Talk:Ologun

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Supposedly an English term. Caps? SemperBlotto (talk) 08:38, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Apparently so. Some unitalicised quotes from Google Books:


 * 1984, Ẹgba Chieftaincy Handbook
 * An Ologun or Olorogun usually wears an unusually long cap.
 * 1988, Robert Sydney Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba, Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN 9780299116040, page 128
 * The real rulers of the town and its dependencies were the war chiefs, the Ologun, overshadowing the  Ogboni
 * 1996, John Pemberton, Funso S. Afọlayan, Yoruba sacred kingship: "a power like that of the gods", Smithsonian Inst Pr
 * Early in the morning of the third day, known as Osetita, Aworo Ose was led by Chief Oloyin, an Ologun warrior chief, to shrines along the roads leading into Ila.
 * 1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press ISBN 9780253210838, page 112
 * Throughout the next four days the Ologun chiefs feasted one another in accordance with their rank.
 * 1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press ISBN 9780253210838, page 117
 * FIGURE 6.5. The Qrangun-Ila wearing the Ologun crown and greeting Ila&#39;s chiefs during Iwa Ogun.
 * 1998, I. A. Akinjogbin, War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793-1893, Heinemann Educational Books ISBN 9789781294976 [Possibly an error, since Ologun also appears unitalicised]
 * The strength of a state depended on the number and strength of its Ologun war chiefs, while the strength of an Ologun depended on the number of the solider-slaves he commanded.
 * 2009, O. T. A. Omi OLO oshun, Pataki of Orisa and Other Essay's for Lucumi Santeria, Lulu.com ISBN 9780557083763
 * As fate would have it, an Ologun who had been on patrol in the area saw the commotion and rescued the Old man with the cane.
 * All the lower-case versions I found were italicized, and often written with diacritics. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:34, 4 March 2015 (UTC)