The 16 Tenets of IFA
& Fundamentals of ODU
IFA is the Religion of the African Yoruba Lineage.
I am sharing this to enable the inspirations to flow on many different worldviews. Only through knowing of pluriversalities, worldviews which defy any kind of universal dominance of thought or image, can we understand where and how the ‘universal images’ we have inherited or adopted from our cultures, without question, have come through instrumentalisations of power-over.
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16 Tenets of Ifa
1. There is a single God.
2. There is no devil.
3. Except for the day you were born and the day you are supposed to die, there is no single event in your life that cannot be forecast and when necessary changed.
4. It is your birth right to be happy, successful and fulfilled.
5. You should grow and obtain wisdom during the process.
6. You are reborn through your blood relatives.
7. Heaven is our home and earth is the marketplace, we are in constant passage between the two.
8. You are a part of the universe in a literal, not figurative way.
9. You must never initiate harm to another human being.
10. You must never hurt the universe of which you are apart.
11. Our temporal and spiritual capacities must work together.
12. You are born with a specific path. It is your goal to travel it. Divination provides your road map.
13. Our ancestors exist and must be honoured.
14. Sacrifice (to-make-sacred) guarantees success.
15. The Orisas live within us. (Forces)
16. You need have no fear.
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A fantastic book to discover IFA and ODU is
‘Isese Spirituality Workbook, The Ancestral Wisdom of the Ifa, Ayele Kumari PhD, US, 2020‘
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You can find multipe threads of infomation on the below video links.