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Ifa (Religion) (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 3

Preferred form: Ifa (Religion)

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Work cat.: Ifa, su historia en Cuba, 1996 (identified as Yoruba religion, now common throughout the Caribbean Area and Brazil)

Communication from Rudy Talma, native Trinidadian Shango drummer (most Caribbean cults of African origin include divination)

Eliade encyc. relig.: v. 15, p. 537 (Ifa divination under Yoruba religion)

Dict. comp. rel.: p. 43 (cult of Ifa, centered in S.W. Nigeria but spread from Ghana to Cameroun)

Dict. cults, sects, rel. (Ifa)

Parrinder, G. Dict. non-Christian religions (Ifa: a west African system of geomancy)

Leach, M. Guide to the gods (Ifa: god of divination and oracles. Nigeria, Brazil, and Puerto Rico)

Kakpo, M. Lesépouses de Fa : écits de la parole sacrée du Bénin, 2007.

Valdostamuseum Website, 3 Nov. 2010 (IFA, the indigenous religion of Africa. The Orisha FA is also known as IFA... )