Es parte de un libro en inglés llamado “Yoruba Heathenism” escrito en 1899 por un Yoruba llamado James Johnson ,demuestra que en ese tiempo en Yorubaland, cuando una mujer recibía Ifa, recibía solamente UN SOLO ikin consagrado, y que cuando este necesitaba hablar, se incluia en los ikines de su esposo, hermano, o cualquier babalawo:
“The male sex is the sex which particularly gives itself to Ifa worhsip. There are, however, times when divinations may recommend and prescribe that worship to a woman. Whenever this should be the case, a woman would receive from a Babalawo <<ONLY ONE IKIN>> or consecrated palm nut called Eko, which she would carry about her body for protection, and whenever divination should recommend and prescribe to her sacrifice to Ifa, she would, for the time being, hand over her Eko either to her husband or to her brother, or any other male relative according to prescription, who would include it in his own Ikins for the purpose of the worship and sacrifice in which she would participate”
