CHARACTERISTICS OF IFA | FASINA FALADE
These characteristics include the following: i) IFA IS SYSTEMATIC In Ifa, there are 256 chapters. In each chapter, there are at least 1,680 stanzas. In all, there are at least 430,080 stanzas in Ifa. This means that there are four hundred and thirty thousand and eighty messages, together with their concomitant ebo, rituals and taboos in Ifa. All these had been compartmentalized into Oju-Odu or Olodu (Major Odu) and Afeka-leka or Amulu-mala (combinations) for easy storage of these vital information and body of knowledge. There are 16 major Odu and 240 combinations. In each Odu, be it major or combination, all the information are divided into different sub-heads, such as longevity, wealth, health, spouse, children, professional choice, success, death, affliction, litigation, loss, trouble and so on. Depending on what the client has come for, there is, at least a message concerning the client in the Odu. Not only this, solutions to problems, en