Ekuele (Opele) Divination Chain, Coconut Shell Coven Practice Larger 2 to 3 inch

Larger 2 to 3 inch pebbles

chesed (loving-kindness) as a foundational virtue in Jewish thought

Wear it through a week that asks for a level head

give it to moving water where permitted

and folk practitioners everywhere have worked to call true dreams

Ekuele (Opele) Divination Chain, Coconut Shell Coven Practice Larger 2 to 3 inchAmong the world's divination instruments, few carry the weight of the ekuele. Also written opele or pl, this is the divining chain of If, the Yoruba tradition's great system of sacred knowledge, here strung in the classic form with eight coconut shell pieces. Cast by the babalawo, the initiated priest of If, the chain falls in patterns of open and closed faces that reveal the Odu, the sacred signs through which the tradition speaks. This is not a