16 July 2010

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Opon Ifa (Ifa Divination Board) : ORIGIN: Yoruba, Nigeria, Africa (circa. pre-contact )


Parker Brother's Ouija Board : ORIGIN: US ( circa: early 1800's )

A recent Ifa reading made me wonder about how U.S businessman profited on creating an entire industry supplying divination supplies and rootwork stuffs to people in urban areas who had previous relied on nature for their materials.