Ife was the first of all Yoruba cities. ... The name Yoruba was applied to all these linguistically and culturally related peoples by their northern neighbors, the Hausas. ... A common Yoruba belief system dominated the region from the Niger, where it flows in an easterly direction, all the way to the Gulf of Guinea in the south. ... In all of these places mentioned above, the pantheon of major Yoruba deities has survived virtually intact, along with a complex of rites, beliefs, music, dances and myths of Yoruba origin. ...

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