- Babaaláwo or
Babalawo in West
Africa (Babalao in
Caribbean and
South American Spanish and Babalaô in
Brazilian Portuguese)
literally means "father of secrets...
- Ifá is
organised as an
initiatory tradition, with an
initiate called a
babaláwo or bokɔnɔ. Traditionally,
these are all-male,
although women have been...
-
Orisha of Wisdom, knowledge, and Divination, is the
creator of Ifá and
Babalawo concept. He is a high
priest of Ifá.
Following the
categories developed...
- Awo may
refer to: Awo,
Nigeria Babalawo Iyalawo AWO (disambiguation) This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated with the
title Awo. If an internal...
- in Salvador, Brazil) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and
babalawo (Yoruba
priest of Ifà) who
devoted most of his life to the
study of the...
-
African and Afro-American religions,
notably in Ifá and
Yoruba tradition. A
Babalawo (diviner) uses the
Opele in
order to
communicate with the
deity of wisdom/knowledge...
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Akose Babalawo prepares spiritual medicines recipes received from
ancestral spirits for
healing and
removal of curses...
-
oracles made up by 16
symbols with 256 = 16 x 16. An
initiated priest, or
Babalawo, who had
memorized oracles,
would request sacrifice from
consulting clients...
- and people. In
addition to
taking the
essential herbs indicated by the
Babalawo,
women who s**** to
become pregnant could also be
instructed to
offer food...
-
revealed oracular texts originally p****ed down
through oral
tradition among babalawos. It is
traditionally divided into 256 sections, or Odu,
which are divided...
