Àṣẹ — anatomical right foot

Power at ground contact

The anatomical-right foot extends the requested Àṣẹ shorthand to the groundward end of the body, where embodied action meets support and movement. It is shown on the image left according to the coordinate convention; the point is an editorial teaching aid and not a claim that a canonical verse specifies a foot locus for Àṣẹ.

Orí inúOrí òde / Orí apádiÀṣẹ — headÀṣẹ — anatomical right handÀṣẹ — anatomical left handÀṣẹ — anatomical right footÀṣẹ — anatomical right footÀṣẹ — anatomical left foot

Point 6 of 7 in Yorùbá / Ifá — Orí and Àṣẹ at the Head

Cross-tradition overlaps

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Sources

Ifá literary corpus — verses on Orí (primary_canonical)

Primary context for sacred agency; the bilateral foot placement is a modern visual simplification.

Wande Abimbola, Ifá Will Mend Our Broken World: Thoughts on Yorùbá Culture in West Africa and the Diaspora (scholarly_modern)

Modern Ifá-informed discussion of ritual efficacy and enacted religious power.

E. Bolaji Idowu, Olódùmarè: God in Yoruba Belief (scholarly_modern)

Theological context for effective sacred power; it does not establish this coordinate.

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