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Priestess of Ọ̀ṣun · founding elder of Ẹgbẹ́ Tíwalàdé
She was brought to Ifá at five years old, alongside her parents, who are priests in the tradition as well. She is the oldest of their seven children.
Born in New York and raised in Ọ̀yọ́túnjí African Village in Sheldon, South Carolina, she took her childhood formal education at the Yorùbá Royal Academy there. Her three children are all priests in the Ifá-Yorùbá tradition, and she is a grandmother.
She has more than twenty initiated godchildren and at least twenty more on the road to initiation, and remains close to her own spiritual elders.
In 2005 she led the collective that founded Ẹgbẹ́ Tíwalàdé. The house describes itself as one of the largest ẹgbẹ́ in Atlanta, and she has spent it as a champion for the indigent and marginalised in the African community.
Source: the house’s own biography page. egbetiwalade.weebly.com/iyalosa-tinibu-bio.html
Almost every botanica resells. This one publishes. Three books on the Òrìṣà and the odù carry Nia Jones-Morgan’s name, and two of them sit on the shop’s own shelf.
Written for the person who has started asking and has nobody to ask. It sets out how the Òrìṣà are understood to manifest and to bear on a life, without assuming the reader already knows the vocabulary.
On the shelf →Mérìndínlógún and Ifá are the oracular systems the odù come through. These are the stories carried inside them, told so the moral lands on a life being lived now rather than on one lived a long time ago.
On the shelf →One odù, told at length. Listed on the shop’s own shelf.
On the shelf →The books and the biography above come from two different sources, and neither one mentions the other. They are set out here as two facts about this house rather than as one, until the house says otherwise.
Readings, ẹbọ, naming and counsel are arranged by phone. Say what brought you; you will be told what kind of appointment it needs.