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Orisa Orunmila

The Prophet of Ifa

Mo juba awo Orunmila.


Iwo ni Iko Olodumare.
Iwo ni Olupilese Awo Odu Ifa.
Iwo ni Ifa.
Iwo ni Oluwa Awo Igba Owo-Eyo.
Iwo ni Ohun Idarisi.
Iwo ni Oluwa Asiri Iwa.
Iwo ni Orisha Julo Loye.
I humble myself before the mystery of Orunmila.
You are the Messenger of Olodumare.
You are the Author of the Mysteries of Odu Ifa.
You are Ifa.
You are the Owner of the Mysteries of the Cowry Shell.
You are the Voice of Fate.
You are the Owner of the Secrets of Existence.
You are the Most Intelligent Orisha.

The Yoruba believe in Divination. They believe that Ifa is the source of all knowledge and that the Orisha
Orunmila is the keeper of this knowledge. It is through divination that man is told what must be done to
change things that are negative to things that are positive. Orunmila is deemed the Prophet of Yoruba
religion and culture. It was he who developed and expounded upon the system of esoteric worship known
to this day as Ifa. Through the study of human nature and divine nature, Orunmila saw that dual levels of
potentiality existed. Through him we understand that the study of animate and inanimate, manifest and
unmanifested, [‘chaos’ and ‘order’], visible and invisible worlds leads to fundamental understandings of the
self-ontology, and that these fundamental understandings bring about the evolution of human spirit, which,
in turn, encourages divine behavior, worldly progression, and expanded cosmology.
Orisa Orunmila’s physical origins are shrouded in ancient legend, however, it is believed that he was born
of humble West African parents. To the people of the land he was clearly recognized as a divine child, and
although poor and crippled, he expressed from the onset divine wisdom and attributes. Orunmila grew to
be known as ‘the little man with the big head.’ His great intelligence superceded all known teachings and
his divine nature was seen as a blessing of the angelic forces. In the translation of his name is the meaning
‘only Heaven knows the way to salvation'.
It is important to understand that the ‘flesh and blood’ Orunmila, whose influence is evidenced in ‘...ancient
Khamet /Egypt’, in the ‘...Essence community of the Judeo-pre-Christian era’, and in the spiritual traditions
of most Indigenous People’s of this world, was not the orginator of the wisdom that he spoke. Ifa is from
the ‘Beginning’ and is a part of the Consciousness of Olodumare. The guidelines set down by Orunmila are
‘keys’ to closing the gap between Ori (terrestre consciência) and Iponri (consciência divina ).
Iba se Orisa Orunmila!
Homenagem para Orisa Orunmila!

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