The first book on Santeria's holiest divination system to thoroughly explore each family of odu and how their actions and reactions affect the spiritual development of the client.

- Includes the major considerations for sacrifice, providing the diviner with ways to placate and supplicate the Afro-Cuban deities known as orishas.

- Demonstrates how to properly end a reading so that negative vibrations are fully removed from the diviner's home.

- Provides a thoroughly detailed description of each of the 12 families of odu that exist in the diloggun--from Okana through...

The first book to explore the sacred myths of Santeria

- Includes more than 100 myths, stories, and histories about the odu and the orishas

- Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories

- Demonstrates that the African peoples, specifically the Yoruba, were deeply spiritual

At the core of the diloggun--the sacred divination system of Santeria--are the sacred stories known as the patakis, narratives whose themes are as powerful and relevant today as they were in the minds of the ancient Yoruba who safeguarded them. Each pataki is...