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Cooling / Restoration
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Ritual action associated with propitiation, settling and restoration after imbalance.
Place & variation
Yorùbá material and devotional traditions. This public record gives cultural context, not instructions or evidence of medical efficacy.
PUBLIC CONTEXT / RESTRICTED TRADITION
This entry discusses publicly documented context. It does not reproduce initiation material, ritual instructions or knowledge whose circulation is governed by a community.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Material transformation.
Restoration is approached through re-establishing relationships and balance.
This is the archive’s reading of a structure or relationship, not a claim that the tradition was designed as a modern technology.
03 / FUTURE — INHERITED FUTURES SPECULATION
Could a system be designed around recovery rather than permanent punishment?
System recovery rather than punishment.
An artistic proposition to explore. Historical documentation does not establish the technological analogy.
FOLLOW THE RESEARCH
Sources & context.
The linked sources distinguish collection evidence, research and contextual reading. They support the inheritance layer; the system and future layers are editorial interpretations.
- 01Anthony D. Buckley — Yoruba Medicine (1985) ↗Scholarly context / ethnography preview · Opens source
- 02Rowland Abiodun — Yoruba Art and Language (2014) ↗Scholarly context / book · Opens source
Research edition 01 · September 2026. A desk-research synthesis; not a practitioner-certified account. Some linked books and articles require library access. Read the evidence guide ↗
Follow another thread.
Editorial links connect shared themes, objects and practices. They do not make the records interchangeable.