REL 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Olodumare, Iyalawo, Yoruba Religion
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Orisha: head guardians, superhuman being that bring us wisdom of our destiny, extremely personified, live in the earth, similar to greek gods because they have faults, Divination: brings wisdom of orisha to us, infinite verses of memorized information, based on interpreting 16 basic numerical figures and 256 figures. Iyalawo: women diviners who have memorized 256 possible signatures, mediators between orisha and clients. Ashe: animates the orishas and the sacred power within us that chooses our destiny, make things happen/change. Olodumare: supreme being, owner of sky, chief source of power, remote/distant, respected more than revered, don"t worship him directly-they go to lesser gods for direct help. Eshu: most important, crossroads, the messenger delivers or refuses to deliver sacrifices from below to orishas and other spiritual beings, w/o human existence would spin into chaos. Orunmila: most important, delivers messages from above to humans, mastermind of devination, owner of ifa corpus, knows the destinies of humans and orishas(present at creation), stability and harmony.
