Nigeria

The divination corpus that carries the world's ages: Ifá's sixteen ways, and the reckoning of what comes after.

West Africadrafted

Nigeria contributes the Yoruba world-cycle tradition held in the Ifá divination corpus: the universe as a series of ages (orún), each created, lived, and dissolved, whose patterns are consulted through the sixteen major odu. In the Yoruba reckoning the end is not a single event but a rhythm the diviners can read — the same text that names the beginning also carries the account of what follows it.

Traditions

Yoruba World Cycles (Ifá)

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The Ifá divination corpus carries the Yoruba account of world ages — the universe as a series of created, inhabited, and dissolved eras whose patterns the diviner reads through the sixteen odu. The end is a rhythm, not an event, and the same text that tells the beginning tells the close.

1 myth

Stories

The Ifá Corpus and the Ages of the World

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A divinable end: the Yoruba world ages are patterns in the Ifá corpus, and the diviner reads the approach of the close the way the diviner read the beginning — the apocalypse as a consulted text.

cyclical · decay · cosmic