Oru are drum rhythms (toque) that honor IFA Spirits

Each Oru has 24 toques [compare the 24-cell and the 28 Torah Cantillation Signs]. The connections between rhythms and IFA show how music, mathematics, and nature are interrelated. For example, in Africa, rhymes are used to teach children about numbers and arithmetic. African music and rhythms have spread to other parts of the world, such as India, where scales (ragas) and rhythmical sequences (talas) have profound meaning. Here is part of a toque for Ogun.

Drum rhythms also have been used in Africa as a basic language for human communication. The book "The Information" by James Gleick talks about African drum languages, which enabled Africans to communicate over hundreds of miles by relaying drum messages from village to neighboring village, and he says:

"... the drum language ... of Africa ... was a language of a single pair of phonemes...

All that mattered was for the drums to sound two distinct notes, at an interval of about a major third...

the drum language ... allocate[d] extra bits for disambiguation and error correction...

For the african drummers, messages need to be about eight times as long as their spoken equivalents....

[ After World War II when electronic communication became widely used in Africa ]... 

the drums ... began to fade from the African scene...".

This shows that the basic African culture (from which my Cl(8) Clifford algebra is derived) had an binary error-correcting code with 8-bit words which reminds me of the binary Golay code [24,12,8] of length 24, dimension 12 and minimal distance 8 in which an octad is a codeword of distance 8 from the origin.

The octads are a Steiner system S(5,8,24) which is a set with 24 points and a collection of distinct octads (8-subsets) such that any 5-subset is contained in exactly one 8-subset.

The classical Golay code [24,12,8] leads to a quantum code [[24,0,8]] that maps a quantum state space of 24 qubits into 24 qubits, correcting [(8-1)/2] = [3.5] = greatest integer in 3.5 = 3 errors, and detecting 8/2 = 4 errors.

So, Gleick's book pointed out to me that Ancient African drum language is basically applied quantum information theory, just as Ancient African divination is basically the Clifford algebra of E8 physics.