Ifa Orisha
Yoruba Babalawo (Father
of Mysteries) in Nigeria
Cuban Lucumí priestess reading
tarot with a deck of cards
Hand of Santeria with Ide
Orula In The Americas
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Ifa Orisha | Yoruba Babalawo (Father of Mysteries) in Nigeria |
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Cuban Lucumí priestess reading tarot with a deck of cards | Hand of Santeria with Ide Orula In The Americas |
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NEW WORLD PRACTICE Yoruba religion in the Americas is a hybrid of African and European culture ideology, images and practice. On the one hand Yoruba eighteenth language, no longer spoken in Nigeria, remains in tact in the Americas; on the island of Cuba to be precise, but every imaginable corruption occurs in the religious practice. Priest and Santeria use deck of cards, candles, dominoes and Catholic Saints as part of the practice. © C L C |
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 Opon Ifa with Figure Study |  Opon Ifa with woodcarving Iconography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ORISHA IFA Practiced among the Yoruba, Ifa divination relies on a complex system of signs, compiled in a literary corpus that [is] interpreted by a diviner [babalawo/father of mysteries] to guide important personal or collective decisions. The literary corpus is a treasury of knowledge concerning Yoruba history, philosophy, medicine and mythology. © Google FEATURES OF OPON IFA “IFA’S BOWL” Yoruba use both figurative and iconography in their woodcarvings. They use a separate iconography for wood which is totally different for the most part from iconography used in other art media; art disciplines. The babalawo uses the bottom of the bowl for readings. The bowl is always turned upside down. If you turn the bowl right-side up you will see a small-carved impression where the inside used to be. Over the centuries since the inside of the bowl was not in use the artists pushed the bowl flat. ORISHA Yoruba religion consists of Orisha in the form of cultural heroes that have been deified representing different principles of life and forces of nature. These forces of nature are referred to as orisha. Persons and collectives are practitioners and members orisha depending on their fate in life. For example every one is a member of ori fore it is our brain we have to depend in this life. Ori is both a personal and collective orisha because we collectively have to use it and personal because we each use it to find our destiny. Ogun is the orisha of iron. For example: blacksmiths, woodcarvers and truck drivers are members of ogun because they use iron in their work. Ogun is example one’s personal orisha; however if by chance you were born and raised in the town of Ila Orangun then your collective orisha would be Ogun because Ogun the cultural hero lived there. One example of life principle is Legba the crossroads in life. Baba Legba is the father of those crossroads. © Claude Lockhart Clark Oct. 22, 2019 |
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 Two Ifa Iroke | Beaded Babalawo Ifa Orunmila Iroke Irofa Divination Tapper |
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 Opele Ifa on an Opon |  Ire and Ibe Cowries |
 Irin Ifa |  Esu Messenger |
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 Agere Ifa |  Esu Messenger |
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 Yoruba Opon Igede Ifa |  Yoruba Opon Igebe Ifa Devination Supplies Chest |
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 Yoruba Opon Igede Ifa |  Inside Compartments |
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