Orunmila is the only person among the descendants of God who can give prophesies of the future, the present and can change the future outcome of situations in order to bring us more perfection, power, success and happiness.
Orunmila is the custodian of the wisdom of IFA, along with Esu, the Sacred Child of Heaven, Lagemo Orun. Without Esu, none of the divination or sacrifices could be completed with success. It is he who encompassed and encompasses the entire order of the Yoruba cosmology, as he IS deity, prayed to and the prayer.
The first Babalawo priest who walked the earth was named Orunmila. But who is the savior priest who brought IFA to the people? The odus and their verses are road maps that can guide one in detail through life towards the things that all living beings cherish: long life, health, family, children, love, money, position in life, freedom from loss, victory over sickness and death. Ifa is the living body of wisdom handed down by Olodumare, given to Orunmila, the first diviner priest and the only one who is witness to our destiny in the spiritual realm when we are ready to be born. He used this wisdom to heal and resolve all human problems that come with living on this earth as well as training the diviner priests who came to be known as “Babalawo”, priest of Ifa who are teachers and know the secrets contained within the 256 odu, and how to use that knowledge to help us attain our perfect destiny. The odus are the wombs which each one of us come from, with our own unique road or path that constitute all of the possibilities inherent in one’s life destiny-positive and negative. Ifa embodies the wisdom of life, truth, the revealing of destiny and destination. The 256 odu signatures of Ifa and the thousands of ese/verses they contain, comprise all of the science, cosmology, metaphysics, medicine and wisdom held within that sacred ground. Within the oral corpus of the Ifa divination and worship system resides the soul and beating heart of the Yoruba people as a whole. When one speaks of the Yoruba people, culture and their traditions, it is impossible to separate the subject from Odu Ifa.
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