Interpreting Obi: A practical vision of the ritual process of the oracle of Obi Agbon

Different cultures sought answers through oracles. Answers to your concerns about how to resolve a critical situation, be it health, economic, or conflict or war. There are many people around the world who practiced, and still do today, consulting a certain oracle. In antiquity, the Greeks had the Oracle of Delphi, located next to Mount Parnassus and dedicated to Apollo, and, in Dodona, another, dedicated to Zeus, and at the foot of Mount Tomaros in the Pindus Mountains, near the border with Albania. . The Celts consulted through the runes. In ancient Egypt, the Oracle of Amun. The Chinese still have the I-Ching. Among many other cultures that also had their own oracle.

Consulting an oracle is still practiced worldwide by people in search of solutions to their problems. With the help of the ancestors and the Orishas, the Yoruba have done it for centuries in southwestern Africa, in Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and Togo, through the Oracle of Ifá, the Merindinlogún and that of Obi Abata, from which dice is the oldest of the three, and whose divinatory system was brought to the new world, to Cuban soil, by the holders of the ancestral knowledge of its ritual, in their transatlantic journey of slavery since the 16th century. There they had to adapt to the new land, where they had to take the necessary elements to replace those they could not find and be able to continue applying the ancient wisdom. Regarding the oracle of the Obí Abata,