"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. It would be helpful to those either just getting started or as a quick reference for the inititated. The book discusses the differences and similarities between the Orisha and provides prayers and offering suggestions. This is a very short, helpful guide to understanding Yemoja / Olokun. During the initiation of Adebolu Fatunmise at the moment of reading it was foretold that he would teach a white Babalawo in practice and that Babalawo turned out to be Awo Falokun Fatunmbi, the author of a number of books about the Ifa Orisa tradition. His main teacher became Adebolu Fatunmise, who was initiated at the age of 7 in Ifa (Kekere Awo a young Babalawo). As is typical of sea gods, Olokun is capricious and quick to anger. One named Elusu delighted him so much he married her. Yemaya emerged as the preeminent Yoruba spirit of the sea in the Western Hemisphere. Some legends state that Olokun, one of the Orishas, couldn’t keep up in the deity rival stakes and settled for a sea-bed existence, which kept him in the swim with lots of holy fish maidens. For 25 years Baba has been traveling around Nigeria, collecting little by little the Ifa knowledge. In African Diaspora traditions, Olokun resides at the bottom of the sea. Baba got the initiation in Ifa in Ode Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria in Ile Ogunti Ode Remo. Awo Baba Falokun Fatunmbi is a white North American, who at the age of 38 visited Nigeria with the purpose of studying the Yoruba traditions Ifa Orisa.
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