Ikin 3 Eyes Palm Oil Seed, 1 lb zoisite and reversal work

and reversal work

A six-inch lapis obelisk is those two reverences in one carving: the sun's form cut from the sky's stone

Form: perched raven looking downward

especially after green plant material

or black tourmaline) by the bedside as the warding's nighttime placeholder

Ikin 3 Eyes Palm Oil Seed, 1 lb zoisite and reversal workThe sacred nuts of If, by the pound. The Ikin 3 Eyes Palm Oil Seed supplies the oil palm nuts central to If, the divination tradition of the Yoruba religion and its diaspora lineages: nuts bearing three or more eyes, the kind the tradition holds proper for the babalawo's work of marking the Odu, offered here as a traditional material with the respect the tradition is owed. These are not curios; in If they are among the most sacred objects there are,