A collection of odu ifa for those interested in learning about african spirituality. Ifa divination for a client in my shrine, benin city, nigeria. Interpretation of sixteen major odu ifa oju odu merindinlogun pt 4posted by admin. Adding again a single line and double line to the trigrams then produces the 16 tetragrams. These 16 tetragrams represent the 16 fractals or fractions of light reflected on the moon by the sun. Underneath every cast with sixteen cowries aka dilogun aka owo merindinlogun the diviner can read two double odu ifa.
Odu eji ogbe in like manner, we find a parallel in the prayer and supplications of a. Sixteen mythological stories of ifa ita merindinlogun. Cowrie shell divination hoodoo conjurepdf generated using the open source mwlib toolkit cowrie shell divination contents articles if 1 merindinlogun 7 references 256 chapters odu of ifa. Ifa is a pragmatic spiritual science and study of how things come into existence codified a millennia ago by orunmila bara agboniregun god of wisdom. The language of cowrieshells cowrieshells divination refers to several distinct forms of divination using cowrieshells that are part of the rituals and religious beliefs of certain religions.
Sixteen mythological stories of ifa itan ifa mrindinlogun. There are sixteen major odu books in the odu ifa literary corpus. This write up was compiled by omo awo rodriguez ifatomi an apprentice under. He did extra ordinary works during his life time on earth. He made the blind to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the barren to conceive etc. Iwe odu ifa contains four verses of ogbe oyeku, the first. The merindinlogun is the primary oracle used by the orisha priest.
Ifa divination trays from isaleoyo openedition journals. These are powerful, fascinating stories which are hundreds of years old, yet. The 16 mother odus as universal ifa ayele kumari, phd. It is through the knowledge of these energies, called odu ifa.
The development of the 16 tetragrams universal ifa. The imaginative, literary character of merindinlogun poetry and ese ifa. Though bestdocumented in west africa as well as in afroamerican religions, such as santeria, candomble, and umbanda cowrieshell divination has also been recorded in other regions, notably east. Oju odu merindinlogun pdf free ebook download sun, 12 feb 2017 21. Search results images for ifa divination tools guided search filters ifa opele african religion yoruba spiritual opon ifa nigeria ifa oracle ikin ifa orunmila.
He was extremely kind, generous, nice, simple but very powerful. The ifa divination system, which makes use of an extensive corpus of texts, is practised among yoruba communities. Inscribing or marking odu on the opon ifa opon ifa. The ifa religion teaches us, through a study of odu, that it was. In this book there are sixteen stories from the two hundred and fifty six 256 odu ifa. Secrets of the odus of ifa 3 when this odu is seen, the clients body is cleansed with anil bluecolored mineral balls mixed with water and that water is also thrown onto the floor, is left there for a short while, and finally, it is mopped up. When combined there are total of 256 odu to solve all problems, situations, circumstances. While casting the oracle is restricted to initiates, noninitiates and initiates alike may use this as a study guide on the 16 odu, the sacred scriptures of the ifa religion.