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The Diloggún Bible
A multi-volume educational work devoted to the Diloggún, the speaking Odú, the Orisha, Patakís, and responsible interpretive study.
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Foundation before interpretation.
The series is designed as a progressive course of study: foundations first, then the twelve speaking Odú, sacred stories, the Orisha compendium, and finally worked interpretations.
Six conceptual volumes are presented in seven physical books. Volume V is one continuous Orisha Compendium, divided into V-A and V-B.
It supports serious public education while remaining explicit about its limits. Reading does not replace divination, initiation, elder-guided formation, lineage instruction, or religious authorization.
Published and documented volumes
The reading path.
Descriptions are drawn from the author’s supplied manuscripts. Purchase links will be added as individual editions are confirmed.
Step 01 · Volume I — Diloggún Foundations
Foundations of the Sixteen Cowries, Odú, Iré, Osogbo, Patakí, Ashe, Ethics, and the Living Grammar of the Oracle
The foundational volume in a multi-volume educational work devoted to public study of the Diloggún. It establishes vocabulary, structure, ethics, and interpretive context before the later volumes move into the speaking Odú, sacred stories, Orisha, and applied interpretation.
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Step 02 · Volume II — The Twelve Speaking Odú, Part I
Odú 1–6: Okana, Eji Oko, Ogundá, Irosun, Oché, and Obara
A serious educational study of the first six speaking Odú, organized to help readers understand their identities, forces, proverbs, stories, blessings, difficulties, corrections, and responsible interpretation.
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Step 03 · Volume III — The Twelve Speaking Odú, Part II
Odú 7–12: Odí, Unle / Ogbe / Eyeunle, Osá, Ofún, Owani / Ojuani, and Eyilá / Ejilá
The companion to Volume II, this volume studies the second six speaking Odú and the interpretive patterns, human conditions, consequences, and forms of correction associated with them.
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Step 04 · Volume IV — Patakís
Patakís: The Sacred Stories of the Twelve Speaking Odú
A public-facing collection and study of sacred teaching stories associated with the twelve speaking Odú. The book approaches Patakís as sources of memory, moral reflection, character, consequence, and interpretive wisdom—not as free-standing ritual instructions.
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Step 05 · Volume V-A — The Orisha Compendium, Part I
Source, Roads, Head, Warriors, Waters, Fire, Wind, Love, Illness, and Ancient Mothers
Part I of the unified Orisha Compendium gathers the Orishas and sacred powers of the Lucumí tradition into a sustained work of public theology. It begins at the supreme source and divine authority, then moves through the opener of roads, the white cloth and sacred head, the Warriors, the great waters, fire, wind, love, affliction, the ancient mothers, and the volcanic force beneath the earth. The volume develops meaning, stories, symbols, relationships, character lessons, and spiritual counsel as fully as the public record permits while respecting the boundary between public understanding and consecrated knowledge. This is the first of two physical books that together form Volume V of The Diloggún Bible.
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Step 06 · Volume V-B — The Orisha Compendium, Part II
Earth, Mountain, Forest, Medicine, Children, Fertility, Wealth, Music, Serpent, Ancestors, Death, and Secrecy
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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Step 07 · Volume VI — Sample Readings and Interpretations
Applied Dilogún Interpretation: Thirty Worked Readings
Thirty teaching cases that demonstrate interpretive reasoning across basic, intermediate, and advanced examples. The cases are educational models—not personal fortunes, initiation, or authorization to practice.
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