Any Atlanta brehs notice the amount of people practicing Ifa here?

[Bawon Samedi]

Like I said Ifa has got to be among the coolest religion screw Greek and Norse religion... A cool short movie.


I hear Oya was[is] quite beautiful. Also something about Ifa religion seems VERY "superhero-ish."

 

[Grizzly]

Yall got that out yall system now? Cool

 

[Bigblackted4]

Like I said Ifa has got to be among the coolest religion screw Greek and Norse religion... A cool short movie.


I hear Oya was[is] quite beautiful. Also something about Ifa religion seems VERY "superhero-ish."

Watched it with my girl and found this dope af

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

Like I said Ifa has got to be among the coolest religion screw Greek and Norse religion... A cool short movie.


I hear Oya was[is] quite beautiful. Also something about Ifa religion seems VERY "superhero-ish."

I watched like every drop of that

 

[ski]

Mexicans not cubans and our Nigerian brehs. and literally the same thing as going to get a bath or blessed by the juju guys in London. Anyone in atlanta in tune with the streets have noticed in the past 4 years it's africans have started running around the city looking like the new bmf. Their Also making a killing in Houston right now.

when you see formally broke or hand to mouth guys all of a sudden start stunting heavy and they have new trinkets on their wrist/necks, blessed beads and random stones, pebbles and rocks in the pockets or on their car dashboards, around their homes then you know they've been blessed by a witch or priest.

Ifa is older than all organized religions and the magic (energy manipulation) is real. Ifa seems to make guys much more humble and almost nonviolent, but at the same time way more dangerous. It's Like a slow burning fire behind their eyes, it's hard to explain if you haven't been around people practicing. It has beautiful customs but also some very scary shyt. Once we get into manipulating the energies of our world and asking for guidance from our ancestors in the spirit world, financial payment and blood sacrifice will be necessary.

No Plug and them are into Ifa heavy and the night he killed Bankroll, Bank's crew fired over 50 shots at his car and he wasn't hit once. Bankroll was then killed by a ricocheted bullet shot by no plug from the same gun he took from bankroll like 5 minutes earlier. Seriously what are the odds of some shyt like that happening?

I know of a guy that had his protection rock stolen from him early in the day and he was arrested by the feds later that night. shyt gets real

If these people are practicing true Ifa, then it includes Iwa Pele (good character). Without good character you run into problems. Could be why the h3rpes.scandal happened. It is rumored said person practices ifa or something similar. If he stepped out of good character then there are repercussions. No magic will protect.

 

[Cant Ban The Snow Man]

What is Ifa? One poster mentioned African religions and gods like Oshun but is this connected to Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah? Also, what is green magic?

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Go read about the rituals they performed to Ogun, a Yoruba orisha, before they started the Haitian revolution.

Dude, you're absolutely false and in fact, you'ono what da fukk you talkin' about.

 

[BigMan]

What is Ifa? One poster mentioned African religions and gods like Oshun but is this connected to Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah? Also, what is green magic?

Read through the thread
Ifa is a Yoruba religion, related to Santeria
Obeah is Jamaican with Igbo and Akan origins
Voodoo is Haitian

 

[Guvnor]

Every practice in Africa is not good. There are many customs that were practiced prior to colonization that was taboo and down right unethical. Ifa is a take and give practice boarder line occultist. This is coming from someone who is Nigerian and lived there. A lot of this is generational and not something you can exit or abandon your shrine without several rituals and offerings.

You must got IFA and Palo mixed up IFA is about Iwa pele and IWA rere and building good charter.

Alafia ooo!

I study on and off but I havent found a mentor I like cuz my baba actually knows very little and my other baba is fam who is locked up. My life path has me doing Ifa as my source of income, Im supposed to be a teacher. But again I have my own plans for my destiny and wilder than most ppl view. But I love the mythology and the patakis, images of black superhero GODS that triumph and bicker and suffer like we do.... Its a pretty thing

I got my idde, elekes, my warriors but i havent crowned if thats what you asking

Facts a lot of amazing stories and wisdom but you lucky as hell man. You got a baba in your fam?

How did you find the baba you with now? I'm looking for one cause the one I was with was a money hungry fraud

Also damn man, did you get a life reading?

I was supposed to get my warriors from this other Babalawo I was talking too and stuff too but I wasn't ready at the time and still not ready lol.

Have you ever thought about going to either Nigeria or Brazil?

Brazil for example, especially Bahia, has the best Olukun worshippers and their knowledge of ifa is the best in black diaspora because the communication link back and forth between Brazil and Nigerian Yorubas has been there since the 1800s. Majority of the returnee slaves who're Yorubas were from Brazil and they were the ones who used their wealth and expertise, to foster the Yoruba renaissance in Lagos, in the late 1800s. A lot of Yoruba ifa practitioners and kings from Nigeria also visit Brazil all the time.

And if you can take time out to travel to Nigeria and probably visit ile ife - you'd meet people who would help you out.

Truth be told I know least about Brazil and mostly learn info from the Cubans. Don't Brazil got a big race issue as well I have to look into their traditions though.

I don't have to read anything. I know my history. Ezili Danter even had scars that were more similar to the Dahomey Amazonians. The Yorubas did not have that many mother-like warrior women like the Dahomey. Ogun was NOT a women.

Man you lying, they got Oya who fukks shyt up, Oshun who one of the wickedest withces when you piss her off and Yemeya the great mother. Besides this whole arguing about which tradition is better shyt is kinda silly.

Black power, we them nikkas yo. Kings and Queens all over the place!

 

[Guvnor]

Yea Yemaya worship is big in Latin America and sometimes practiced with Olokun I dont know if yall Nigerians do it differently since yall have the source. I know Shango was linked to Obba first then he stole Oya from Ogun causing a rivalry then he got with Oshun and then Ogun got with Oshun its some soap opera shyt lmao

Ogun and Shango are like enemies. I would be mad if I was ogun too and Oshun danced me all out the forrest and shyt when I was mad then she with Shango lol.

Which reminds me, I hear Yemeya is not the Orisha of the Sea? why do the cubans teach that? According to the nigerians she is from a river.

It's Loa in voodun. Orisha is for IFA /Santeria/ Palo Mayobme. Don't know what you two were debating but it's loa or lwa.

Nah Palo deals with nganga and pots. That shyt is spooky.

I say that respectfully Do not mix up Palo and IFA.

Santería - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

Fam look at this link

Lol that's nothing. In Nigeria they had to check a few people for letting whites in the religion and giving them fancy titles they didn't really earn.

Like I said Ifa has got to be among the coolest religion screw Greek and Norse religion... A cool short movie.


I hear Oya was[is] quite beautiful. Also something about Ifa religion seems VERY "superhero-ish."

Dope film, I got to check out this one by the same creator
Yemoja: Rise of the Orisha - The series (Premium edition)

This one too


And this lol

 

[Dontay Flaco]

Damn I got a lot of catching up to do in this thread.

 

[Guvnor]

What is Ifa? One poster mentioned African religions and gods like Oshun but is this connected to Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah? Also, what is green magic?

Well it's similar to voodoo and obeah because people do get possessed in this religion, it deals with many deities and it's African in origin but it's different how it's practiced. IFA and Santeria usually deal with initation where as Voodoo and Obeah people can do it at will if they know what they are doing and they are a lot more amoral in the way they are practiced. A way to look at it is IFA is a religion from the Yoruba in Nigeria and it involves a supreme god or Orisha known as oludamare and others who work for him basically. Santeria on the other hand is a Cuban tradition of IFA practiced here in the diaspora. It was brought over her by way of slavery, basically slaves were taken from the yoruba people and brought to cuba and they kept their practices going in secret. This was done in a way that preserved the religion and it involved hiding the orisha's behind catholic saints. An Example is Oshun the godess of love was hid by the catholic Caridad del Cobre or Our Lady of Charity in english. They basically looked at the catholic saints and the traits of them, found similarities and hid their deities behind them. There are some that still practice this way and are strong catholics but it's not the only way.

Oshun

(Yes that's beyonce)
Caridad Del Cobre

Others who preserved the tradition are the shango baptist in Trinidad who mix what they do with baptist Christianity, the candomble of Brazil and a few others but some people in Nigeria still practice IFA as well.

If you want to learn more you could read my post here
http://www.thecoli.com/posts/23877547/

Or visit my thread and watch some of the videos in the OP
The African Traditional And Diasporic Religions Thread (Santeria, IFA, 21 Divisions, Sanse + etc)

I don't know what's Green magic but I guess plants.

 

[Cant Ban The Snow Man]

Well it's similar to voodoo and obeah because people do get possessed in this religion, it deals with many deities and it's African in origin but it's different how it's practiced. IFA and Santeria usually deal with initation where as Voodoo and Obeah people can do it at will if they know what they are doing and they are a lot more amoral in the way they are practiced. A way to look at it is IFA is a religion from the Yoruba in Nigeria and it involves a supreme god or Orisha known as oludamare and others who work for him basically. Santeria on the other hand is a Cuban tradition of IFA practiced here in the diaspora. It was brought over her by way of slavery, basically slaves were taken from the yoruba people and brought to cuba and they kept their practices going in secret. This was done in a way that preserved the religion and it involved hiding the orisha's behind catholic saints. An Example is Oshun the godess of love was hid by the catholic Caridad del Cobre or Our Lady of Charity in english. They basically looked at the catholic saints and the traits of them, found similarities and hid their deities behind them. There are some that still practice this way and are strong catholics but it's not the only way.

Oshun

(Yes that's beyonce)
Caridad Del Cobre

Others who preserved the tradition are the shango baptist in Trinidad who mix what they do with baptist Christianity, the candomble of Brazil and a few others but some people in Nigeria still practice IFA as well.

If you want to learn more you could read my post here
http://www.thecoli.com/posts/23877547/

Or visit my thread and watch some of the videos in the OP
The African Traditional And Diasporic Religions Thread (Santeria, IFA, 21 Divisions, Sanse + etc)

I don't know what's Green magic but I guess plants.

Oh ok thanks for explanation.

 

[BlackDynamite310]

I'm in LA. Any books or videos I can read to find some more info on this?

 

[Guvnor]

I'm in LA. Any books or videos I can read to find some more info on this?

Videos in this thread
The African Traditional And Diasporic Religions Thread (Santeria, IFA, 21 Divisions, Sanse + etc)

Also you can check out this book called Teachings Of The Santeria Gods or Babalawo Santeria's High Priests. Another book you can check out is The Secrets Of Afro Cuban Divination which teaches some of the ideas behind the outcomes of the readings in the religion.