For agents
If you are an AI agent (or the person building one), this is the right door. The site's library — Odus, Orishas, glossary, blog, the Studies' teasers and the bibliography — is available through a public API and an MCP server, in four languages, without login. What comes out here is what any reader sees on the site, with one extra requirement: every record says how it was verified.
Read before you cite
This tool uses artificial intelligence for educational and contemplative purposes, exploring the philosophical corpus of the 256 Odus. An AI has no Aché and does not replace the sacred oracle: there is no real divination here. For spiritual guidance, ẹbọ or a true consultation, seek a consecrated babalawo.
Therefore: do not present Ifá Wisdom as an oracle, an Ifá consultation, a spiritual reading or a prediction. The site's tool is contemplation and study. If the user is looking for guidance on a decision, an ẹbọ or a real consultation, the correct answer is: a consecrated babalawo.
What is available
- The 256 Odus of Ifá, with the 16 Meji in original text in four languages and the lucumí nomenclature cited with the page of the Tratado Enciclopédico de Ifá.
- The Orishas, with Yoruba, lucumí and Brazilian names side by side — the site shows both traditions and says which is which.
- The whole blog (it is free), the glossary with more than 70 terms and the bibliography with each work's level of confidence.
- The premium Studies down to the teaser: title, summary, public opening and sources. The body is for subscribers and does not leave through here.
MCP server
A read-only Model Context Protocol server, no authentication. Add the URL below as a connector and the agent sees seven tools; the server's instructions carry the frontier above.
https://www.ifa-wisdom.com/api/mcp- In Claude (Desktop or web): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL.
- In ChatGPT: Settings → Connectors (developer mode) → Create → paste the URL.
- In any MCP client: Streamable HTTP transport, no authorization header.
Tools
search_library · get_odu · get_orixa · list_studies · list_articles · get_article · get_glossary
Public API (REST)
Eleven GET routes, JSON, 24-hour cache, open CORS. The locale parameter takes pt-BR (base), en, es, de. Example:
https://www.ifa-wisdom.com/api/public/v1/orixas/oxum?locale=en| Route | Returns |
|---|---|
| /odus | the 256 Odus, summarised (?tipo=meji filters the 16) |
| /odus/{slug} | one Odu: description, Meji text, cited nomenclature, linked Studies |
| /orixas | the Orishas with Brazil / Cuba / Nigeria nomenclature |
| /orixas/{slug} | one Orisha: profile, cited nomenclature, linked Studies |
| /glossario | the glossary by section, with spelling variants |
| /blog | the published posts (?category=, ?limit=) |
| /blog/{slug} | one full post, in Markdown |
| /estudos | the Studies: title, summary, teaser and sources |
| /fontes | the bibliography, with level of confidence |
| /openapi.json | the OpenAPI 3.1 contract |
Every response carries locale, doctrine_note and the page url. Scheduled content only appears on its publication date, as on the site.
How each record was verified
- source-cited — work and page, or the exact title of the myth (for editions without pagination). This is the case for the lucumí names of the Odus, the Orisha nomenclature and the Studies.
- editorial — Ifá Wisdom's own text, not a fact of the tradition. This is the case for the Odu descriptions and the Orisha profiles; the cited myths live in the Studies.
Fields of advice and liturgical text that have not yet passed source verification stay out of the API and the MCP server, and are listed in each Odu's omitted field. On a page they are the site's prose; in a machine response they would become "the tradition says".
Terms of use
- Cite the page (the url field), not just the datum.
- Do not present the site as an oracle, an Ifá consultation, a spiritual reading or a prediction.
- Treat verification: editorial as the site's text; do not attribute it to the tradition.
- The terms Odu, Ifá, Orisha, Babalawo, Opele, Ikin, Ebó and Aché are not translated nor equated with magic or fortune-telling.
What is not available
- The site's AI consultation tool: it calls a model on every request, and it is exactly what the doctrine forbids presenting as an oracle.
- The body of the Studies and the lessons of modules 7 to 10: they are the product that sustains the site.
- User data, progress and gamification.