Editing Oduduwa (section)

===Crowns of Oduduwa===
{{Main|Oranyan}}
{{Main|Moremi Ajasoro}}
Long after the era of Oduduwa and Obatala, the next major progression of events were captured in the figure of [[Ọranyan]] (Ọ̀rànmíyàn).{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=115}} In tradition, Oranyan was a ''son of Ogun'',{{sfn|Wyndham|1921|p=45}} and the youngest of Oduduwa's grandsons.{{sfn|Johnson|1921|p=8}} He is said to have been the most war-like Yoruba prince out of all his contemporaries,{{sfn|Peter M. Rose|2004|p=112}} and certainly one of the most adventurous of the historical princes. Ife was under constant raids by disassociated factions of the previous Ugbo groups, but upon learning their secrets from ''Mọremí'', Oranyan is said to have brought an end to their brigandry, and along with Moremi, brought a long period of peace to Ife.{{sfn|Wyndham|1921|p=45, 46}}

Ife enjoyed remarkable royal and technological developments throughout its classical period. It became the largest emporium for religious, economic, and political advancement in the region, and attracted traders from all over West Africa who sought its exclusive offerings.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=104, 105}} As Ife's renown increased, the eminence of the Oduduwa dynasty grew to the extent that the possession of a "crown of Oduduwa" projected the ability to guarantee security through cultural, military, and political power for migrating groups.{{sfn|Adebayo|2018|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vPdKDwAAQBAJ&dq=crown+of+oduduwa&pg=PT21 page 21]}}

Oranyan spread the consolidated model of Ife kingship to many parts of the Yoruba world through his own offspring, notably establishing the two most prominent regional dynasties after Ife in the [[Oyo Empire]], and the [[Benin kingdom]]. Some traditions from Ado Ekiti and other Yoruba kingdoms also associate part of their royal Ife origins with figures who accompanied Oranyan's initial entourage out of Ife.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=144}} Oranyan later returned home, to claim Ife's crown of Oduduwa.{{sfn|Wyndham|1921|p=47}}