Ọrunmila
c. 800 CE – 2026 CEattested
Ile-Ife
- Yoruba
Orisha of wisdom and divination, who was present when each person chose their destiny and therefore remembers what they picked. The Ifá system consulted through him runs to hundreds of memorised verses.
Known for
- witness to every destiny chosen
- the Ifá corpus
- divination as recall
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.