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Obara-Otura
"Apapatiako, the rebel rouser on the farm"
cast for the Hen and her chickens.
They told them that a strong enemy
was on his way to attack them;
if they would leave the house to go
to the farm, he would pursue them,
but if they made sacrifice however,
Hen and her chickens would survive.
Only very few made the sacrifice.
The sacrifice was a snail, 3200 cowries,
and ewe. Grind owo leaves, make
from that and the snail a soup,
and eat or drink the soup.
It was said that the hawk can do
the snail no harm; all he can do
is look at it. This person
will be respected. Ifa divination texts from Jaap Verduijn's Odu Ifa Corpus. Ifa as a divination method is found in many countries in West Africa. However, the Yoruba peoples of (mainly) Nigeria have perfected it. The presented texts are translations, rewritings and interpretations of original Yoruba divination verses, in which the traditional "poetry-like" cadence and rhythm has been preserved and/or recreated as far as the English language allows. The visual structure of the texts in writing is according to tradition - there is no such thing as a line break or a paragraph in Ifa chanting. The texts are part of my "working corpus" as an Ifa diviner. More about Ifa on http://www.qondio.com/mama.pl?a=intelshow&i=17751 |
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