Àṣẹ — anatomical right hand

Power in effective action

The anatomical-right hand is shown as a practical outlet for Àṣẹ, the capacity for effective action, within the requested head–hands–feet shorthand. It appears on the image left because the corpus convention defines x below 0.5 as anatomical right; this hand point is pedagogical and not a claim that Ifá canon fixes Àṣẹ to a hand tissue.

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

Point 4 of 7 in Yorùbá / Ifá — Orí and Àṣẹ at the Head

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Ifá literary corpus — verses on Orí (primary_canonical)

Primary context for sacred agency; the bilateral hand 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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