Wow! Ifa is more Civilized than anything known to Man, see one of its verses (Ogbe Rikusa) !

Check out top 72 Odus a devotee needs to be initiated to Ifa.

It’s after this initiation he or she can be called Baba’Alawo or Iyalawo (meaning ‘mother of divination) or Iyanifa

After some years of intensive training and confronting the political and economic challenges that come with the struggle to learn and grow in any religious community, we decided to make a journey in Nigeria far beyond the well-known towns of Ile-Ife and Oyo to find a new teacher in Ifa studies.  We reasoned that if we ventured to a place less influenced by globalization, we might find a Babalawo who would be more interested in our spiritual growth, than our economic and political resources.  So we decided to journey to the town which esteemed Nigerian novelist, D.O. Fagunwa called Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale, which Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka translated as The Forest of a Thousand Demons.  This was the first novel ever written in Yoruba language, set in the hills of Oke Igbo, a remote town outside of Ondo, Nigeria, where some mysteries may remain in spite of modernity.  Without knowledge of the location or of a single living soul in Oke Igbo, we ventured to Oke Igbo to continue our training.

Before our journey, we decided to consult a Babalawo as soon as we arrived in Oke Igbo, to ask the Ancestors and Orisa for guidance during an unknown journey in search of an upright teacher in a place we were total strangers.  Looking back, we are very thankful we chose to consult Ifa, because the advice and guidance we were given, made all the difference in our subsequent quest.  Here is the Ifa Verse from Ogbe Rikusa (Ogbe Osa), we were told by the Araba of Oke Igbo who we met almost immediately upon our arrival in Oke Igbo.  The story goes like this:
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