Oral Traditions (Scriptures and Texts)

Scriptures that are carried by memory and recitation rather than by a written text, such as the Ifa literary corpus of the Yoruba, with its sixteen major books of verses. An entry belongs here when its article presents a body of sacred verse that is transmitted orally. The group page lists the texts of one canon or kind together so that a reader can see which works a tradition gathers under a single head.