Babaaláwo or Babalawo in West Africa (Babalao in Caribbean and South American Spanish and Babalaô in Brazilian Portuguese) literally means "father of secrets"...
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Orisha of Wisdom, knowledge, and Divination, is the creator of Ifá and Babalawo concept. He is a high priest of Ifá. Following the categories developed...
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Pierre Verger (category Babalawos)
in Salvador, Brazil) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifà) who devoted most of his life to the study of the...
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Awo may refer to: Awo, Nigeria Babalawo Iyalawo AWO (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Awo. If an internal...
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Opele (category Babalawos)
African and Afro-American religions, notably in Ifá and Yoruba tradition. A Babalawo (diviner) uses the Opele in order to communicate with the deity of wisdom/knowledge...
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the Yoruba title for Mother of mysteries & the female equivalent of a Babalawo. While Iyaláwo and Ìyánífá are often used interchangeably, the terms have...
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Akose Babalawo prepares spiritual medicines recipes received from ancestral spirits for healing and removal of curses...
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oracles made up by 16 symbols with 256 = 16 x 16. An initiated priest, or Babalawo, who had memorized oracles, would request sacrifice from consulting clients...
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Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...
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(co-godfather). A santero, aside from his co-godparents, may have an oluo (babalawo, initiate of ifa) who consults him with an ekuele (divining chain). There...
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that dates to AD 800–1000. Ifá priests and priestesses bear the titles Babalawo for men and Iyanifa for women. Priests and priestesses of the varied Orisha...
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Opon Ifá (category Babalawos)
trays, as they are meant to praise and acknowledge the noble work of the Babalawo (diviners). The etymology of the term Ifá, however, has been a subject...
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she was given the name Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi by a Yoruba Babalawo during a naming ceremony. In 1969, she left the Panthers and dropped out...
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Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...
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Gabriel García Márquez". INTERAÇÕES: Cultura e Comunidade. 7 (12): 69–90. Babalawo, Santeria's High Priests: Fathers of the Secrets in Afro-Cuban Ifa, Por...
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Remigio Herrera (category Babalawos)
Ño Remigio Herrera Adeshina Obara Meyi (1811/1816 – 1905) was a babalawo (Yoruba priest) recognized for being, along with his mentor Carlos Adé Ño Bí (birth...
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Miguel Cabrera (category Babalawos)
Cabrera is both a Catholic and a practitioner of Santería. He became a babalawo in the 2006 offseason. His wife is named Rosangel, and they have two daughters...
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the Ifa divination system, which is practised by oracle priests called Babalawos. Olorun is one of the principal manifestations of the Supreme God of the...
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and people. In addition to taking the essential herbs indicated by the Babalawo, women who seek to become pregnant could also be instructed to offer food...
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speeches from Nelson Mandela, and Fela Kuti songs; talked to a Yoruba Babalawo; trained in Dambe, Capoeira Angola, and Zulu stick fighting; and took a...
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their capacity as diviners. Many santeros are also babalawos, although it is not uncommon for babalawos to perceive themselves as being superior to most...
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and the society to which they belong. The parents therefore commission a babalawo to carve a wooden Ibeji to represent the deceased twin, and the parents...
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Meiji University, became the first Japanese person to be initiated as a babalawo in 2013. Abimbola, Kola (2005). Yoruba Culture: A Philosophical Account...
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use oracles. Among the related Yoruba peoples of the same country, the Babalawos (and their female counterparts, the Iyanifas) serve collectively as the...
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Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...
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and Explanation)". orisa.com.ng. Retrieved 30 November 2023. Aworeni, Babalawo. "The Araba Agbaya: The Akudaaya". orishada.com. Retrieved 30 November...
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1999), Colombian footballer Remigio Lucumí (1811/1816 – 1905), Afro-Cuban babalawo (Yoruba priest) Sebastián Rincón Lucumí (b. 1994), Colombian footballer...
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religious leaders in addition to being politico-ceremonial monarchs. Odigba Babalawo Eso Ikoyi Nigerian chieftaincy Nigerian traditional rulers Oba of Benin...
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Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...
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