Nine-year-old virgin Alimot Osunbunmi will lead the Osun-Osogbo Festival as the new Arugba. Her task is to carry a sacred ...

Alimot Osunbunmi is the new Arugba Osun Osogbo, chosen after the divination process in March by Osun devotees to begin a new era of carrying the yearly sacred calabash to the Osun Osogbo ...

Yoruba priests use divination tray to answer questions, solve dilemmas in the community BY NDUBUISI EZELUOMBA | Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, NOMA Sep 1, 2020 1 min to read ...

Yoruba master carver's mystical divination bowl emulates the cosmos at NOMA BY AMANDA M. MAPLES Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, NOMA Apr 15, 2024 1 min to read ...

Excerpts from this book are published in Dédalo (São Paul0) 23, 1984, pages 117-126 (GN700.D299 ANTH; VF -- Divination). Original Portuguese with English translations. DÍLÓGÚN : BRAZILIAN TALES OF ...

The very arrangement of the wood is a nod to Ifá, a Yoruba divination system that — much like binary — uses single and double lines to represent a total of 256 signs.