Akọsẹjaye

Proper noun

 * 1)  An important Yoruba religious process and ceremony performed for a newborn child.
 * 2) * It consists of three parts, a ceremony to aid a couple who is struggling to have children, then a ceremony performed while a woman is pregnant to determine if a child is a reincarnated ancestor, and to determine if the child may be an . Finally, the main part of the ceremony is performed for a child within the first week of their birth. It consists of the consulting of by a babalawo to determine a child's destiny, future, and also to determine if the child has certain taboos . This is said to be done by measuring a child's  and , how glorious and bright a child's destiny is.