Oranyan

Oranyan Omoluabi, King of the Yoruba, also known as Oranmiyan, was a Yoruba king from the kingdom of Ile-Ife and heir to Oduduwa.^[1] According to Yoruba history, he founded Oyo at around the year 1170 and one of his children, Eweka I, went on to become the first Oba of the Benin Empire. Following the Oba's death, his family is fabled to have erected the miniature obelisk known as the 'Staff of Oranmiyan' at the place where their father died. Radiocarbon tests however show this miniature obelisk was erected centuries before during the "classical" Ife period.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Ogumefu, M. I (1929). "The Staff of Oranyan". Yoruba Legends. Internet Sacred Text Archive. pp. 46. http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl27.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-21.