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All 256 Odù listed with signatures, the 16 principal Odù in the competing ranking orders, and an honest account of where the sources disagree.
How the sixteen-cowrie system, kola divination, and the Fon, Ewe, Cuban and Brazilian relatives relate to Ifá, and why formal similarity is weaker evidence than it looks.
How Fon and Ewe Vodún relates to Yoruba orisa tradition, why Vodún is its own system and not Yoruba religion renamed, what Fa and Ifa share and where they diverge, and the Ketu corridor that carried both across the Atlantic.
The history, mathematical structure, liturgical divergence, and contemporary institutionalization of the Fon, Gun, and Mina divination system known as Fá in the Republic of Benin.
A historical and structural analysis of Ifá divination, examining its relationship to trans-Saharan geomancy, regional adaptations across West Africa, colonial suppression, and transatlantic diaspora divergence.