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Ifa Divination

Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa

By: William Russell Bascom

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Paperback | 1 March 1991

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"The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought." --Henry Drewal

This landmark study of Ifa, the most important and elaborate system of divination of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, remains a monumental contribution to scholarship in anthropology, folklore, religion, philosophy, linguistics, and African and African-American studies.

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Fortune-Telling & Divination

Preface
Introduction	p. 3
Previous Studies	p. 13
The Apparatus of Ifa Divination and the Preliminary Invocations	p. 26
The Figures of Ifa	p. 40
Specific Alternatives: Ibo and Adimu	p. 51
The Sacrifices and Medicines	p. 60
The Predictions	p. 68
Professional Ethics	p. 76
The Diviners	p. 81
The King's Diviners	p. 91
The System of Belief	p. 103
The Divination Verses	p. 120
The Verses of Ifa	p. 139
References Cited	p. 565
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