Babaaláwo or Babalawo in West Africa (Babalao in Caribbean and South American Spanish and Babalaô in Brazilian Portuguese) literally means "father of secrets"...

Ifá is organised as an initiatory tradition, with an initiate called a babaláwo or bokɔnɔ. Traditionally, these are all-male, although women have been...

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...

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...

Awo may refer to: Awo, Nigeria Babalawo Iyalawo AWO (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Awo. If an internal...

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...

the Yoruba title for Mother of mysteries & the female equivalent of a Babalawo. While Iyaláwo and Ìyánífá are often used interchangeably, the terms have...

Akose Babalawo prepares spiritual medicines recipes received from ancestral spirits for healing and removal of curses...

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...

Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

their capacity as diviners. Many santeros are also babalawos, although it is not uncommon for babalawos to perceive themselves as being superior to most...

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...

Meiji University, became the first Japanese person to be initiated as a babalawo in 2013. Abimbola, Kola (2005). Yoruba Culture: A Philosophical Account...

use oracles. Among the related Yoruba peoples of the same country, the Babalawos (and their female counterparts, the Iyanifas) serve collectively as the...

Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...

and Explanation)". orisa.com.ng. Retrieved 30 November 2023. Aworeni, Babalawo. "The Araba Agbaya: The Akudaaya". orishada.com. Retrieved 30 November...

1999), Colombian footballer Remigio Lucumí (1811/1816 – 1905), Afro-Cuban babalawo (Yoruba priest) Sebastián Rincón Lucumí (b. 1994), Colombian footballer...

religious leaders in addition to being politico-ceremonial monarchs. Odigba Babalawo Eso Ikoyi Nigerian chieftaincy Nigerian traditional rulers Oba of Benin...

Aṣẹ Ayagunna Cosmology Egbere Irunmọlẹ Ifá Ori Oriṣa Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi...