Senioridade Oracular
uma reflexão sobre a senioridade do oráculo do Ẹ́ẹ́rìndinlógún sobre o oráculo de Ifá, segundo Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyewùmí
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https://doi.org/10.47661/afcl.v16i32.60951Keywords:
Ifa, Oracle, Seniority, Eerindinlogun, GenderAbstract
The Ẹ́ẹ́rìndinlógún consists of an oracular system made up of sixteen cowries, being one of the vehicles for interpreting the philosophy of Ọ̀rúnmìlà. However, according to Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyewùmí the lens of gender that blurred the eyes of Western scholars and Yorùbá scholars influenced by the West led to a distortion of the philosophy of Ọ̀rúnmìlà, causing a binary and hierarchical division between the oracular systems that interpret the Odù Ifá. A binary division that elevated the Ifá oracle as masculine and superior and reduced the Ẹ́ẹ́rìndinlógún as feminine and therefore inferior. In this paper, based on Oyewùmí’s thought, we will defend the thesis that the Ẹ́ẹ́rìndinlógún is, in fact, the senior oracle and that the origins of Ifá occurred with Ọ̀ṣun, showing that for Ifá reverence is in seniority and not in gender.
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