Odù Mnemonic

Every byte is one of the 256 Odù Ifá. Two legs, four lines each, one mark or two — eight bits exactly.

Demo, not a wallet tool. The trailing checksum figure catches typos and transpositions; it is not encryption, and a phrase reveals its bytes to anyone holding it. Each figure carries 8 bits where a BIP-39 word carries 11. For wallet seeds use BIP-39. Everything here runs locally — nothing is sent anywhere.

Encode

Input Value

Decode

Phrase — slugs, names, or numbered

Data generated from data/principal_odu.json, spec . Conventions: single mark = 1, top line most significant, right leg is the high nibble.

Verified against Bascom (1969), Ifa Divination, Table 1 p. 4 and Table 3 col. B p. 48. Archived at doi:10.5281/zenodo.21743991 — please cite Bascom alongside it, as this dataset is a transcription rather than a discovery.