A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba. This item is unavailable.
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Language: English
Published by Grossman Publishers, 1973
- Hardcover
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- Title
- A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba
- Author
- Gleason, Judith
- Publisher
- Grossman Publishers
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670590657
- ISBN 13
- 9780670590650
- Item weight
- 16 ounces
- Dimensions
- 9x6x1
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.
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