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4-Day Market Week
Ọjọ Ẹjẹ
Thunder
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Ọjọ Ẹta
Water
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Ọjọ Ajé
Wealth
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Ọjọ Abámẹta
Earth
Ògún Aug Ogun Festival / August break
🏆 Traditional Rulers
Festival Ọṣun-Ọṣogbo Festival
Who presides Ataoja and Arugba lead procession
Events Grand Ọṣun festival, UNESCO heritage ceremony, River goddess veneration, Pilgrimage to sacred grove
☀️ Farming
Guide August break. Good drying weather. Harvest and store first crops. Plant second maize.
Crops Maize, Cassava
🎣 Fishing
Conditions Excellent
Guide August break. Calm seas. Excellent Atlantic coast fishing. Canoe fishing peak.
Target fish Sea fish, Catfish
📦 Trading
Market guide August break. Good transport weather. Long-distance trading resumes. Cattle market.
Key goods Cattle, Grains, Produce
🚶 Herding
Conditions Transitional
Guide August break. Begin gradual southward movement. Prepare for harvest season — keep off farms.
☀️ Healing
Guide Dry spell — good for drying medicines. Harvest anti-rheumatic and joint medicines.
Herbs Anti-rheumatic herbs, Ẹ̀gbẹ̀
Ritual Harvest health blessing
🌥 Weather
Season August Break
Rainfall 40-80mm
Wind Mixed
Advisory Brief dry spell. Good harvest and travel weather. Do not plant thinking rains ended.
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