Emese Library
The Ifa Iwa gallery will provide links to a comprehensive series of Ifa lessons to assist beginners in learning about Adura (prayer), Isha'ro (meditation), Afose (divination), Ebo (sacrifice), Ise Isin and Ti Ilana Isin (ceremony and ritual), Aawe (fasting), and Rere Iwa (the Good Condition).
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Recommended Books
Ifa Will Mend Our Broken World, Wande Abimbola, Aim Books, MA, ISBN: 0-9659739-0-5.
Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpus, Wande Abimbola, Athelia Henrietta Press, NY, ISBN: 1-890157-00-7.
Four New World Yoruba Rituals, John Mason, Yoruba Theological Archministry, NY, ISBN: 1-881244-03-2.
Note: Both of Professor Abimbola's books are authoritative and scholarly.
The Sacred Ifa Oracle, Afolabi A. Epega & Philip J. Neimark, HarperSanFrancisco Publishers, ISBN: 0-06-250309-X.
Note: This book does not contain all of the Ese Ifa (verses of Ifa). When Baba Umar asked Chief Adelekan to compare the number of ese in the Sacred Ifa Oracle text and in the Oral Ese Ifa, Baba Adelekan's comparison was that the book is the equivalent of one (1) page of the oral tradition. Nonetheless, by using The Sacred Ifa Oracle in conjunction with Wande Abimbola's Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpus, you can gain a great insight into the Awo (mysteries of) Ifa.
Adura: An Ifa Prayer Book For Beginners, Alufa A.S. Umar Sharif, MA,
Hard to Find but Great to Have
Stolen Legacy: The Greeks were not the authors of Greek Philosophy, But the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians, George G.M. James, 1954, USA. (this is before ISBN bar codes)
African Presence in Early Europe, Ivan Van Sertima, Transaction Books, ISBN: 0-88738-664-4
Read about the Ifa Calendar
Read about the 401 Orisa and the Oju Orisa (Principle Orisa)
Read about the Egungun (Spirit of Ancestors)
Learn what offerings to give to Orisa for your Ebos (.pdf)
