the Roads of Duklẽ: A Manual Combined Figures Afa, for Bokono

"Two hundred and forty combined figures stand in the great house of Afa / Ifa - every possible meeting of the sixteen against each other, Right against Left. This volume carries the first forty-five: every road that begins with Gbe, with Yeku, or with Woli standing at the gate."The Roads of the Duklẽ continues the work begun in Voices of the Sixteen, carrying the tradition of Afa divination from its sixteen eldest figures into the two hundred and forty combined signs that branch from them. Every adage here is given first in Ewe, exactly as it is spoken; every story is set down as it was received; every prescription belongs to the practice, not to convenience.Within these pages, each of the forty-five combined figures of Volume One is set out in full: its figure and meaning; its adages, preserved in the original Ewe with their teaching; its stories, vividly retold and interpreted; the questions the diviner must ask; and the Vorsa, the taboos, the health domains, and the deities that belong to it.Where the tradition is silent, this book is silent too. Nothing has been invented to fill a gap - what is written here is what was carried forward, in the same discipline that has always governed this work.Written by Bokor Sakidu (Godsway Salitsi), a practicing Ewe diviner and ordained Sofo based in Accra, Ghana, The Roads of the Duklẽ is a working companion for the Bokono, and a lasting record for anyone seeking to understand this sacred tradition in its own words.