The Sacred IFA Oracle
by Afolabi A. Epega, Philip John Neimark
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Author: Afolabi A. Epega, Philip John NeimarkEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); Yoruba (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10
ISBN: 189015718X
Number of pages: 547
Publisher: Athelia Henrietta PR
Book Reviews of The Sacred IFA Oracle
Book Review: poor!
Summary: 2 Stars
The idea was great - translate a chunk of the corpus of Ifa into English to make this great library of wisdom available to all those who don't speak Yoruba. But the execution of the project leaves much to desire!
There has - and probably always will be - a huge hype about Philip Neimark and his Ifa practice. Yes, he is different and yes, what he does is not the Cuban Ifa religion but some type of Folk-Ifa from Nigeria...or at least what's left over after the sell-out, Christianization the influence of Islam and a couple of hundred years of hereditary titles rather then religious education! Oh well! To each their own!
The title of this book - "The Sacred IFA Oracle" - is quite misleading! It should be called "a very short selection of verses from the corpus of Ifa myths with some bits of Neimarkian philosophy".
My Yoruba speaking friends love this book simply for the fact that it has some of the Ifa verses in Yoruba. The English translation however are simply not good enough! To be blunt....they su^&! I'm not impressed!
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