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Orunmila eriwo ya!

Ifa thoughts and philisopy by Ifálólá Aṣàyẹ́wòró Sanchez.

Ela moyin boru, Ela moyin boye, Ela moyin boshishe!

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...
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