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Stories encoded in Ejiogbe the first of the 256 chapters of the Ifa divination oral literature credited the origin of
patterned dyeing in various hues to Orunmila, the Yoruba deity of wisdom and divination and the Ifa exponent, who
was divinely inspired to produce patterned dyed cloths using the material technology of certain birds, Agbe, Aluko,
Odidere, Akuko, Lekeleke and Agbufon.
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address.. these six birds were at the period of their creation at the primordial time, divinely inspired and
permitted to respectively use indigo, camwood, palm oil, chalk and variegated colour pigments. The verse of Ejiogbe, in a
dialogic perspectivization, is self explanatory on this. Subscribe

Ifa says it is primal and inimitable

1 I say it becomes imitable

It was inquired, which of the birds wishes to distinctively portray Gods Creative Will

They said it is Agbe, lamprotonis chalybaus, the Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling

It was then decreed that Agbe be directed to dip its plumage in (indigo) dye.


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Greater Blue eared Glossy


Starling

5 Ifa says it is primal and inimitable

I say it becomes imitable

It was inquired, which of the birds wishes to distinctively portray Gods Creation Will

They said it is Aluko, merops nubicus, the Carmine Bee-eater Aluko was directed to put its own plumage in the camwood
paste.

Carmine Bee Eater

10 Ifa says it is primal and inimitable I say it becomes imitable

It was inquired, which of the birds wishes to distinctively portray Gods Creation Will

They said it is Odidere, psittacus erithacus, the African Grey Parrot They said Odidere should put its tail feathers in the
(crimson-coloured) palm oil.

African Grey Parrot


15 Ifa says it is primal and inimitable I say it becomes imitable
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It was inquired, which of the birds wishes to distinctively portray Gods Creation Will

They said it is Lekeleke, ardeola ibis, the Cow Egret

Lekeleke was asked to dip its own plumage in the immaculate and powdery white chalk.

Cow Egret

20 Ifa says it is primal and inimitable I say it becomes imitable

It was inquired, which of the birds wishes to distinctively portray Gods Creation Will

They said it is Akuko Oyongoloto, the big and majestically gaited Cock Akuko Oyongoloto was granted the privilege of
donning the glittering red crown.

Cockerel

25 Ifa says it is primal and inimitable I say it becomes imitable

It was inquired, which of the birds wishes to distinctively portray Gods Creation Will

They said it is the big Agbufon, balearica pavonina, the big Black Crowned Crane Agbufon Oyongoloto was permitted to
wear fluffy variegated crown.

Black Crowned Crane


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30 It was thereafter forbidden of any other [bird(s)] to authoritatively boom and appear distinctively,

Only Opeere, microscelis amaurotis, the Brown-eared Bulbul, chirped and attempted uniqueness

And it was ordered that its tail be clipped very short

Brown Eared Bulbul

These were the priests that divine for Orunmila

When Ifa (Orunmila) was profusely weeping in desperate need of earnings

35 He was advised to offer sacrifice

He offered the prescribed sacrifice

And so whenever Okan, combretm erythrophyllum, the River Bushwillow emerges (sprouts) it comes in ornate patterns.

Red Flower Bush willow on tree,


(Combretum erythrophyllum
(Burchell) Sonder).

Both good (novel) and uniqueness shall seek me profusely 40

Margaret Olugbemisola Areo (Ph.D)* and Razaq Olatunde Rom Kalilu (Ph.D) quoted above in both Yoruba and English
versions in their Origin of and Visual Semiotics in Yoruba Textile of Adire paper where it was explained:

the origin of Adire tradition, according to Wolff and Stanfield (1971: 9), must be sought in the context of indigo dyeing and
the world of the Yoruba women who first created this special cloth over a century ago on Kijipa, the handspun handwoven
cloth of the womens upright loom.

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