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    The Yoruba Domino Oracle
    The Yoruba Domino Oracle
    The Yoruba Domino Oracle
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    The Yoruba Domino Oracle

    By Carlos G. y Poenna

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    This easy-to-follow guide reveals the simple yet powerful Yoruba tradition of using dominoes for divination.

    While the game of Dominoes is beloved across the globe, the Yoruba tradition of Africa reveals how the ubiquitous tiles can also be used for divination. Best known in Santeria, the domino oracle is universal and may be consulted by anyone.

    In The Yoruba Domino Oracle, Carlos G. y Poenna explains how to perform domino readings and interpret each tile as well as their combinations. For each reading, y Poenna gives instructions for offerings or prayers to reader’s chosen spirits, whether they be Yoruba deities or Catholic saints.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 1, 2000
    ISBN9781609255732
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      Book preview

      The Yoruba Domino Oracle - Carlos G. y Poenna

      Front CoverHalf Title InfoBook Title Info

      First published in 2000 by

      Samuel Weiser, Inc.

      P. O. Box 612

      York Beach, ME 03910-0612

      www.weiserbooks.com

      Copyright © 2000 Carlos G. y Poenna

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Samuel Weiser, Inc. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Poenna, Carlos G. y.

         The Yoruba domino oracle / Carlos G. y Poenna.

            p. cm.

         Includes index

         ISBN 1-57863-149-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)

         1. Oracles. 2. Dominoes—Miscellanea. 3. Afro-Caribbean cults—Miscellanea. 4. Yoruba (African people)—Religion—Miscellanea. I. Title.

      BF1779. D65 P64 2000

      299’. 68333—dc21

      99-058153

      VG

      Typeset in 11/15 Minion

      Cover design and photo by Phillip Augusta

      Printed in the United States of America

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      The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39. 48-1992 (R1997).

      For my friend,

      Gabrielle,

      And in memory of her husband Edward

      and her grandmother Odessa.

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      1. How to Read the Dominos

      2. What Each Domino Means

      3. Prayers as Remedies

      4. Making a Novena

      GLOSSARY OF UNFAMILIAR WORDS

      INDEX

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Introduction

      The Domino Oracle is an explicit divination system that has been used for many years in the Yoruba tradition. The dominos know their own limitations, and while they can be read on a monthly basis, they are only helpful for people who are leading stable lifestyles. In other words, they are not usually read when someone is in a huge crisis. The dominos often refer the querent to additional divinations using the coconuts, the Oracle of Ifa, or the cowrie shells, when the aid and wisdom of a priest is required. If someone using this book has no priest, or is unable to study the Yoruba tradition with a teacher, one can consult with an astrologer or a tarot reader, or one can pray to the saints. Further instruction will be given in this regard.

      Domino divination has its roots in the various earth-based systems of divination that were once known as the practice of geomancy. It is possible that dominos themselves were originally created as a means of geomantic divination. Domino divination traces its origin to the Yoruba oracle of Ifa, and to the divination systems of the Yoruba and Fon peoples of Africa. While it is entirely African in its origin, in its present form it uses British and American dominos, numbered up to the Double Six. More information on the origin of these various geomantic divination systems may be obtained from Games of the Gods by Nigel Pennick (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1989).

      The African domino system of divination was originally brought to the Caribbean and South America by African priest practitioners of the various African animist religions. When these African tribal priests, now slaves in the new world, found the European game of dominos in use here, they transferred their native systems of divination to the playing pieces of the domino game with great sophistication. From this humble origin, and with very few changes over the last two hundred years, the domino oracle has been expanded so that it may be used as a more general system of divination suitable for use by anyone who sincerely wishes to read for others.

      The domino oracle is an excellent method to teach the process of divination to a beginner. Domino divination is especially useful in all religious practices that use the deity structure of the Ibo, Fon, or Yoruba peoples of Africa. The patterns of spots on the playing pieces of the dominos resemble, at least to some extent, the marks made on the divining board by the Father of the Oracle as he reads the oracle revealed by the kola nuts. The oracle of the dominos ultimately originates from the same lofty place as the greater Oracle of Ifa. The dominos may be considered to be the smallest of the oracles, but like the smallest of the Orisha, Eshu, the domino oracle is not to be ignored.

      The dominos have great value as a system of divination because they are very accurate in the hands of a sincere reader. It is a system of divination that may be learned by anyone from any religious tradition. Any sincere person who approaches the domino divination with the correct attitude, sincere intentions, and purity of heart, may assist another person through the use of the domino reading. Learning to work with the domino oracle is an excellent way to develop intuition.

      Another reason why learning to read the domino oracle is so important is that it allows people who may otherwise not have any natural talent or opportunity to learn to read for others to enter into the art and practice of reading. It helps people learn to help others without fear that they may advise people incorrectly. This work expands the circle, so more people are able to receive the advice and guidance of the Orisha. Domino reading works to the benefit of the individual, and to the whole world.

      While those of other religions may use The Domino Oracle, they may only use it in its basic form. Because this system is based on a Yoruba African tradition, more sophisticated readings will require the assistance of priests from that tradition. These priests, often known as Santeros, will usually recommend working with a guide or more senior priests known as Pardons, or Pi de Santos. These senior priests are the heads of families of priests in this tradition as it is practiced in the Western Hemisphere.

      The priest who is consulted might also recommend other readings by a Priest of the Oracle of Ifa, known as a Babalawo. In the Yoruba religion, he is the final authority on divination.

      —Carlos G. y Poenna

      CHAPTER 1

      How to Read the Dominos

      The procedure for reading the domino oracle is simplicity itself. There are only a few considerations that must be learned. The basic readings may be read to the querent directly from this text until you have memorized them. This is why the dominos are such a valuable system to use to teach the art of divination.

      The Four Rules of Domino Reading

      A male reader

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