Part II completes the unified Orisha Compendium. It continues the work without restarting it, beginning at Chapter 25 and moving from primordial foundation and the living earth through mountain and field, sacred tree and forest medicine, divine children and fertility, wealth and sacred music, the rainbow serpent, deep-earth guardians, and finally the ancestral dead, death itself, and sacred secrecy.
Some of the deepest and most guarded subjects in the compendium appear here. The book therefore maintains the same discipline as Part I: public meaning is developed fully while operative methods, consecrated knowledge, and lineage-specific practice remain within the living tradition.
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Detailed contents overview
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01
Foundation, earth, mountain, field, and sacred tree Oduduwa, Onilé, Oke, Orisha Oko, and Iroko
02
Forest and medicine Osain, Aroni, and Inle
03
Children, fertility, and birth Ibeyji, Korikoto, and Dada
04
Wealth, music, and sacred sound Ajé Chaluga and Añá
05
Rainbow and the guardians of the deep earth Oshumare, Boromú, and Boronsiá
06
Ancestors, death, and sacred secrecy Egún, Ikú, and Oró
Author commentary
Why this book exists.
Volume V-B is the second gate of the same work begun in V-A. It begins at Chapter 25 because The Orisha Compendium is one continuous architecture, not two unrelated books.
Part II moves deeper into the powers of foundation, earth, medicine, fertility, sacred sound, ancestry, death, and secrecy. These include some of the gravest matters the religion keeps. The public theology is therefore presented as fully as the record permits while the operative knowledge of medicine, sacred drums, ancestral work, death, and secrecy remains where the tradition itself keeps it.
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Can this book support the free foundations course?
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