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Ekuele (Opele) Divination Chain, Coconut Shell Kuan Yin and folk practice adds theAmong 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