Divining processes are diverse, but all follow set routines by which otherwise inaccessible information is obtained. The diviner may utilize a fixed corpus, such as the Yoruba Ifa Odu verses, or a more diffuse body of esoteric knowledge. This knowledge may or may not be literally expressed during the interpretation of the oracular message. In a very real sense, as the Yoruba of Nigeria explicitly state about their system of Ifa, a divination system constitutes a people’s “book of knowledge” wherein their history and cultural guidelines are maintained.Ī divination system is a standardized process deriving from a learned discipline based on an extensive body of knowledge. Divination is an incredibly rich area for anthropological research-in fact, I would argue that there is no richer ethnography of a culture than the study of its divination system.
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