Odun Ifa

Table Of Contents

Part I

Preliminaries

A: Permission

B: Acknowledgements

C: Preface

D: Dedication

E: A note on Ivo Orunmila Ato

Part II

Introduction

A: What is Ifa?

B: The language of Ifa

C: Religious and Philosophical Ideas in Ifa

D: Translation and Orthography

Part III

Stages of the Rites

A: Rites of The Annual Festival

B: Invocation and Petitions

Part IV

The 16 Principal Paired Odu of Ifa

Part V

Inaugural Odu

Part VI

Conjuration Odu

A: Ose Tura

B: Ose Birete

C: Okonro Sode (Okonron Ogbe)

D: Ogbe Ate (Ogbe Irete)

E: Owonrin Ogbe

F: Irosun Irete

Part VII

Casting the Kola nuts

Part VIII

Concluding Sacrifícalas Rites

Part IX

Chants after Sacrifice

Part X

Divination

A: Divination for the Year

B: Sacrifice after Annual Divination