IFA and Ebo

As the saying goes 'Imule loogun'. Charms and magic are based or inaugurated on agreements'. The IUPAC nomenclature of Chemistry is also based on agreement or imule and that is why scientists worldwide use the same IUPAC nomenclature. It is the same in Ifa. All the sixteen signs are imule, the order of seniority of odus used inside any temple is imule. Not different at all from what is obtainable in different sectors of science. Without imule and many Awos cascading on each other, the system would collapse. This is what is meant in the saying 'Awo ni ngbe Awo ni igbonwon, bi Awo ko ba gbe Awo ni igbonwon, Awo a te, bi Awo ko ba gbe Awo ni igbonwon Awo a ya!'. One Awo cascades against another and if they don't do that, the Awo will be disgraced, if they do not do that, the Awo will crumble!.

Now to the issue of ebo or sacrifice, ebo are also imule like the sixteen signs of Ifa as well as the IUPAC nomenclature in Chemistry. Not different. However according to the saying 'Bi a ko ba RI Adan a fi ombe se ebo'. If Adan (bat) is not available then we will use ombe for sacrifice, the important thing to know is that what is most important in Ifa is the mathematics and not the ebo. Ebo is somehow arbitrary but it is still an agreed upon nomenclature just like the sixteen Ifa signs but if no Ogun Alara there would have been no dog sacrifice to Ogun, if no Ogun Ajero, no palmwine sacrifice to Ogun. So we all can see that it started at a point and that the mathematics is most important. There are European Oguns because Adam Smith is no less Ogun than anybody. He was an incarnation of Ogun. Therefore the mathematics is most important but what a priest asks you to pay as ebo is his own ebo nomenclature for that reading and should be respected for you to have an hitch free ride.
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