Editing Odinala (section)

====Afa divination====
The name of divination in Igbo derives from ''ígbá áfà'' or ''áhà'' meaning 'to name' coming from the diviner's skill in rooting out problems hence naming them.<ref name="achebe2011">{{cite book |first=Nwando |last=Achebe |title=The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe |publisher=Indiana University Press |pages=54–55 |year=2011 |isbn=978-0253222480}}</ref> The dibia or ''ogba afa'', 'interpreter of afa', is considered a master of esoteric knowledge and wisdom and igba afa is a way in which people can find out the cause of such things as misfortunes. The diviner interprets codes from ''àlà mmuọ'' the unseen by throwing divination seeds, cowries, and beads,<ref name="achebe2011"/><ref name="Iroegbu2010">{{cite book |first=Patrick E. |last=Iroegbu |title=Healing Insanity: A Study of Igbo Medicine in Contemporary Nigeria |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |pages=344–346 |year=2010 |isbn=978-1450096294}}{{self-published source|date=December 2017}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}} or observing a divination board sometimes called ''osho'' which can be used in pronouncing curses on the evil.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jude C. U. |last=Aguwa |title=The Agwu deity in Igbo religion: a study of the patron spirit divination and medicine in an African society |publisher=Fourth Dimension Publishing |page=108 |year=1995 |isbn=9789781563997}}</ref> In this way the diviner is endowed with special sight.<ref>{{cite book |first=Philip M. |last=Peek |title=African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing |publisher=Georgetown University Press |page=200 |year=1991 |isbn= 0253343097}}</ref> it is related the sciences of homeopathic medicine known as ''ọ́gwụ̀'', a practitioner consciously picks to either of these abilities.<ref name="agbadiere"/> 
Animals that are special in divination and sacrifice include a white he-goat, a white ram, a tortoise and male wall gecko. These animals are prized for their rarity, price and therefore the journey taken to obtain. Chameleons and rats are used for more stronger medicines and deadly poisons, and antidotes can include lambs, small chickens, eggs, and oils.<ref name="agbadiere"/> Nzu is used in rites from birth to death and is used to mark sacred buildings and spaces.<ref name="agbadiere"/> Agwu Nsi is the Igbo patron deity of health and divination and is related to insanity, confusion, and unusual human behaviour which is linked to possession of Agwu by the diviner.<ref name="nwaorgu2001"/><ref name="Iroegbu2010"/><ref>{{cite book |first1=Patrick |last1=Iroegbu |first2=Christine E. |last2=Gottschalk-Batschkus |editor-first=Joy C. |editor-last=Green |title=Handbook of ethnotherapies |chapter=Igbo Medicine Practitioners and Ways of Healing Insanity in Southeastern Nigeria |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |page=157 |year=2002 |isbn=3831141843 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyR_dqdZ5SQC&pg=PA157 |access-date=2015-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Damian Ugwutikiri |last=Opata |title=Ajija: an Igbo agent of death and destruction |publisher=Great AP Express |page=28 |year=2009 |isbn=978-9788087748}}</ref> Agwu can be manifested by other alusi so that there could be images of a divination Ikenga or ''Ikenga Agwu'' for instance.<ref name="Iroegbu2010"/>