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VG-(Boards are sunned and lightly edgeworn; ffep has been stamped with ink; interior is clean; binding is solid. ). Good (DJ is moderately edgeworn, with a few small closed tears around the edges; there is age-toning, light smudging and scuffing. ) Light purple boards with red title block and gilt lettering on the spine; color illustrated DJ with black and white lettering; top of textblock edge is dyed red; viii, 338 pp. "Ifa, teacher of gods and men, is the oracle of the Yoruba, an important West African people. Like I Ching, Ifa is a system of divination based on the casting of sacred objects to produce a set of signs--"hexagrams" in I Ching, 'odus' in Ifa. But unlike the codified Chinese system, Ifa is an oral tradition transmitted and revealed only by its priests in recitations, each of which is unique. This book contains one such recitation. It was give to Judith Gleason by Awotunde Aworinde, an Ifa priest in Nigeria, taped, and transcribed and translated by Mrs. Gleason in collaboration with John Olaniyi Orundipe, a Yoruba language teacher in New York. All 16 of the "major odus" are here, along with 25 castings (out of a possible 256) thrown on her behalf by Aworinde. These, together with a selection of Ifa chants and Mrs. Gleason's informative and lucid introduction, notes, and commentaries on each casting, make up [this book]."--DJ.
