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A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba

hardcover – January 1, 1973
by Gleason, Judith with Awotunde Aworinde and John Olaniyi Ogundipe
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ISBN-13: 9780670590650 ISBN-10: 0670590657
Publisher
Grossman Publishers
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 1973
Weight
1.0 lbs
Dimensions
0.00×0.00×0.00 cm

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A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba by Gleason, Judith with Awotunde Aworinde and John Olaniyi Ogundipe. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670590650.

Ifa, teacher of gods and men, is the oracle of the Yoruba, an important West African people. Like I Ching, Ifa is a system of divination based on the casting of sacred objects to produce a set of signs - signs (hexagrams) in I Ching, "odus" in Ifa. But unlike the codified Chinese system, Ifa is an oral tradition transmitted and revealed only by its priests in recitations, each of which is unique.