Traditional Yoruba culture is founded on the idea that everything in Nature has Ori or consciousness. This belief leads to the idea it is possible to communicate with Forces in Nature called Orisa. One form of communication is through altered states of consciousness commonly refered to as possession. The other is to communicate with Nature through the use of divination. In traditional Yoruba culture divination is the manipulation of either seeds or shells to create numberical patterns these patterns refer to specific verses of oral scripture. These verses are a way of preserving the wisdom of...

La cultura tradicional Yoruba esta fundada sobre la idea que todo en la naturaleza tiene ori o conciencia. Esta creencia nos induce a la idea de que es posible tener comunicacion con las Fuerzas de la Naturaleza llamadas Orisa. Una forma de comunicacion es a traves de estados alterados de conciencia comunmente referida como posesion. La otra es la comunicacion con la naturaleza a traves del uso de la adivinacion. En la cultura tradicional Yoruba la adivinacion es la manipulacion igual de semillas o caracoles para crear patrones numericos, estos patrones se refieren a versos especificos de la...