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I found no indication in the given sources that the high child-mortality rate was the reason they perform a ritual to restore the balance of dead twins’ souls. I suspect that given the importance of twins, they’d perform the ritual even if children didn’t die so often. However, Leroy
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My impression is that the statue’s head is big not because the artist is required to make it that way, but because that’s simply the way
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I've edited this article, but since all I know of Yoruba twins is what I've learned from this article and the linked sources, there are limits to what I can do. Here are some issues I'd like to see someone address:
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Apparently, Yoruba attitudes toward twins have changed since ancient times. Why? What’s different in Yoruba society now? Why haven’t other
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The lead says Yoruba twins are important. Two paragraphs later, it claims the “priest has a lot of power when it comes to twins” after just one example of that power. These are
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the readers that things are important or that priests are powerful, the article should give examples of those claims and let the readers reach those conclusions for themselves.
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