Aba: the process of chanelling ase for the elevation of one's self
Aboru, aboye, abosise: verbal salutations to high priest (may the offerings be accepted, may the offerings be carried, may the offerings bring about change.
Adimu: food offerings.
Adura: prayer
Aiye: earth
Ajagun: the benevolent angelic forces comprised of esu, ogun, osoosi, osun.
Ajo inu: inner journey
Ajogun: the negating entities
Ajubona: spiritual teachers who assist the newly initiated to understand the basic fundamentals of the religion.
Akifa: one who studies of the odu, but is not a babalawo
Apere: fulfillment through spiritual knowledge, absortion into the divine spiritual essence.
Apetibi: the wife or wives of the babalawo
Arojinle: concentration
Ase: the essence of nature and creative force which brings it about and directs it.
Awe: fasting
Awo; priest/mysteries
Babalorisa: priest of the orisa
Balaga: the state when spiritual consciousness first awakens.
Bembes: religous gatherings held in order to honor the orisa.
Da ma: the quieting of the senses and actions so that one can reach the state of contemplation/meditation
Difa fun: to divine for
Dobale: prostration as a religious form.
Dundun: fried plantain
Ebo: sacrificial offerings to the divinities.
Ebo eje: blood offerings to the divinities
Efun: the white chalk-like substance use for ritual purification
Eleha: spiritual seclusion
Emi: breath of life.
Eni: straw mat
Ese: verses of the sixteen odu.
Etutu: rituals
Ewe: spiritual herbs used for medicinal and spiritual purposes.
Ewo: undesirable ways and habits that keep one earthbound and flesh inprisoned.
Gba segbe: the act of initiating a disciple into the spiritual way of life
Ibori: sacrifices made to the ori
Idake roro: silence or non-talking for the purpose of spiritual progression.
Ide: wristbeads worn by ifa devotees in order to avert death
Ifa: the dimensions, which hold as light impressions, the totality of past, present, future ocurrences; the way of supreme wisdom; principles and virtuous living in accordance with the ultimate harmonious nature of beings; the essence of yoruba cultural wisdom and religiosity.
Ifaiya: alignment; as being aligned with one's destiny
Ifaromi: attachments to the illusions of the world.
Igba: calabash
Igbodu: the sacred grove or construct used for high priest initiation.
Ikin: the sacred palmnuts which represent the wisdom of orunmila.
Ikoso control, restraint
Ile tawo lona: temple of the mystic path.
Ile ife. Sacred city of the ifa religion in south west nigeria.
Ilere ipin: witness of fate (another name for orunmila)
Imo: knowkledge
Imule: sacred oaths
Iponri: innermost being of a person, where greed,lust desires, and other worldly hindrances don't exist.
Isaro: meditation
Isefa: ritual where by initiates are presented the one hand of orunmila.
Ita divination performed for priestly initiates revealing the divine behavior, endeavors, and directives which need to be developed and maintained.
Iwa laiye: a moral righteous way of life which maintains itself without regression.
Iwa lewa: divine energy inherent in the beauty of nature.
Iwuye: initiations, coronations
Iyalorisa: priestess of the orisa.
Iyanla: the great mother
Iyawo: priestly initiates (to be humbled)
Iyere: ifa chants
Kekere awo: a newly initiated babalawo:
Kekere oppn: small divining tray.
Korin: chanting of divinities name for the purpose of purification.
Merindilogun: 16 cowries used for divination.
Oba: king and/or chief
Obi abata: the kola nuts when used for divination.
Ogbo ato: live long prosper in life (response of the babalawo to verbal salutation.
Oni: religious head of the Yoruba culture.
Onifa: those who have received the one hand of orunmila.
Opele: the divining chain of the babalawo.
Ori: the orisa of one's own consciousness.
Oriki: praise songs.
Oruko nro ni: one's name affects character and behavior.
Sise awo: work which educate one in the way of the esoteric teachings.
Ti lye. : physical and mental acts affects one's future incarnastions.
Aboru, aboye, abosise: verbal salutations to high priest (may the offerings be accepted, may the offerings be carried, may the offerings bring about change.
Adimu: food offerings.
Adura: prayer
Aiye: earth
Ajagun: the benevolent angelic forces comprised of esu, ogun, osoosi, osun.
Ajo inu: inner journey
Ajogun: the negating entities
Ajubona: spiritual teachers who assist the newly initiated to understand the basic fundamentals of the religion.
Akifa: one who studies of the odu, but is not a babalawo
Apere: fulfillment through spiritual knowledge, absortion into the divine spiritual essence.
Apetibi: the wife or wives of the babalawo
Arojinle: concentration
Ase: the essence of nature and creative force which brings it about and directs it.
Awe: fasting
Awo; priest/mysteries
Babalorisa: priest of the orisa
Balaga: the state when spiritual consciousness first awakens.
Bembes: religous gatherings held in order to honor the orisa.
Da ma: the quieting of the senses and actions so that one can reach the state of contemplation/meditation
Difa fun: to divine for
Dobale: prostration as a religious form.
Dundun: fried plantain
Ebo: sacrificial offerings to the divinities.
Ebo eje: blood offerings to the divinities
Efun: the white chalk-like substance use for ritual purification
Eleha: spiritual seclusion
Emi: breath of life.
Eni: straw mat
Ese: verses of the sixteen odu.
Etutu: rituals
Ewe: spiritual herbs used for medicinal and spiritual purposes.
Ewo: undesirable ways and habits that keep one earthbound and flesh inprisoned.
Gba segbe: the act of initiating a disciple into the spiritual way of life
Ibori: sacrifices made to the ori
Idake roro: silence or non-talking for the purpose of spiritual progression.
Ide: wristbeads worn by ifa devotees in order to avert death
Ifa: the dimensions, which hold as light impressions, the totality of past, present, future ocurrences; the way of supreme wisdom; principles and virtuous living in accordance with the ultimate harmonious nature of beings; the essence of yoruba cultural wisdom and religiosity.
Ifaiya: alignment; as being aligned with one's destiny
Ifaromi: attachments to the illusions of the world.
Igba: calabash
Igbodu: the sacred grove or construct used for high priest initiation.
Ikin: the sacred palmnuts which represent the wisdom of orunmila.
Ikoso control, restraint
Ile tawo lona: temple of the mystic path.
Ile ife. Sacred city of the ifa religion in south west nigeria.
Ilere ipin: witness of fate (another name for orunmila)
Imo: knowkledge
Imule: sacred oaths
Iponri: innermost being of a person, where greed,lust desires, and other worldly hindrances don't exist.
Isaro: meditation
Isefa: ritual where by initiates are presented the one hand of orunmila.
Ita divination performed for priestly initiates revealing the divine behavior, endeavors, and directives which need to be developed and maintained.
Iwa laiye: a moral righteous way of life which maintains itself without regression.
Iwa lewa: divine energy inherent in the beauty of nature.
Iwuye: initiations, coronations
Iyalorisa: priestess of the orisa.
Iyanla: the great mother
Iyawo: priestly initiates (to be humbled)
Iyere: ifa chants
Kekere awo: a newly initiated babalawo:
Kekere oppn: small divining tray.
Korin: chanting of divinities name for the purpose of purification.
Merindilogun: 16 cowries used for divination.
Oba: king and/or chief
Obi abata: the kola nuts when used for divination.
Ogbo ato: live long prosper in life (response of the babalawo to verbal salutation.
Oni: religious head of the Yoruba culture.
Onifa: those who have received the one hand of orunmila.
Opele: the divining chain of the babalawo.
Ori: the orisa of one's own consciousness.
Oriki: praise songs.
Oruko nro ni: one's name affects character and behavior.
Sise awo: work which educate one in the way of the esoteric teachings.
Ti lye. : physical and mental acts affects one's future incarnastions.