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Opele

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A named divining chain of Ifá practice. Not the Opon Ifá tray, and not a generic lot-tool under a chain name.

Also known as Ifá chain

Yoruba Ifá

  • Opele is used in Yoruba Ifá.

    Bascom describes the opele as the divining chain of Ifá, used when the palm-nut set is not cast. Instrument of that ethnography’s Ifá, not the opon Ifá tray and not ikin.

    from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969

    used in · sourced · culturally specific

  • Opele is used in Lots.

    Bascom describes the opele chain as the Ifá instrument that falls into a figure when the palm nuts are not cast. A named lots-chain of that ethnography, not ikin, and not the opon Ifá tray.

    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.