Ilé-Orí
House of the Head
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Shrine designed to house/cultivate a relationship with the inner spiritual identity.
Place & variation
Yorùbá material and devotional traditions. This public record gives cultural context, not instructions or evidence of medical efficacy.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Identity & continuity.
A housing creates a dedicated place for attention to personhood.
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
What space might a future home reserve for inward life?
A physical server for an immaterial identity.
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.
- 01The Met — Shrine: House of the Head (Ile-Ori) ↗Museum collection / material evidence · 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.