Ifá is a divination system originating from Yorubaland in West Africa. It originates within the traditional religion of the Yoruba people although is...

language. It is a spiritual title that denotes a high priest of the Ifá oracle. Ifá is a divination system that represents the teachings of the Òrìṣà Ọrunmila...

is coined. Ranodu instructed Senlu consult Ifa oracle to know if they can stay at the place and Ifa oracle granted their request, this finally marked...

the present, and influences the future through the Ifa divination system, which is practised by oracle priests called Babalawos. Olorun is one of the principal...

ISBN 0-582-60803-1. Ifaloju (February 2011). "Odù-Ifá Iwòrì Méjì; Ifá speaks on Righteousness". Ifa Speaks... S.S. Popoola, Ifa Dida, Library, INC. Retrieved 8 April...

safe to embrace his family. Prince Gbadebo being an Ifa priest, presented his newborn to his Ifa Oracle demanding to know what the future holds for the new...

Ajaiye was barren. After they settled in Isheri, Olofin consulted the Ifa oracle where they were told to proceed to a place where there was salt water...

have referred to Ifá merely as the "great consulting oracle" as opposed to a god or a deity, without any divine connotations. Opon Ifá are typically made...

An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future...

of their ancestors, the spirit to be worshipped is solely decided by Ifa Oracle. Egungun masquerades are male-dominated within the performance aspect...

mathematics (around 1550 BC), Indian mathematics (around 800 BC and later), the Ifa Oracle (around 500 BC), Greek mathematics (around 240 BC), and Arabic mathematics...

Oduduwa as being the wife of Obatala is presented in Odu Ifa Osa Meji, a verse of the Ifa oracle. In this Odu, Obatala discovers the secret of his wife...

and all living things." Yemoja could not have children and consulted an Ifa oracle, who advised her to offer sacrifices and to dance with wooden images on...

slaves. Olakanmi, with the advice of the “Ifa Oracle,” moved southeast of old Oyo with his contingent. This Ifa Oracle had earlier instructed Olakanmi to settle...

area bounded with water based on the instruction/advised given by the Ifa oracle before the commencement of the journey., He settled at the present town...

centuries. The head of the council of Oyo Mesi, the Bashorun, consulted the Ifa oracle before the royal succession for approval from the gods. New alaafins of...

town was derived from his name called Uraka's popoka stick. At Poka, the Ifa oracle was further consulted for direction which led Uraka to proceed and after...

initiated into Ifá (ikin divination), became a babalawo (priest) of Orunmila, and was renamed Fátúmbí ("he who is reborn through the Ifá oracle"). Veger's...

As it was the practice in those days, an ifa (oracle) was consulted to determine why he cried so much. The ifa advised his parents to make a miniature...

ara e sile, I.e Opo rejected its people) with the help and guidance of Ifa Oracle. Ipokia came to be a Local Government in 1996 carved from formally known...

The Ifa Festival is a seven-day festival that takes place every year on the first Saturday in June. Ifa (also known as Orunmila) is a deity oracle and...

religious hierarchy of priests and priestesses that dates to 800–1000 CE. Ifá Oracle priests and priestesses bear the titles Babalawo and Iyanifa respectively...

confirmation, the Eletu returns to his sanctuary where he consults the Ifa Oracle with names of all of the eligible males from the Lagos Ruling Houses in...

Lajamisan and the emergence of Obaleo from the Lajamisan dynasty. The role of Ifa oracle in guiding the people from Ile-Ife to her current day location cannot...

qualities and herbal attributes and sometimes interwoven into one another. Ifá has been said to also play an important role towards achieving the end product...

the Ifa oracle only state that the Oore was also an Ifa follower, whereas the same Ifa section mentions that Ado-Ekiti is the home (or abode) of Ifa, which...

founded the town Ikire-ile in Osun State”. After consultations with the Ifá oracle, he was directed to face the direction of the place where Ejigbo is today...

00234.x. JSTOR 3804208. Holbraad, Martin (2012). "Truth Beyond Doubt: Ifá Oracles in Havana". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 2 (1): 81–109. doi:10...

divination. The Yoruba diviner might use sixteen cowrie-shells instead of the Ifa oracle, or sixteen palm nuts. According to the Yoruba tribe, men and women are...

not determined by birth order but by Kingmakers and consultation of the Ifa Oracle, Osinlokun and his followers mounted opposition to Adele's kingship. Adele's...