Sango festival, Oyo (Nigeria)
Nomination: Representative List 2021
EN: Idaasa divinition by Sango Chief Priest, the High Priest and other Sango Devotees, including women and children, to receive the message of the Creator for the Community
EN: Carrier of the Sacred Calabash containing ingredients of Sacrifice for Sango. It is being carried by a virgin or an old woman. In this case, an old women is the carrier.
EN: Sango devotees with bata drummers at the four day worship of Sango in the Alaafin's Palace on Jakuta Day
EN: Bata drummers leading the procession of Sango devotees and the community people amidst drumming, chanting, singing and dancing in honour of Sango
EN: Sango Koso High Priest on his way to Sango Main Shrine at Koso to be embodied by the ancestral Sango Spirit
EN: The High Priest of Sango embodied by the ancestral Sango leaving Sango's main Shrine at Koso on a procession round Oyo Community to bless the people before he ends up at the Palace
EN: The King with government officials and Sango Devotees from Brazil (diaspora) sitting in the Palace Court where Sango Priest come to pay obeisance to come to pay obeisance to him at the grand finale of the Sango Festival
EN: The King leaving the palace court at the approach of the Ancestral Sango Koso
EN: The Ancestral Sango Koso making his way to the palace with people hailing him and paying homage while he blesses them.
EN: The Ancestral Sango being received at the palace of the Alaafin by the latter most senior wife, Iya Ile Koto.
