Sunday, December 9, 2007

The ever expanding corpus of wisdom we call Ifa

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The ever expanding corpus of wisdom we call Ifa. We should start this conversation with a well known mantra I've repeated many times: Wi...
Monday, December 3, 2007

Sacred Odu Ifa texts and rituals, what is our responsibility?

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, In a recent dialog, I was confronted with non-Ifa priests (though priests of other Orisa) who condoned the reading of...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Discourse on meaning and symbology in the Ifa Divination System

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I would like to start this discourse with a few simple questions: If one practices Ifa, does one have to believe in the creation stories and...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Odu Ifa and cultural relativism

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I decided to write on the topic of Odu and cultural relativism because I think it is an interesting and important concept and because it lea...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Who receives Ebo? What happens?

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In response to the question once posed, Who receives Ebo? What happens? I pose this interpretation. To whom does one offer ebo? When consu...
Thursday, August 9, 2007

who's on first, what's on second . . . Which Orisa is most important?

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, Someone had posted a piece citing how they believed that Orunmila was above other Orisa, and so I thought I would cla...
Saturday, August 4, 2007

Power and the priesthood

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Power and the priesthood: Ogbe sa: Ogbe sa re le Ogbe sa r'oko Dia fun Eni0Aye kan Dia fun Eni Aye Nfe A bu fun S(h)eere S(h)eere o, S(h...