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Ayé and òrun, òrìṣà, orí
A source, òrìṣà who are not interchangeable, ancestors, and a person with orí. Ifá is a way of knowing. Diaspora houses are related, not copies.
Do not collapse òrìṣà into one ‘African god,’ and do not treat Lucumí or Candomblé as the same file.
Olódùmarè, distinct òrìṣà, ancestors, orí, ayé and òrun. Ifá knows by divination. Diaspora is adjacent, not the same entry.
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Source
Olódùmarè or Olórun in many accounts. Not a single scripture.
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Ayé and òrun
Visible and invisible. Not a Meru.
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Òrìṣà and ancestors
Many persons. Do not merge them.
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Person with orí
Destiny and relation, not a generic soul-chart.
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The dead as ancestors
Return in the line is common and not one rule.
- Time
- Not a world-apocalypse and not a kalpa wheel in this record.
- Agents
- Òrìṣà, ancestors, the living.
- Human slot
- To stand in one’s orí and be capable of being remembered.
- Break
- Destructive agents appear in oral accounts. No single official dualism.