RE: Circumstances around a new born baby and their Ephemeral Names in Yoruba land
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Interesting read. I think one of the reasons these kinds of names are not common again is that babies a birthed at the hospital mainly nowadays, unlike in the olden days when they are usually given birth to at home or local herbalist. Do modern-day Doctors care about all these things? I guess no. There is also another name, 'Oke', I think it is usually when babies are given birth to enclosed in some form of net. In the olden days, they applied palm oil to remove the net. I don't know if such still occurs today. I've not heard of it in modern settings.
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Your points are all valid. However, only a senior man like you could remember the so called "OKE", in fact I didn't remember when writing this treatise.
I think it's hightime we compiled a list of those names for future references.
I appreciate your contribution to rekindle our forgotten Ephemeral names!