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Sep 3, 2026

Rotimi Merriman-JohnsonHOST
35:09
Mm-hmm.
SolomonGUEST
35:09
And you know about the Orishas through these, um, through these Odu, um, Ifa, which are, like, 256, um, like-
AdwoaGUEST
35:19
Verses
SolomonGUEST
35:20
... verses in a text that sort of, like, tell the stories, and basically, like, Ifa priests or Baba- uh, Babalawos sort of, or Babalawos sort of, like, read these, and they can infer your destiny or your life in one way or another.
Rotimi Merriman-JohnsonHOST
36:02
Mm-hmm
AdwoaGUEST
36:02
... or text, um, unless you go, yeah, go to a priest.
AdwoaGUEST
36:06
I guess for, um, the Ifa, there is the Odu verses, which again, they're verses, so it's not like you can't really compare it to, like, a Bible where there's, like, stories written down.
AdwoaGUEST
36:16
It's just more like when you do divination, you can read, like Solomon said, a verse to find out your Ori, which is your destiny.

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