Afa

- [T2→T1] Afa/Ava/Aha (toned differently from afa, "name") = the whole field of oracular, divinatory, predictive and clairvoyant practice — second only to Amuma/Ibu Amuma (prophecy). Hundreds of divination systems exist; the primordial Akpukpala string system is the most sophisticated and enduring.

- [T2→T1, quoting Umeh 1999] Afa has its own language, believed to be not just the oldest Igbo language but the oldest language in the world — "the language of Dibias," modified in the time of Amuta (Uga Chi); its study would reveal much about Igbo origins (Nnabuchi, quoted by Umeh).

- [T1] The Afa mystical "0" — a closely guarded Dibia secret which Umeh calls the "Mother of All Alphabets," claimed to underlie literacy and even "post-literacy" civilization (the computer!); unravelled in Vol. 2 ch.8. Sixteen mystic "seeds," 64 root words, multiplying in sequences ad infinitum (the Itu Aku O'sa game's 64 kernels).

- [T1] Divination apparatus and language glimpsed in Vol. 1: ikwu afa — programming afa strings (with asa-fish bones); tortoise-shell reading and sounding (clearing "Afa virus" blockages); the sand-drawn astral-divination sign in nzu; Uche bu Afa — "Consciousness is (the first) Divination" (Afa expression: Ose Ora, the Universal Mind of God).

- [T1] Consultation forms: Afa Ita — pinpointing a culprit (Onuama Obidialo naming thief, thief's father, and hiding place — "how I did it, the etu behind it, is unknown").

- [T2 — Omenigbo] Polemic: the Western binary computing system (Akwu na Obi threshold encoding) is a shallow extraction from Akpukpala — merely the "Akashic gateway" an adept passes (Ikwu Afa — jumping into Afa-consciousness) before the true work (Igba Afa) opens into higher dimensions; quantum computing similarly cribbed from the Dogon fox-divination. (Polemical claim; note and weigh.)

- [T1] Vol. 2 (not in this scan) covers: calendar & cosmic cycles; the Afa "0"; the three classes of wise consultants (Divination, Prophecy, Prediction); Afa's sixteen seeds & operations; longevity recipes; water; herbs; Egwu Ogwu (ogwu music); the Language of Prayer; humour; evil forces; miracles; Iku Ume Ndu (healing by breath); Dibia ethics.