My two experiences with Babalawos were both second hand – As a child, a family member brought me a herbal treatment for a skin condition that befuddled orthodox medicine and had been going on for a year.It completely disappeared 2 weeks after I started the Baba’s green ointment. I still have the scars from where the Yaba Hospital (orthodox medicine) did a biopsy and later thinned my skin trying to understand whether I had some kind of cancer or fungus, before Yoruba science came to my rescue.The other time was when money was stolen, and a family member took suspects to a Baba in order to discern which was the thief. He was correctly identified by divination. When I got back from work and heard what went on, I wasn’t really convinced but then he confessed as he was packing his things to leave!Wailed loudly about his reasons for taking the money and what he did with it. He was also a relative so we still saw afterwards but I didn’t get the chance to ask him how surprised he was to be outed by Ifa.
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Ifa Initiation: Receiving Sango In this week’s post I’ll be discussing the powerful experience of initiation. In Ifa we become priests of our Guardian Orisa. It is also possible to “receive” any, or all of, the others. Over the course of the last year I decided that it was time for me to receive Sango.
My curiosity was ignited since then.The list of things Babalawos are said to be able to resolve is long and sometimes incredulous but I never scoff, because of my own experience. The world is full of mysteries and it’s not only pharma companies that have the keys.Both pilloried and revered in different measures by the Nigerian movie industry, over the many years since Westernisation and foreign faiths entered the homeland shores,Babalawos remain a mystery to many of us. Whenever I get the chance and a Baba that’s forthcoming with answers I always use the opportunity to solve as many mysteries as possible.Babalawo Ajagun is also an Onisegun, and after celebrating his Ifa Festival on 28th July he has been carrying out Ifa initiations.He’s great with answering my curious questions. I asked him about his Ifa festival and also the initiations. Baba’s godson from USA who attended his Ifa festival and also got initiated on the same day.
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Baba Ajagun has a certificate in Electronic Data Processing from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. He was an apprentice for 15 years under his late father who was also a Babalawo and has been practicing fully as a Babalawo for 15 years. He was initiated into Obatala and has apprentices all over the world in Ghana, Togo, Benin, USa, UK, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago. He teaches herbal remedy, leaves and roots, as well as Ifa studies. His abode is next to Ooni of Ife’s palace in Ile Ife.
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