Editing Cleromancy (section)

==In West African culture==
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In [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] and Yoruba-inspired religions, [[babalawo]]s use variations on a common type of cleromancy called [[Ifá|''Ifá divination'']]. Ifá divination is performed by "pounding ikin"—transferring consecrated oil palm kernels from one hand to another to create a pattern of eight to sixteen marks called "Odù" onto a tray of ''iyerosun'', or consecrated termite dust from the Irosun tree. The casting itself is called ''Dafá'' in [[Yoruba language]] speaking areas in West Africa. Similar to [[I Ching]], this form of divination forms a binary-like series of eight broken or unbroken pairs. This allows for 256 combinations, each of which references sets of tonal poems that contain a structure that includes various issues, problems and adversities and the prescriptions of offerings to correct them.