saasala:
Lalasticlala, Seun, Ishilove, come and see food o.

Dont tell me you dont know that the Yoruba tradition still thrives in far away Brazil. They bear Yoruba names, speak Yoruba, though the tongue is now mixed with Portuguese. They sacrifice to Ogun, Orunmila, Sango, Obatala, and they cherish and worship Yemoja(They call it Yeamanja) more than the Nigerian Yorubas. This clean babalawo is just one of many... If ypu check his background, he has the Yoruba DNA and genes. He is not white, he is mixed(They call them mulato in South America). He is my brother, though from another mother.

likewise Cuba, Benin republic, Ghana, Côte D and the west indies.

chiedu7:
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Deuteronomy 18 (KJV)

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,
or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, [/b]or a necromancer.

12 For all that do [b]these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
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Ogbeni, No Try Am Oooooooooo

No Even Think That Matter At All.

Israelis Are Still Practising Judaism Oooooo and They Are Doing Well Ooooooooo.

Chinese Are Still Practising Their Religion Oooooo and They Are Doing Well.

Japanese Are Still Practising Their Religion Ooooo and They Are Doing Well.


Religion is not what set us back in Nigeria, it's our good-for-nothing Political Leaders. Britons And Americans are majorly Christians yet they Are Doing Well Ooooooo. Haitians Are Also Christians Oooooooo Yet They Are Backward.

So, don't tell me a Religion is good or bad.

Ibile United Forever.

Proudly Ibile Bam Bam.

majamajic:
He must be from Brazil

you are intelligent... I thought so too

Dollar millionaire babalawo.

The nigga HellFire dey gym. Fetish religion

TOO FLY,

SUPER FLY.

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teeowl:
What exactly makes him a babalawo? Is it the costume that he is wearing?

A babalawo is a person who has been intiated into Ifa awo and has opele or ikin, opan ifa etc and can divinate, recite Ifa chants per Odu to mention a few.

If the person in the picture can do that going by the picture of the little girl with the red feather on her forehead which shows she is getting her own Ifa, then he is a babalawo.

The man is a former totenham player

no comment. :-Xno comment.

Babalawo to ni packaging wa gbayi jare

The guy neva see beta winch.

Harfisco:
The man is a former totenham player

the effect of surulere weed

@Hapuya, he is not white, he is Caribbean and it is quite possibe that he has got African toots. There are lots of carribbeans who practise the Yoruba gods till date.

Xsolutions:

Is 'Mulatto' the appropriate term? 'Mulatto' kinda sounds offensive to me...

My official language is Portuguese and mullato simply means white.Mixed white

Juju, womanising, partying, drinking, and smoking cigars.

saasala:
Lalasticlala, Seun, Ishilove, come and see food o.

Dont tell me you dont know that the Yoruba tradition still thrives in far away Brazil. They bear Yoruba names, speak Yoruba, though the tongue is now mixed with Portuguese. They sacrifice to Ogun, Orunmila, Sango, Obatala, and they cherish and worship Yemoja(They call it Yeamanja) more than the Nigerian Yorubas. This clean babalawo is just one of many... If ypu check his background, he has the Yoruba DNA and genes. He is not white, he is mixed(They call them mulato in South America). He is my brother, though from another mother.

So who is a Northerner or Easterner to you?

Amazo:



Culture is okay but sorcery is evil. Don't be fooled, there's a huge difference between culture and sorcery, but mixing up the two is how the advocates of sorcery have perpetuated this evil thing for thousands of years. Sorcery and Science: this world isn't big enough for the two of us! For this reason are we here, and whether anyone likes it or not, we will finally do what Mother Nature has always been yearning to do - MAKE YOU EXTINCT!!! Our fathers made your voodoo gods bleed, and made their regal kingdoms slave dungeons; but we'll do what they didn't do - make your voodoo gods die .

Who are your fathers? Biko nu?

at the end of the day they will say oyibo pple no dey do juju.......na them even do juju pass

johnydon22:
Am seriously loving this. . . It's time we Africans take our own cultures, religions to the world..

It's time w identified with who we are...

Not always being the gullible ones who swallow other people's religions and myths at the detriment of ours. . .

The Oyinbo will soon bring it back to us after refining and removing all the Iyami oshoroga and babami oshoroga flavor from it......... We never value our own untill white man say otherwise.......

Babalawo wey dey use Luis Vutton....oya! owo meji fun'eyan kan.

;DBabalawo wey dey use Luis Vutton....oya! owo meji fun'eyan kan.

See person weh deh worship orunmila or sango or obatala as he fresh and doing good and well...

It no matter who you serve,na to serve am well ooo...

Xsolutions:

Is 'Mulatto' the appropriate term? 'Mulatto' kinda sounds offensive to me...

The first time you probably hear of the word "Mulatto" was in a musical song. But the meaning is actually a light skinned mixed race. Though the word sounds like a slang.

uhmm

the guy is as trendy as our pastors
i hope he gets a jet soon

PA Olujimi Solanke once said and I quote " very soon the white will come back and teach us our culture" if care is not taken.

Try Google before you ask me who Jimi Solanke is

. INTRODUCTION

Information is a vital part of life. It is needed for survival. People and culture have evolved greatly.Languages and communication skills have changed.Divination is the act of seeking after knowledge of future or hidden things by inadequate means which isusually supplemented by some power which isrepresented all through history as coming from gods. Itmakes use of signs, omens and coincidences to tellhidden thingsDivination systems, some of which are almost asreading signs and omens, take a more deliberateapproach [4]. They are invented to generatecoincidences that do not depend upon external events,which can then be interpreted. Back in the ancient days, people had their way and languages used tocommunicate. Also, back then, people had ways of doing simple calculations and storing information [5].The abacus was a well-known tool for counting then.

II. THEORIGINOFIFADIVINATION

The Yoruba gods of western Nigeria once existed ashumans and had their way of communicating. Prior totheir disappearance, they left with the people a means tocommunicate with them in the outer realm (the ifadivination). Over 12,000 years ago, Africans developedIfa Oracle divination based on the square of 16=16x16=26 = 2^8 corresponding to the vertices of an8-dimensional hypercube and to the binary 2-choiceClifford algebra C1( and so to related ones such asC1(xC1( = C1(16) [7]. Since the number of sub-hypercubes in an 8-dimensional hypercube is 6,561 =81x81=3^8, the Ifa Oracle has N=8 ternary 3-structureas well as binary 2-structure [2]The processes used in ifa divination and the divinationsystem bear some similarities with Computer Science.Also, Computer Science takes it origin from ifadivination and so, this paper is meant to engage incomparative study between Ifa Divination andComputer Science.Ifa is the deity of wisdom and intellectual development.He is called upon to judge cases and provide answers to problems. He is a link between the people and God(Eledumare) [6].Performing Ifa divination is called ‘

idafa

’ (or

didaowo

and

ounte ale

). Idafa is performed by a Babalawo or Iyanifa (an initiated priest or priestess). Babalawo can be translated as “father of the secrets” while “Iyanifa”means “mother that has ifa” (i.e its blessing). So alsothe Computer science is a filed reserved for a fewcomputer professional and maintain forms of secrecyusing some security algorithmsAccording to Prof Odeyemi in his lecture titled “Whatis Ifa”, Ifa is the Divine Message of Olodumare tomankind and for all those who seek to receive it. Ifa'suniversal relevance lies in the fact that, when anindividual from any race, colour or creed approaches anIfa Priest for a personal message, Ifa may reveal amessage of national, continental or even globalimportance. Which may be similar to artificial neural


networks. For instance, the message may be a warningof an approaching war, famine, or pestilence, althoughthe message-seeker may be concerned only aboutmarriage. As a result of the spread of Ifa over themillennia, it has assumed different names in differentcountries and among different races [8]Orunmila, in order to make access to the retrieval of theDivine Message (Ifa) easy, devised the computer compatible binary coding system, thousands of years before the emergence of computer consciousness in so-called modern man! So, Ifa is preserved in binary codedformat and is output Parable - Format.Ifa is coded within 256

Odus

or Corpus, each Odurepresenting an esoteric pigeonhole, itself divisible into256 sub-holes. Within each of the 256 Odus, there are1,680 Sacred Verses all presented in Parable - Format.Thus, the body of Ifa consists of 430,080 messages for mankind [1]Prof. Olu Longe in His December 22, 1983 Inaugurallecture titled Ifa Divination And Computer Scienceasserted that Orunmila is one of the deities of theYoruba while Ifa divination is a device for forecastingthe future. What has those two got to do with the high-tech world of computer science?Ifa is actually an ancient binary computer systemwhich, in some inexplicable way, has successfullylinked the probability of numbers with the complexitiesof the human condition and the ever complex flux of events. Ifa, Longe said, is based on the 8-bit patternwith its eight–piece divination chain, 16 major odu(chapters) and 256 odu in all.Bade Ajayi in his paper titled A New Model of IfaBinary System stated that Orunmila, the Yoruba God of Wisdom and divination uses a geomantic system of divination to arrive at appropriate signs and employs

Ifa

verses to interpret the signs [1]



Ifa

literary corpus consists of 256 possibilities calledOdu and each Odu also contains superfluous storiescalled ese. Sixteen of the Odu are the principal oneswhile the remaining 240 are the mixed or minor Odu.As the name implies, each mixed Odu is formed by thecombination of two principal Odu. Each of the Odu(both principal and minor) is represented by a specificsign which is binary in nature [13]. Every Odu sign hastwo arms illustrated by the first two principal Odu..,Eji-Ogbe and Oyeku Meji below:

Table 1: Two Arms of Odu Sign

Eji-Ogbe Oyeku Meji1 1 11 11 2 21 1 11 11 Or 2 21 1 11 11 2 21 1 11 11 2 2Bade Ajayi emphasized in his paper thatcommunication with the Odu is achieved by means of acalculated mathematical framework based on the prescribed course of conduct required from each Odu[1]In fact, digital computer uses the binary system. Likethe computer, Yoruba anthmomancy is based on binarysystem and it is therefore a computer oriented sciencewhich can be used in mathematical education.At a divination session, several Ibo (instruments for casting lot), may be used to find detail informationabout a client's problem. The commonest and simplestform of Ibo of Cowry Shells tied together representingtypes (1) and piece of animal bone representing“Iho”(10)This relates to computer language today, we need prediction (which is scientific and reliable) more thandivination (which is religious and uncertain).Considering the locio in the arms of the opele, the pairsshould be punched (d) and there ‘bi’ spairs not punched(0) using this code paper model of

Ifa

-6-A-Bitscomputer model N has been developed. Here is themodel worked out by Opele

Punches Odu Name

000000 Ogbe (1)000001 Osa (10)000010 Otua (13)000100 Irete (14)001000 Ogunda (9)000011 Irosun (5)000101 Ose (15)001001 Iwori (3)000110 Odi (4)001010 Ofun (16)001100 Owonrin (6)000111 Obara (7)001011 Ika (11)001110 Oturupon (12)001110 Okanran (001111 Oyeku (2)This model based on binary system does not take intoconsideration the traditional system on which the

Ifa

corpus rests. In actual fact, the importance of hierarchyof the 256 Odu for the interpretation of

Ifa

messagecannot be over emphasized.

III. PROCESSOFIFADIVINATION

Items used are group of sixteen nuts ( ikin), opele(sacred chain),dust from irosun tree (iyerosun),divination tray (opon ifa) , ajere ifa ( seed vessel)The basic steps are:



Ifa Dida



Odu Revelation

This illiterate conman is most likely British. Is this a minstrel show? Another culture-vulture I can think up is DJ Tim Westwood. Due to no cultural heritage attached to them they feel the need to adopt someone else's culture to feel fulfilled.


If he's serious about this thing he should've established himself in Nigeria where mosquitoes reign supreme and not Brazil with its forgiving climate.

prince3009:
I will slap that Babalawo and nothing will happen!

You cannot mix Westernization with Juju and expect it to work.

BTW, OP....yo have given some bloggers hardwork.....dem go copy pictures tire!

don't generalise please