Interpreting Obiby Mariela Alban - Oni Yemaya In this book you will find the apprentice, the basic knowledge, but fundamental to start the opening, manipulation and interpretation of the Oracle of Obí Agbón, to establish communication with the ancestors, Egun and the Orishas. Different cultures sought answers through oracles. Answers to your concerns about how to resolve a critical situation, be it health, economic, or conflict or war. There are many people around the world who practiced, and still do today, consulting a certain oracle. In antiquity, the Greeks had the Oracle of Delphi, located next to Mount Parnassus and dedicated to Apollo, and, in Dodona, another, dedicated to Zeus, and at the foot of Mount Tomaros in the Pindus Mountains, near the border with Albania. . The Celts consulted through the runes. In ancient Egypt, the Oracle of Amun. The Chinese still have the I-Ching. Among many other cultures that also had their own oracle. Consulting an oracle is still practiced worldwide by people in search of solutions to their problems. With the help of the ancestors and the Orishas, the Yoruba have done it for centuries in southwestern Africa, in Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and Togo, through the Oracle of Ifá, the Merindinlogún and that of Obi Abata, from which dice is the oldest of the three, and whose divinatory system was brought to the new world, to Cuban soil, by the holders of the ancestral knowledge of its ritual, in their transatlantic journey of slavery since the 16th century. There they had to adapt to the new land, where they had to take the necessary elements to replace those they could not find and be able to continue applying the ancient wisdom. Regarding the oracle of the Obí Abata,

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full of sound and fury, some felt that it signified nothing. Four decades later, the significations are multiple as interpretations of the film's strange imagery and metaphoric potential continue to pile up. Interpreting Star Wars analyses and contextualises the dominant trends in Star Wars interpretation from the earliest reviews, through Lucasfilm's attempts to use its position as copyright holder to promote a single meaning, to the 21st century where the internet has rendered such authorial control impossible and new entries to the canon present new twists on old hopes.

The computational approach of this book is aimed at simulating the human ability to understand various kinds of phrases with a novel metaphoric component. That is, interpretations of metaphor as literal paraphrases are based on literal meanings of the metaphorically used words. This method distinguishes itself from statistical approaches, which in general do not account for novel usages, and from efforts directed at metaphor constrained to one type of phrase or to a single topic domain. The more interesting and novel metaphors appear to be based on concepts generally represented as nouns, since such concepts can be understood from a variety of perspectives. The core of the process of interpreting nominal concepts is to represent them in such a way that readers or hearers can infer which aspect(s) of the nominal concept is likely to be intended to be applied to its interpretation. These aspects are defined in terms of verbal and adjectival predicates. A section on the representation and processing of part-sentence verbal metaphor will therefore also serve as preparation for the representation of salient aspects of metaphorically used nouns. As the ability to process metaphorically used verbs and nouns facilitates the interpretation of more complex tropes, computational analysis of two other kinds of metaphorically based expressions are outlined: metaphoric compound nouns, such as "idea factory" and, together with the representation of inferences, modified metaphoric idioms, such as "Put the cat back into the bag".

This book introduces readers to oracle bone inscriptions (OBI), the oldest known form of Chinese writing. It presents 120 rubbings made from unearthed animal bones and turtle shells that the Shang royal court employed to record royal divinations 3500 years ago, covering topics ranging from ancestor worship, rituals, and astronomy to agriculture, war, and hunting. Each rubbing is accompanied by a graph-to-graph transcription, a translation and a detailed annotation. The book is intended for both general readers and scholars who are interested in ancient civilizations and Early China in particular, acquainting them not only with OBI graphs and the development of the Chinese writing system, but also the history of the Shang Dynasty. The didactic and tutorial format makes this book ideal for teaching and for self-learning. Sumerian, Egyptian, Chinese OBI and Mayan constitute the four pristine writing systems. Of these, only Chinese writing has remained logographic and survived to the present day. The study of OBI not only plays a pivotal role in connecting archaeology to history, but is also of great importance to the comparative study of the origin of writing and civilization. Though there are numerous books on Mayan and Egyptian hieroglyphs, there are very few on OBI; this book fills that gap.

English-Language Book. This book is an in-depth and analytical study of Lukumí Obí Divination. In addition, it is intended to serve as a practical guide for the young olorisha.

• The first book to provide complete, specific instructions for casting the obi oracle of the Santería faith. • Uses the shell of a coconut, which embodies the spirit of Obí, as a divination tool. • Includes a detailed “mojuba” or prayer that awakens the orishas and invites them to speak. • Examines in depth the five basic patterns that appear when obí is cast and explains how to interpret the oracle's answer. • Explores the fifty additional patterns and meanings contributed by ten orishas closely associated with the orisha Obí One of the paths to the spirits within Santeria is through a divination technique known as obi, the coconut oracle, which gives the petitioner access to the orisha of the same name. The orisha Obí began as a mortal human who ascended to become an orisha as a reward for good deeds done on Earth, then fell from grace because of excessive pride. When he descended back to Earth, his spirit was embodied in the coconut palm. Though he no longer has a tongue, he can answer questions posed to him through the patterns made by four pieces of coconut shell cast as a divination tool. Obí: Oracle of Cuban Santería is the first book to fully explore the sacred body of lore surrounding Obí, as well as his particular rituals and customs, including opening considerations, casting and interpreting the oracle, and employing advanced methods of divination. Also explained are the previously unpublished secrets of closing the oracle properly so that any negative vibrations will be absorbed by the coconuts and permanently removed from the diviner's home.

This book has been written in order to bridge the gap in the information currently available on Obi divination. It is virtually impossible to locate a single text that is not only clear, but also complete. The book succeeds in filling a long-standing void within the circle of divination texts and includes information that has been before been published. This book takes the study of the Obi to new heights and open the door into this fascinating and powerful oracle.