L’ Institut français de Grèce est le service de coopération et d’action culturelle de l’Ambassade de France en Grèce. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the ifa beads meaning title. Ifá is a Yoruba religion and system of divination. Its literary corpus is the Odu Ifá.

Orunmila is identified as the Grand Priest, as he revealed divinity and prophecy to the world. The 16-principle system has its earliest history in West Africa. Orunmila came to establish an oral literary corpus incorporating stories and experiences of priests and their clients along with the results. This odu corpus emerges as the leading documentation on the Ifá tradition to become a historical legacy.

In Yorubaland, divination gives priests unreserved access to the teachings of Orunmila. Eshu is the one said to lend ashe to the oracle during provision of direction and or clarification of counsel. In Igboland, Ifá is known as Afá, and is performed by specialists called Dibia. The Dibia is considered a doctor and specializes in the use of herbs for healing and transformation. Among the Ewe people of southern Togo and southeast Ghana, Ifá is also known as Afá, where the Vodun spirits come through and speak. There are sixteen major books in the Odu Ifá literary corpus.

That sign must be written each time a ritual is performed: Ọse-Tura is the messenger and the carrier of the sacrifice. It is closely associated with the god Eshu in the system of Ifá. The Ifá divination system was added in 2005 by UNESCO to its list of the “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”. The òrìṣà of Ifá, Orula or Ọ̀rúnmila, also has a prominent place within Santería. Yoshiaki Koshikawa, Japanese professor of literature at Meiji University and first Japanese person to be initiated as a babalawo. History of the Yorubas from the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. Ifá: ImọLe Rẹ Ti I Ṣe Ipile Isin Ni Ilẹ Yoruba.