The Authentic Orthography
Progenitor, Ile-Ife, First King · Creator of the earth; primordial ancestor of the Yoruba
Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison
Odùduwà
The name survives only in scholarly transliteration. Odùduwà is the standard Yoruba romanisation, documented in academic sources — “Creator of the earth; primordial ancestor of the Yoruba”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions preserve distinctions lost in plain ASCII.
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
oduduwa
Reduced to plain oduduwa, the name loses everything that made it specific: original diacritics and script distinctions. What remains is an ASCII string that machines can parse but that no longer speaks with its original voice.
Odùduwà
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII flattened. Odùduwà restores original diacritics and script distinctions, returning the name to its original written dignity. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
Odùduwà.com → xn--odduw-vqa5o.com
The non-ASCII characters in Odùduwà are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Odùduwà.
How Odùduwà is preserved in writing
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
Contribute scholarly provenance →Owned, ideal, and ASCII forms of Odùduwà
Odùduwà
The full Unicode restoration. odùduwà.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
oduduwa
The plain ASCII fallback — what DNS and legacy systems see.
How Odùduwà was spoken
Progenitor, Ile-Ife, First King
Odùduwà belongs to the Yoruba tradition, where it is associated with progenitor, ile-ife, first king.
The central domain of Odùduwà in the yoruba tradition.
The name signifies "Creator of the earth; primordial ancestor of the Yoruba".
The restoration Odùduwà recovers what plain ASCII oduduwa flattens.
Attested in the sources as —.
Stories of Odùduwà
The stories of Odùduwà circulate within the Yoruba corpus, where the figure embodies progenitor, ile-ife, first king.
Odùduwà is attested in the canonical Yoruba sources as a figure associated with progenitor, ile-ife, first king.
The name means "Creator of the earth; primordial ancestor of the Yoruba" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.
Odùduwà embodies progenitor, ile-ife, first king in the Yoruba imagination. The name's restoration is not merely cosmetic: it recovers the stress, length, and script that make the figure recognizable in the source tradition.
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