Cowrie-shell divination refers to several distinct forms of divination using cowrie shells that are part of the rituals and religious beliefs of certain...

Cowrie or cowry (pl. cowries) is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae. Cowrie shells have held cultural,...

settlers. The shell is still used in divination rituals in some African religions. In the State of Kerala, in India, special money cowrie shells (which are...

ISBN 9781675098. Verger, Pierre (1989). Dílógún: Brazilian Tales of Yorùbá Divination Discovered in Bahia. Nigeria: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization...

spiritual title that denotes a high priest of the Ifá oracle. Ifá is a divination system that represents the teachings of the òrìṣà Ọrunmila, the òrìṣà...

Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi divination Osanyin staff Variants African Theological...

Divination bones (Sotho-Tswana languages: ditaola, isiZulu: amathambo) are pieces of bones and vertebrae, carved ivory dice and cowrie shells used for...

Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi divination Osanyin staff Variants African Theological...

slaves carried with them various religious customs, including a trance and divination system for communicating with their ancestors and spirits, animal sacrifice...

motherhood and twins. Most Yoruba myths of origin can be found in the divination narratives known as Odu Ifa. There are approximately 256 Odu Ifa, each...

Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi divination Osanyin staff Variants African Theological...

Beliefs & Sacrificial Rites. ISBN 0-9638787-3-5 William Bascom, Sixteen Cowries. Lydia Cabrera, El Monte: Igbo-Nfinda, Ewe Orisha/Vititi Nfinda. ISBN 0-89729-009-7...

honour. Through divination, however, an ancestor might request a new costume altogether. The owner and the patron, the priest of divination, the tailor,...

geomancy patterns generated with palm nuts, opele, cowrie shells, etc. that refer to Ifa divination texts; a collection of Odu Ifa verses iridology: by...

manifest in any divination sign. In cowrie-shell divination (Dilogun), he is also strongly associated with the sign called Metanlá (13 cowries). There are...

Aunts") founded the first Candomblé terreiros, introduced the cowrie-shell divination and disseminated the mysteries of the African-based religions of...

Bascom: Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa ISBN 0-253-20638-3 William R. Bascom: Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa...

or Odù, which are divided into verses. It is closely related to the divination system of the Yorùbá religion, Ifá. The verses contain proverbs, stories...

of sorrow. She is said to be able to cure infertility in women, and cowrie shells represent her wealth. She does not easily lose her temper, but when...

(2025 is the 10,067th year of Yoruba culture). Ọrúnmilà / Ifá = Òrìṣà of Divination and custodian of the Ifá. It includes a Mass gathering of the Yoruba in...

Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi divination Osanyin staff Variants African Theological...

verses are a corpus used for the purposes of divination. The Yoruba diviner might use sixteen cowrie-shells instead of the Ifa oracle, or sixteen palm nuts...

a number of African divination methods using sixteen basic figures have been studied, including Yoruba Ifá cowrie-shell divination, also known by its Fon...

left-handed chank shell (one that coils to the left) is sacred to Vishnu, as well. The chank shell also plays an important role in Buddhism. Cowries have often...

half the time over many casts), to naturally-occurring objects like cowrie shells which may produce a range of unbalanced results depending upon the species...

elemental powers, channeling otherworldly beings, and performing divination with cowrie shells. Malidoma Patrice Somé Author and shaman Sobonfu Somé (author...

cowrie shells, and is considered more complex in that it requires a knowledge of the patakie stories. Dilogún typically involves a set of 21 cowrie shells...

and spiritualism, such as church service, studying the Bible, cowrie-shell divination, rosary holding, Anitta venetrating in a terreiro, and receiving...

Practices Ajere Ifa Babalawo/Iyalawo Cowrie-shell divination Egungun Epa mask Gẹlẹdẹ Letra del año Obi divination Osanyin staff Variants African Theological...

Africa. The artifacts included a divining stick, a walking stick, and cowrie shells. The wealthy enslaver Bennehan family owned Stagville Plantation; they...