OmoEkofa (Young girl who studies Ifa Philosophy)

[blancamigdalia]

thanks a lot for this video,i love my religion,is good to know that a woman can be a iyanifa,i wan to have a real Yoruba community in USA.

[AquilaChe]

ase!

[DEBOEFOREVER]

this is too beautiful. it brings tears to my eyes....it also shows that we in america have a lot to catch up on when educating our youth. Literacy as well as reverence can be accomplished in due time. We just have to be committed to helping each other as well as our youth out. Mefferefun the orishas every day and bless this young lady and her village.

[el7baby]

Truth beauty, Islamism

[efunawsome]

@imelda4jesus -is probably a self loathing highly indoctrinated individual.. sad thing is he/she is probably of african descent..most if not all biblical stories came from africa.Ifa is truly non bias..It teaches about the existance and balance of all things the stories of the bible only speak about people at a certain point in history and there relationships with each other..but not the life around them ..ie nature, spirits, animals etc.This is something modern man could benefit in respecting..

[imelda4jesus]

@efunawsome ..........oh please! read yr comment loudly, your going round in circles, anywya never mind. Geuss when you die you will understand better

[supervirtuouswoman]

Beautiful children of amen Ra.

[imelda4jesus]

May God deliver this beautiful innocent girl from this occultic practice.

[supervirtuouswoman]

@imelda4jesus.  You are the one who practice the occult because you believe in jesus christ, which is a white man fantasy.

[imelda4jesus]

Your just a racist now you say Christianity is for white people etc please. It doesnt matter if a chinese or yoruba preaches the gospel to me. Stop looking at who brought it and focus on how it can save souls from hell fire. satan is very clever he is now lying to ppl that Christianity is white mans religion... that is another confusion to distract you from the message of salvation.

you have an enemy n his name is satan not me

As for ifa it is the occult... pls check out meaning of occult.

[FulMetaJakit]

@imelda4jesus YOU DAmn fool christianity has cause nothing but disaster for african people world wide. you must be a krakkka or a brain dead ass nigga to spew that sheer fuckery from your lame ass brain. fucking fool.

[imelda4jesus]

@supervirtuouswoman really??

[imelda4jesus]

@supervirtuouswoman really?? ok... dont worry your going to die one time and you will know the truth, for now continue, its your life abi? okay go on..

[murdaralph]

THIS IS WRONG!!!!!! You are all ignorant... i am cuban and many of you think this is nice and shit but its not my grand father is babalawo and i have been in the religion since birth. WOMEN ARE NOT SOPPOSED TO STUDY IFA! WOMEN CANNOT GO FORTH INTO IFA THEY CANNOT BECOME BABALAWO!!!! This girl will suffer

[oddbutcomplete]

keep in mind that this video was taken in nigeria... where this originated. i think they know very well what they are doing and i know they wouldn't put a child in a position where she will suffer. that is a myth and it should be shattered or we as a people can not move forward... that whole male domination mindset was taken from those who captured our ancestors... let that die.

[mabeanz08]

@oddbutcomplete dam right we know what we're doing yoruba started the whole cuban culture beans n rice drums dance ....they were dancing but not to african rythms .voodoo works through ancestors how can spainards practice this.

[OrisaNeteru]

Calm down, this tradition of women knowing Ifa in Yorubaland is older than Cuban history. For whatever reason the rules changed when our Ancestors arrived in the Carribean but one thing hadn't changed, women still don't see Odu. If we can understand the history of these things it will make us more informed and hopefully less hostile.

[PermanentWater]

So are you telling us that babalawos in Cuba don't suffer? In this vale of tears called life everybody suffers. But not as a result of studying Ifa.

[AJCORREIA0317]

They're recieting a yoruban prayer of the Iwori Meyi Odu

[x3roman]

beautiful :-)

[996208]

Good,....but what they says...?any one can translated it to english

[johnnybull12]

Yoruba Eni aja bari l'aja i baa r'ele Eni aja bari l'aja i baa lo A d'ifa f'eji koko Iwori To t'eju m'alapo re girigiri Ifa to baa t'eju mo mi ki n l'aje English Translation Whomever the dog finds he goes home with Whomever the dog finds he goes wit The Ifa (Oracle) of Eji Koko Iwori That looks after (literarily means pay attention to) his bag carrier (caddy) Ifa if you look after me (pay attention to me), I'll be wealthy

[johnnybull12]

Oju ire leji koko Iwori fi i w'akapo

Ifa to baa t'eju mo mi ki n l'aya

Oju ire leji koko Iwori fi i w'akapo

Ifa to baa t'eju mo mi ki n n'i re gbogbo

Oju ire leji koko Iwori fi i w'akapo

Eji Koko Iwori looks favorably unto his bag carrier (caddy)

Ifa if you look (pay attention) unto me, I'll have a wife

Eji Koko Iwori looks favorably unto his bag carrier (caddy)

Ifa if you look (pay attention) unto me, I'll have all good things

Eji Koko Iwori looks favorably unto his bag carrier

[Hyphy00]

What is Ifa Philosophy?

[reymysteriorules14]

Oturaniko 14 , ashe iboru abure , im obetua in my ifa and totally agree with you , women shouldnt do there ifa and are banned , and plus even if women were allowed to do ifa they cant study before they go into ifa because orula will put them in osorbo , anyway way oluo iboru and i totally agree with you.

[oturaniko14]

excuse me but why are people marking me down , i am a balawo , baba ejiogbe , and im not talking out of my butt , women shouldnt do their ifa.

[AwoIfaOgboni1]

i saw this video on OrisunAye(dot)Org

[casanovaMIA1]

Alot of westernized awos would not comprohend pre-colonial Ifa and its counterpart Afa in Africa where women are Ifa or Afa priest since time unrecorded by post colonial influence upon our great black tradition.

[dancint]

Thank you for this...how beautiful to see these children starting so young...I wish it was that way in the States. Our chidren need Ifa badly. Many blessings, Omilade

[TheEvilOyo]

lol

[tweepixie]

@dancint Could you please tell me in which states of usa do people still practice african religionThe only place iknew they still practice it was louisiana.Sorry to ask you that but I´m brazilian and african religion and culture play a big role in our society :) And I would like to know more about the influences in the USA.

[oturaniko14]

what the heck , women arent supposed to study ifa ,

[ayanifa]

This is a girl I know, she is not an Iyanifa YET, we study first then go to Itefa, then study more, Iyanifa are like Babalawo who study Ifa not just do initiation then fail to study. I continue to study under my mentors direction and will do my own Itefa one day with him, but to study is important, eku se Baba mi

[altopanavnzla]

Very good that women can be also Iyenifa and can read the okuele and perfom some Ifa rituals. In some parts of Venezuela women are not allowed to be Iyenifa...what an ignorance!

[BookTalker920]

Just like men who have been initiated without the presence of Odu (not 'looking into the Odu pot' as you suggest, which is how Babalawos and Obas commit suicide in Nigeria) cannot divine for the public.

That is why every source up until the 1970s state unequivocally that only men can be Ifa diviners. Suddenly, when American women with lots of money started arriving in Nigeria, Iyanifas were everywhere.

[bxlunar]

mo fori bo rere o sango tan'kan o ya de.wa'nile onile o ku o. wa'nile onile o ya.

[blkbri]

i just wanted to another comment, so we wouldn't have 16. That was a beautiful video! Ashe.

[Nusantaraku]

Gifted smart brain! Not everyone has the abilities to memories "IFA" that well. However, many factors lead to successful way of SMART learning... Nice documentary works! -NH

[faramade2]

thank you, I love it, and hope to keep our culture and religion alive

[fjc973]

oduaworldtraders youre right in everything you said but people who don't practice the traditional yoruba religion from nigeria don't know that womens can be initiated as iyanifas and they do got a role in everything as a matter of facts we got a lot in america and they were initiated in yorubaland i'm an antropology student and yoruba priest also ifa student

[omorisa]

it has been a very bad misconception that women do not perform Itefa, they do and they learn Ifa just like men, the only difference is Odu, the old idea will disappear in time - I know some great Iyanifa and have a lot of respect for them

[ricovcky]

so basically what you are saying is that through time people can instill there own beliefs and make what impossible a possibility. thats just utterly disrespectful. hell why not let homosexuals do ifa also. "the old idea will disappear in time"

[RomillyGraham]

It's just a fact that every one knows.  That's like asking how your learned nursery rhymes. I can't say specifically who told me or when I learned that. I've just become aware of the fact.

[PermanentWater]

Women cannot witness Odu, which is what happens in the Ifa grove, called Igbodu. Apparently any woman who does so will lose her ability to bear children. This is not hidden information. This is a common fact. One doesn't even have to be steeped in the religion to know this.

[oduaworldtraders]

the point in my mail is that there is no ceiling to female participation in ifa.the only secret not shared is the looking into the pot of odu which was decreed by this female diety.have the odus irete-ogbe and osa explained to you on this.each sex has their own role to play in keeping with the yoruba and african believe system of opposite polarity in creation.iyanifa is different from babalawo and does not need to be one but is female highpriest of ifa playing her own role

[dpadro]

if a woman cannot witness Odun...then she cannot consult with Ifá...and there is your ceiling.

[PermanentWater]

Women might not be initiated but they can still study Ifa.

[oduaworldtraders]

women infact are intitated into ifa and other orisas except oro cult.they infact play the greater role in sustaining the spirituality and can train to the female equivalent of babalawo which is iyanifa

[PermanentWater]

Quite right!

[allisoncaviness]

note the voices coming from behind the camera. they can never describe correctly.

[PermanentWater]

Actually, the voice behind the camera was explaining that she was reciting from the holy verses of Iwori Meji. And he was quite right.

[xxfunkyfresh21xx]

women cannot become a babalawo this video is described wrong.

[oduaworldtraders]

women can infact be the female equivalent of babalawo which is iyanifa which is everything a babalawo is except they do not look into the female deity odu,and do not initiate priests neither divine with the opele chain but use othe divination tools