Ifá - Overview of divination system

Ifá is a system of divination that originated in West Africa among the Yoruba people. The system is also practiced among believers in Lucumi, (sometimes referred to as Santería), Candomblé, and similarly transplanted Orisa'Ifa lineages in the New World. Ifá - Overview of divination system. The Yoruba divination system enabled diviners to invoke Orunmila, the Yoruba deity of wisdom, prophecy and ethics, and Esu (Eshu), who as messenger of the gods lends his authority or Ase to ...

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• Ifá - Overview of divination system
• Ifá - Divination process
• Ifá - Odu Ifa
• Ifá - Vocabulary
• Ifá - Names
• Ifá - Resources

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The Yoruba divination system enabled diviners to invoke Orunmila, the Yoruba deity of wisdom, prophecy and ethics, and Esu (Eshu), who as messenger of the gods lends his authority or Ase to the oracle for the purpose of clarifying the future and providing direction to those seeking guidance. Ifa divination rites provide an avenue of communication between the spirit world and that of the living. Performing Ifa divination is called Dida Owo. Dida Owo is performed only by an initiated priest called a Babalawo (male Ifa priest) or Iyanifa (female Ifa priest), sometimes called Awo. Babalawo ...

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Ifá, Ifá - Overview of divination system, Ifá - Divination process, Ifá - Odu Ifa, Ifá - Vocabulary, Ifá - Names, Ifá - Resources

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Special instruments are used to assist in the divination to transcribe Orunmila's wisdom through the diviner. The items used for divination include: a group of sixteen Ikin, commonly known as palm nuts, which are used to create binary data a vessel for the seeds a divination tray (opon Ifa). a tapper instrument (iroke Ifa) beaded belts for the babalawo to wear. The tray and tapper are used in Ifa divination, a central ritual within Yoruba religion. This tray, ...

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Ifá, Ifá - Overview of divination system, Ifá - Divination process, Ifá - Odu Ifa, Ifá - Vocabulary, Ifá - Names, Ifá - Resources

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There are sixteen major Odu, when combined there are total of 256 Odu that govern all situations, all circumstances and all actions and consequences in life. These form the basic of Yoruba spiritual knowledge and the foundation of all Yoruba divination systems. Interpreting Odu is fairly easy. Where I is an odd count or a "heads" result, and II is an even count or a "tails" result, the sixteen basic patterns and their Yoruba nam ...

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Ifá, Ifá - Overview of divination system, Ifá - Divination process, Ifá - Odu Ifa, Ifá - Vocabulary, Ifá - Names, Ifá - Resources

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