The paper hopes to focus on the essence of Sàngó as a Yoruba deity, its worship and the continuity of its tradition in Òyó, the home base of its Nigerian Yorùbá worshippers. Furthermore, the paper will elaborate on answers to the following three key research questions: what does Sàngó stand for in Yorubaland? How is Sàngó worshipped in Oyo? What are the internal continuity mechanisms responsible for the survival of Sàngó worship in Oyo? The paper hopes to go beyond spiritual essence of Sàngó; to applying his teachings to mundane problems of social order and control. Most of the illustrations in the paper will be drawn from past studies on Yoruba religion and spirituality, Oyo practitioners' accounts of Sàngó tradition, indigenous philosophies coded in Ifá literary corpus, and of cause, the author's priesthood experiences.

The paper presented a Yoruba indigenous calendar that has been in existence more than 9th millennium BC when the first man appeared on earth in Africa. The result of the study shows that the Yoruba calendar like all other ancient calendars (Babylonian, Hindu, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew and Roman) is lunar base. It was further revealed that unlike Roman time reckoning where seven days make a week, Yoruba week is made up of four cyclic days and seven of such weeks could be found in one moon cycle. Part of the findings also show that just like in Roman calendar which is still operating in this latest Gregorian version where Sunday through Saturday are named after Roman gods, Yoruba week days are also dedicated to Yoruba deities; Ogun, Sango, Obatala and Orunmila. All the information gathered were analyzed and presented in calendar format. The calendar generated from this study was used to explain time of farm operations, Yoruba marketing system and few traditional festival schedules. It is highly recommended that if further developed could serve as Yoruba indigenous contribution to world knowledge.