Who writes this

A site about an oral tradition should say who is speaking and from where. This page answers both — and also what we do not do.

Lineage

Ifá Wisdom is written by a couple initiated in Ifá. We received the Hand of Orunmila in August 2026 — Awofakan and Ikofá — in the Cuban lineage (Regla de Ocha / Ifá), with a Cuban godfather who knows this site and has approved the book of itans we are preparing.

We are practitioners who study and write. We offer no priestly services, perform no ritual consultations and prescribe no ẹbọ. That is what the babalawo of your house is for — and nothing here replaces him.

How the content is made

  • We work from published works, graded by the weight they carry as sources — field research, academic study, priestly work or compilation. The full list is in Sources and Bibliography.
  • Liturgical names, verses and attributions always come from published work, with edition and page. We never infer them by analogy: where there is no source, the gap is acknowledged and stated to the reader.
  • Where the Nigerian, Cuban and Brazilian traditions diverge, we show both forms and say which is which — rather than choosing one and erasing the other.

What is made by AI and what is not

The oracle reading is generated by artificial intelligence from the Odu that was cast and the context you write. The casting itself follows the traditional method; the reading is algorithmic.

The blog articles and the Odu pages are written by us, researched in the sources we cite. We say this plainly because we think being clear about the limits is what makes the rest trustworthy.

What this site is not

It is not a substitute for consulting a babalawo, it does not determine your birth Odu, it prescribes no ẹbọ and performs no initiation. It is a place of study and contemplation — the doorway into a tradition that is learned from people, not from websites.