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4-Day Market Week
Ọjọ Ẹjẹ
Thunder
💧
Ọjọ Ẹta
Water
💰
Ọjọ Ajé
Wealth
🌍
Ọjọ Abámẹta
Earth
Bélú Nov Dry season onset
📿 Traditional Rulers
Festival Ifá Divination Season
Who presides Araba chief priest leads Ifá rites
Events Annual Ifá consultation, Priests recite Odu corpus, Community direction set
🌱 Farming
Guide Dry season begins. Clear land. Harvest remaining crops. Plant dry-season produce.
Crops Vegetables, Tomato
🤝 Fishing
Conditions Good
Guide Dry season returns. Rivers falling. Fish concentrated. Community fishing events.
Target fish Mixed
🏺 Trading
Market guide Post-harvest trading. Craft and textile production for year-end. Livestock fattening.
Key goods Crafts, Livestock, Textiles
💧 Herding
Conditions Challenging
Guide Dry season. Rivers falling. Move to riverside grazing. Supplement feeding begins.
🏺 Healing
Guide Dry season. Collect bark medicines. Prepare harmattan skin and respiratory remedies.
Herbs Shea butter, Eucalyptus
Ritual Ancestral remembrance
🌤 Weather
Season Dry onset
Rainfall 10-30mm
Wind NE beginning
Advisory Dry season returning. Good travel and trade weather.
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