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Ikin

Named sacred palm nuts of Ifá divination. Not the Opele chain, not the Opon Ifá tray, and not a generic lot.

Also known as Ifá palm nuts

Yoruba Ifá

Ikin is used in Yoruba Ifá.
Bascom describes ikin, the sacred palm nuts of Ifá, as the lots cast on the tray. Instrument of that ethnography’s Ifá, not the opele chain and not the opon Ifá board.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Ikin is used in Divination.
Bascom describes ikin, the sixteen sacred palm nuts, as the primary lots manipulated to produce Ifá figures. A named palm-nut use in that divination craft, not used_in→yoruba-ifa already filed and not opele as the chain alternative.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Ikin is sacred to Yoruba Ifá.
Bascom states that sacrifices to Ifá are offered to his sixteen palm nuts, as Shango’s are offered to thunder-celts — the nuts receive the rite as Ifá’s sacred set. A named sacred job of ikin in that ethnography, not used_in instrument already filed and not opele as the chain.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Ivory is historically related to Ikin.
Bascom records ivory spheroids and carved ivory ‘nuts’ used as substitutes for the sixteen palm nuts in some sets and traveler reports. A named ivory–ikin neighborhood in that ethnography, not a claim that ivory is ikin and not opele as the chain.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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