Rituals and ceremonies to celebrate the coming of the infant is not done until a few days after the baby is born and it is known that the child is healthy and will live on. A special ceremony called The First Step into the World is performed by the Yoruba people, three days after birth is giving to a child. This ceremony is assisted by a babalawo, a priest of Ifa, to determine what kind of person the child will be and to appoint an orisha (divinity) or guardian spirits. The babalawo determines who will be the child’s protector, or orisha, as well as what the child is forbidden to, after the child’s father has acknowledged
Rituals and ceremonies to celebrate the coming of the infant is not done until a few days after the baby is born and it is known that the child is healthy and will live on. A special ceremony called The First Step into the World is performed by the Yoruba people, three days after birth is giving to a child. This ceremony is assisted by a babalawo, a priest of Ifa, to determine what kind of person the child will be and to appoint an orisha (divinity) or guardian spirits. The babalawo determines who will be the child’s protector, or orisha, as well as what the child is forbidden to, after the child’s father has acknowledged