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Yorùbá Religion (Ifá) Roles

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Divinity Atlas. "Yorùbá Religion (Ifá) Roles." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/religiousrole/yoruba-religion-ifa-roles.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Yorùbá Religion (Ifá) Roles. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/religiousrole/yoruba-religion-ifa-roles

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@misc{divinityatlas-yor-b-religion-if-roles,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Yorùbá Religion (Ifá) Roles},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/religiousrole/yoruba-religion-ifa-roles},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Religious roles within Yoruba religion, Ifá, a living West African tradition whose priesthood and divination, babalawo and iyanifa among them, belong to its own initiated community and rest on lengthy training and initiation rather than appointment from outside it.

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