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Ifá is a Yorùbá system for reaching a decision by casting a signature, retrieving the memorised verses filed under it, and reasoning from the precedents they contain.
Each Odù is two columns of four marks, every mark single or double, giving four bits per column, eight bits in total, and exactly 256 possible signatures.
All 256 Odù listed with signatures, the 16 principal Odù in the competing ranking orders, and an honest account of where the sources disagree.
What Ifá is, how the divination actually works step by step, how the binary structure produces 256 addresses into a memorised corpus, and what is true and false in the claim that it is an ancient computer.
Two documented cases of proverbial refrains embedded directly inside Ifá divination verses, sourced from Abimbola's Sixteen Great Poems of Ifá, with a note on why this file is short.
Systematic guide to the sixteen principal Odù of the Ifá corpus, outlining their metaphysical principles, regional seniority debates, literary structures, and suggested reading paths.
Ọ̀yẹ̀kú Méjì is the second principal Odù of the Ifá corpus, serving as the cosmic, feminine, and nocturnal complement to Èjì Ogbè while governing the mitigation of death and misfortune.
The third principal sign of the Ifá divination corpus, its geomantic structure, regional ranking variations, textual themes, and published oral literature.
The fifth principal sign of the Ifá literary corpus, characterized by its binary pattern of two single marks over two double marks, associated in published scholarship with themes of spiritual foresight, character reform, sacrifice, and physical or spiritual vigilance.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of the principal Odù Ifá Ọ̀bàrà Méjì, detailing its binary notation, regional ranking sequences, published academic transcriptions, and primary thematic motifs.
A scholarly analysis of the Odù Ifá Ọ̀sá Méjì, detailing its binary sign, regional rankings, mythological covenants with the Àjẹ́, and published poetic corpus.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of the twelfth principal Odù in the Yoruba Ifá corpus, examining its structural notation, sequence disputes, thematic corpus, and published verses.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of the principal Odù Òtúrá Méjì, including its geometric signature, competing ranking positions, published poetic verses, thematic associations with peace and Islam, and textual history.
Structural profile, canonical ranking, and scholarly documentation of the fourteenth principal sign of the Ifa divination corpus.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Ọ̀ṣẹ́ Méjì, the fifteenth principal sign of the Ifá divination corpus, examining its graphic signature, structural hierarchy across competing regional traditions, published poetic verses, thematic preoccupations, and the division between academic documentation and initiate-held knowledge.
The 256 Odù of Ifá are generated by a real, precise binary procedure, four marks in each of two columns, each mark one of two states. That structure is genuine mathematics, and it is also not proof of anything beyond itself.
An examination of female ritual, medical, and judicial offices in Yoruba tradition, focusing on the Iyanifa dispute, palace priesthoods, and botanical health systems.
A comparative analysis of the four primary Yorùbá divination methods, distinguishing their instruments, mathematical structures, priesthoods, and ritual scopes.