object

Ikin

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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

    used in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • Ifa Divination · William Bascom

    William Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa.