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The Senior Sign, Under Two Names

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The Senior Sign, Under Two Names

Eyeunle is cast when eight of the sixteen Diloggun cowries land mouth up, the even midpoint of the full throw. It is recorded under two names in the literature: Eyeunle, the term generally preferred in Cuban Lucumi manuals, and Eji Ogbe, the name it shares with the corresponding parent figure in Ifa divination, where that same sign is widely regarded as the most senior in the entire corpus. The two traditions do not rank their sixteen basic signs by the same method, Diloggun by shell count and Ifa by the sequence generated on its divining chain, so Eyeunle's standing within Diloggun specifically is not simply inherited from Ifa's ranking of Eji Ogbe; it is attested independently within Lucumi practice, where diviners across multiple published accounts describe it with unusual gravity relative to its neighbors in the sequence. That dual naming, and the caution around ranking one tradition's sign by the other tradition's convention, is itself the kind of structural nuance a reference page can responsibly record. What Eyeunle specifically prescribes.

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