The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Divination: How to Cast the Diloggun, the Oracle of the Orishas

Ocha'ni Lele is an initiated priest within Lucumi, the Afro-Cuban Santeria tradition, and this book, published by Destiny Books, is written from inside the tradition to teach the practice of casting and reading the diloggun, the cowrie shell divination system of the orishas. Its strength is authenticity of practice, it comes from someone trained and initiated to perform the divination it describes, rather than from an outside academic observer. Its limit is that it represents one practitioner's lineage and teaching within a tradition that varies across different houses and lineages, so it should be read as one authoritative practitioner's account of how diloggun is cast and read, not as the single official version of a tradition that does not have one central authority to issue such a version.