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Ifa as a system of divination

and it is believed to be one of the great ministers Olodumare sent from heaven to earth to perform some specific functions. He transmits and interprets the wishes of Olodumare, who was believed to have created all other deities and prescribed the sacrifices that Esu, the messenger of god must bring to him.

There are many myths about the coming of Orunmila to the earth. It is believed that Orunmila came with other deities such as Obatala, Esu, Ogun and each of the deities was charged with specific functions. For instance, Ogun was dealing with war, iron-related matters while Ifa was charged with the function of using his profound wisdom and knowledge to put the earth in order.

It is with these palm nuts and other sacred objects that Ifa priest uses to find out the will of Orunmila.There is a profound body of materials known as Ifa literary and divination corpus. The corpus falls into two broad divination. The first part is the odu, which had 256 numbers that fall into two parts.

 

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