Monday, February 9, 2009

Heretical treatise on hierarchy within the Orisa priesthood

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, This week I was in Rome, and while sitting at a Papal audience, I began to contemplate what it means to be a priest, ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Iyanifa, an Ode Remo perspective...

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, Clearly one of the "hot" topics in the Ifa community both Traditional Yoruba and Lucumi, is the topic of Iy...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Letra del Año / Odun Ifa what and why?

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Aboru, Aboye, Aboshishe It's the time of year when we see much of the Lucumi world alight with the question, "Do you know what the ...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Contemplation, meditation and the Ifa in our everyday lives...

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, I was recently approached by a reader and asked to speak about how Orisa/Ifa fit in our everyday lives, as opposed to...
Monday, December 8, 2008

Oriki Ori

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, As I've mentioned in the past, Oriki are praise poetry used when greeting Orisa, Egun, etc (see my Oriki Orunmila...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Does d'afa (Ifa divination) lie?

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Aboru Aboye Aboshishe, I've been asked many times if Ifa "lies" or is incorrect. So many times, that I decided to post my thou...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The path of initiation in Ifa: Lucumi and Traditional Yoruba

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Aboru aboye aboshishe, After a few conversations including a longer one with my Oluwo in Nigeria, I thought that it would be quite useful to...