Yoruba
The name Yourba in Africa encompasses a group of people that speak the 
same language and live within certain boundaries in West Africa. We 
exist here on earth expressing our different attitudes and energies. 
We each strive on a daily basis to better our sojourn here on earth. 
Ifa is the medium with which our individual strengths are expounded 
upon enabling us to express our different attitudes in harmony with 
one another. 

Ifa is also a means of exposing the weaknesses we have that block our 
path to success, happiness and longevity. Before there was any sort of 
writing there was Ifa. Ifa at this time, of course, was oral. In Africa, 
specific individuals spent their entire life, from childhood, learning 
Ifa verses. These verses number in the thousands and express every single 

facet and possibility in life. Ifa verses cover the creation of this 
earth, the creation of every animal species, man and even this computer. 
Ifa is the totality of our earthly and heavenly realms and gives us a direct 
and individual phone number to God.
The Orisha are manifestations of God created to help us understand each 
piece of life's puzzle.Ifa helps us put the pieces together and identify 
which piece we represent. In other words, knowing exactly who you are and 
what your destiny is makes achieving your goals fundamental. This information 
enables us to avoid trial-by-error, which causes so much vanity and 
frustration in our lives. The Orisha are all within Ifa and serve as an 
individual focal point for our prayers and aspirations. The differences 
between the 401+ Orisha serve as a spiritual medium that is suitable for our 
individual attitudes.

Ifa assists us in identifying which Orisha force to align ourselves with, 
thereby increasing our chances for true success. If we take the Creation 
Myth of Ifá, Obatala climbs down the chain from Heaven to Earth. The chain 
is symbolic of the double helix which is the form found within genes used 
to store DNA (Also known as the Staff of Tehuti Or the Caduceus).

The journey from Heaven to Earth is a reference to the emergence of hidden 
or latent potential into manifest reality. 
When you are in the womb you would have invisible potential as a child, and 
after you are born that potential becomes manifest. The womb is the 
passageway between heaven and earth; it is the doorway that allows for 
reincarnation.