Talk:Ologun
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Supposedly an English term. Caps? SemperBlotto (talk) 08:38, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
- Apparently so. Some unitalicised quotes from Google Books:
- 1984, Ẹgba Chieftaincy Handbook
- An Ologun or Olorogun usually wears an unusually long cap.
- 1988, Robert Sydney Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba, Univ of Wisconsin Press →ISBN, page 128
- The real rulers of the town and its dependencies were the war chiefs, the Ologun, overshadowing the Ogboni
- 1996, John Pemberton, Funso S. Afọlayan, Yoruba sacred kingship: "a power like that of the gods", Smithsonian Inst Pr
- Early in the morning of the third day, known as Osetita, Aworo Ose was led by Chief Oloyin, an Ologun warrior chief, to shrines along the roads leading into Ila.
- 1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press →ISBN, page 112
- Throughout the next four days the Ologun chiefs feasted one another in accordance with their rank.
- 1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press →ISBN, page 117
- FIGURE 6.5. The Qrangun-Ila wearing the Ologun crown and greeting Ila's chiefs during Iwa Ogun.
- 1998, I. A. Akinjogbin, War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793-1893, Heinemann Educational Books →ISBN [Possibly an error, since Ologun also appears unitalicised]
- The strength of a state depended on the number and strength of its Ologun war chiefs, while the strength of an Ologun depended on the number of the solider-slaves he commanded.
- 2009, O. T. A. Omi OLO oshun, Pataki of Orisa and Other Essay's for Lucumi Santeria, Lulu.com →ISBN
- As fate would have it, an Ologun who had been on patrol in the area saw the commotion and rescued the Old man with the cane.
- All the lower-case versions I found were italicized, and often written with diacritics. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
- Fair enough. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:34, 4 March 2015 (UTC)