In Yorubaland, divination gives priests unreserved access to the teachings of Orunmila. This odu corpus emerges as the leading documentation on the Ifá tradition to become a historical legacy. Orunmila came to establish an oral literary corpus incorporating stories and experiences of priests and their clients along with the results. The Alado, in turn, initiated the priests of Oyo and that was how Ifá came to be in the Oyo empire. She initiated the Alado of Ato and conferred on him the rites to initiate others. According to the book The History of the Yorubas from the Earliest of Times to the British Protectorate (1921) by Nigerian historian Samuel Johnson and Obadiah Johnson, it was Arugba, the mother of Onibogi, the 8th Alaafin of Oyo who introduced Oyo to Ifá in the late 1400s. Other myths suggest that it was brought to Ilé-Ifẹ̀ by Setiu, a Nupe man who settled in Ilé-Ifẹ̀. Each Niger–Congo-speaking ethnic group that practices it has its own myths of origin Yoruba religion suggests that it was founded by Orunmila in Ilé-Ifẹ̀ when he initiated himself and then he initiated his students, Akoda and Aseda. The 16-principle system has its earliest history in West Africa. Ifá is practiced throughout the Americas, West Africa, and the Canary Islands, in the form of a complex religious system, and plays a critical role in the traditions of Santería, Candomblé, Palo, Umbanda, Vodou, and other Afro-American faiths, as well as in some traditional African religions. Babalawos or Iyanifas use either the divining chain known as Opele, or the sacred palm or kola nuts called Ikin, on the wooden divination tray called Opon Ifá. Orunmila is identified as the Grand Priest, as he revealed divinity and prophecy to the world.
Ifá is a Yoruba religion and system of divination. Yoruba divination practice Sixteen Principal Odu
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