DÁFÁ Journal
A comparative exposition across three informants: Àwíṣẹ Awo Àgbáyé, Chief Wándé Abímbọ́lá · Chief Ayọ̀ Salami · Olóyè Ifálérè Ọdẹgbẹmí Ọdẹgbọlá II Abọrú Abọyè. The fourth and final part on Òyèkú Méjì: the Ayùnrẹ́ tree, the defeat of Death, and what the three ẹsẹ align on. Death has been pulling down
DÁFÁ Journal
A comparative exposition across three informants: Àwíṣẹ Awo Àgbáyé, Chief Wándé Abímbọ́lá · Chief Ayọ̀ Salami · Olóyè Ifálérè Ọdẹgbẹmí Ọdẹgbọlá II Abọrú Abọyè. The third of four parts on Òyèkú Méjì, turning from cosmic identity to the founding narrative: ancestral authority, veneration, and the journey to Àró. The founding narrative
DÁFÁ Journal
A comparative exposition across three informants: Àwíṣẹ Awo Àgbáyé, Chief Wándé Abímbọ́lá · Chief Ayọ̀ Salami · Olóyè Ifálérè Ọdẹgbẹmí Ọdẹgbọlá II Abọrú Abọyè. The second of four parts on Òyèkú Méjì. Where Part I read the Odù through the household, this part turns to its cosmic identity: death and ancestry.
DÁFÁ Journal
A comparative exposition across three informants: Àwíṣẹ Awo Àgbáyé, Chief Wándé Abímbọ́lá · Chief Ayọ̀ Salami · Olóyè Ifálérè Ọdẹgbẹmí Ọdẹgbọlá II Abọrú Abọyè. The first Odù established the earth. The second spoke primarily of women and death, of the àṣẹ women carry, and how that àṣẹ manifests when the conditions
DÁFÁ Journal
Ifá demanded more of its specialists than any oral tradition in human history.