1. Oyeronke Olajubu, “Seeing through a Woman’s Eye: Yorùbá Religious Tradition and Gender Relations,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 20, no. 1 (2004): 43.
2. For a discussion of the role of Ato, a female official in the egungun cult, see S. O. Babayemi, Egungun among the OYó Yorùbá (Ibadan: Board Publication Limited, 1980).
3. Oyèrónke Oyěwùmí, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
4. Wande Abimbola, Ifá: An Exposition of Ifá Literary Corpus (Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1976), 27.
5. Rowland Abiodun, “Hidden Power: Osun, the Seventeenth Odù,” in OṢun across the Waters: A Yorùbá Goddess in Africa and the Americans, ed. Joseph M. and Mei-Mei Sanford Murphy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 16–17.