Pages, pages and more pages

Here on this page called "Pages, pages and more pages" you'll find... eh... pages (wide grin)! Serious now: from here on we'll build up a fine collection of information about African Traditional Religion in general, and Ifa-Orisha in all its expressions in particular. We specifically concentrate on the divination techniques used in the Religion.

For information specifically pertaining to Ese Odu Ifa (Ifa divination texts) you might also want to visit the link Ifa Texts, where of course you can find the links towards the individual Odu's, but also some other information that will be of interest, like a steadily growing list of alternative names for the various Odu. This is especially useful for relative newcomers to the religion and to Ifa divination, but it also can be of some help to experienced diviners - there's hardly a Babalawo who hasn't every now and then encountered an Odu name that baffled him!

 

Demo Ifa reading This Ifa reading was done long distance from The Netherlands, for a client in the United States. He has given me permission to use this transcript in a slightly adapted way (like removal of names a...

Fa'Lokun documents Again is Awo Fa'Lokun Fatunmbi the subject of a lot of combat melodrama... sort of like myself during the late 1990's, only more so. Left click on any of the images below to read the full page with...

Four Cowries AKA Obi There's much more to Four Cowries or Obi divination than initially meets the eye! You can make it...

Ifa divination tools Within the Orunmila system of Ifa divination, the sixteen palm nuts or Ikin are considered the most elevated form of divination, to the extend that they are often called the "sacred palm nuts". The...

Ifa-Orisha Shop Ifa-Orisha shop (including ATR, Lucumi, Santeria etcetera) for books, DVD's, tools, paraphernalia, divination stuff, eleke's, ide's... and much more!

Ifa-related video's There's an increasing lot of quite decent videos about Ifa floating around the internet. Sure, there's a lot of crap around as wel, but considering that ninety percent of everything is bullshit (St...

Keep your Head happy! "Feeding the Head" AKA "rogacion", "feeding the Ori" or "Ibori" is a common treatment/ritual in the religion of Ifa-Orisha, in fact for me it is one of the most common. Often the need or the advisa...

Late Dutch Ifa Church After an existence of eighteen years, in 2006 the Nederlands Ifa-Orisha Genootschap was closed down. Incorporated as a Church in the Netherlands (full statutory name Nederlands Vrijzinnig Ifa-Orish...

Photos allsorts On this page I'll throw in the occasional picture of things that interest me, and might possibly interest you. Generally speaking, a left-click on any thumbnail will send you to the original larger...

Sixteen Cowries to Opele There are many misunderstandings about the origins of Ifa divination. There are even misunderstanding about its very name, lots of people especially in the diaspora believing that Ifa is the real n...

The Brazilian Terreiro By Mãe Maria de Oxalá To most people of Candomblé the Terreiro is so much part of our lives that we do not think too much about it, nor about its origins or the concept that it holds. Until you me...

Total Responsibility How not to fuck up your daily life, and if you do, how not to whine about it! I wrote this article a long time ago, in the late 1980's when I was running my "Dutch Church of Ifa-Orisha". Re-readin...

Where I got it all I'm fairly often asked where the texts and other stuff on my site comes from - like Ode Remo material given to me by my godfather, or through studying with other people, or whatever? Actually it's ...