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ENCYCLOPEDIC TREATISE OF IFA

OGBE OGUNDA. OGBE YONO
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NETWORK
OGBE YONO OBOSORBO OBOKONO ADIFAFUN SHONA.
SUYERE
ATIPONLA IFA BORU, ATIPONLA IFA BORU. IFA OWE, IFA OMA, IFA IRE. ATIPONLA IFA BORU.
IN THIS ODDUN IT IS BORN

THE IÑAFA OR IFA CLUB NECKLACE. THE MEAT MARKET HOOKS. THE MULETAS. THE PASTE OF
THE TEETH. WHERE THE EGUNGUN OF EGGUN IS PLACED ON ELEGBA. THE ALTERATIONS OF
PANCREAS. THE CHARGE OF THE EKOBIO ENYOBI ABAKUA SQUARE. THE SECRET OF THE BUILDER OF THE
HEADS (AJALA). WHERE THE DEAD WERE NOT BURIED. LET THE HEAD BE TOUCHED WITH IT
OKPELE AND THE IKINES TO GUESS THE PERSON. THE UNIFICATION OF THE WORLD, AS WELL AS THE UNION
OF HUMAN BEINGS. THE EBBO SHIRE. HERE THEY DID IFA FOR BABALU AYE AND HE WAS CALLED OLUWO
POPO. HERE OSHUN FIRST SETTLED. OGGUN SHIRO SHERO. THE WATER RESERVOIR (THE
PRESA).
DESCRIPTION OF THE ODDUN

FOR THIS ODDUN ONE MUST NOT LIE NOR BE NEGLIGENT. TOUCH THE BELLY AND BLOW. SPEAK OF THE
UNIFICATION OF THE FAMILY. DO NOT RAISE YOUR HAND TO ANYONE. THE GREAT GARDEN, LIVE AND ENJOY OF
ALL THE ASSETS OF THE STATE. THE GREAT MISAPPROPRIATOR OF THE PUBLIC TREASURY. THE EVIL LIES IN THE

MOUTH AND IT AFFECTS THE STOMACH. EMBOLISMS, VIRUSES, COLITIS, OPERATIONS, PRESSURE, THE HEART,
THE LEGS. DO NOT GET WET WITH RAINWATER. PROBLEMS TO CONCEIVE. STRAIGHT PATH TO
RESOLVE THE PURPOSES. DO NOT SIT DOWN TO EAT AT THE TABLE. THE FIRST THREE AWOSES OF
OLUWO POPO WERE: ADISATE, ABEYENI KOLAYASHETILU. HERE OLUWO POPO WAS KNOWN FOR
THREE NAMES: LANLE THE WARRIOR, ADELTEU THE SOOTHSAYER, YOLUWAYE THE WITCH; WHO WAS THE ONE
SHE HAD SMALLPOX THAT WAS OLOLE. IN THIS IFA AZOWANO MADE THE ENTRY INTO THE LAND OF DAHOMEY-
ARARA. WHEN AZOWANO LEFT TO TRAVEL THE WORLD, RIDING ON AN OWUNKO, LIKE HIM
THE WAY WAS LONG, IT WAS CHANGING FROM OWUNKO AND WHEN THESE ENDED, HE HAD TO
GETTING ON A AGBANI (DEER). WHEN AZOWANO TRAVELED IN THE OWUNKO UPON ENTERING IT IN THE
LAND DAHOMEY-ARARA; YES YES MASHE YES, YES TAKUARA MAYAKUA KERE YES YES. IT IS PLACED
MARABU TO CATCH THE WINDS AND IT SINGS: “SEDOME MADE KAE KEDENEMO MADE KAE SHEWERE
WATCH OUT FOR THE PIECES OF THE MOUTH AS THEY MAKE YOU SICK
STOMACH. MUST RECEIVE BROTH. HERE SPEAKS OSHUN OLUERI WHO LIVES IN THE EYES OF WATER OF
THE CAVES AND THE CUSTODY OGBIGBE (THE CROW). THE THREE SONS OF OGBE YONO ARE: ELERIN,
OLEKEYOMPETU. SPEAK AINA THE CANDLE. THE EARTH IS THE VENGEANCE OF YOUR EVIL. THE EARTH IS THE
JARGON OF LIVING BEINGS AND GRASSES ARE THE DEBRIS OF OUR CURSES. FOR
THIS IFA MUST BE DOING EBBO, BECAUSE THE EARTH IS THE ENEMY OF HUMANS AND OTHERS
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LIVING BEINGS. OLOFIN MADE A SACRIFICE TO OGGUN WITH HERBS AND GAVE FOOD TO HIS LERI IN ONE
LOMA, TO REMOVE A DISGRACE THAT THIS HAD CAUSED BY THE EARTH. FOR IRE OWO, IT
GIVE OÑI TO ORUNMILA TO ASK FOR PEACE, PATIENCE, AND HUMILITY. THIS IFA SPEAKS OF
ALTERATIONS OF THE PANCREAS. THE PERSON TO AVOID THE DISEASE MUST GRIND BONES
FROM RABBIT WITH EFÚN, MAKE IT INTO BALLS TO STORE THEM. THEN DISSOLVE IT IN WATER TO
EBBO MISI AND IT IS ALSO USED FOR BLOWING IN THE HOUSE. WHEN THE AWO SEES THIS IFA, THAT DAY NOT
REGISTER NO ONE IN THE HOUSE, AND ALSO DOES NOT SIT AT THE TABLE TO EAT. HERE WHEN ORUNMILA
SHE WENT TO MARRY OKUKUSHE AND MADE EBBO WITH: FOUR WHITE EYES, TO GET RID OF HER
ALL THE PERDICIONES. FOR THIS ODDUN WE HAVE TO WELCOME BROMUNY BROSIA TO RAISE THE
HEALTH OR SO THAT ONE DOES NOT FALL ILL IN A LEG OR START TO LOSE VISION IN ONE EYE. THERE IS
TO SACRIFICE SOMEONE FOR ONE'S OWN BENEFIT. HERE THEY DID IFA FOR BABALU AYE AND SINCE
THEN HE IS CALLED OLUWO POPO BUT HE GAVE HIS CROWN TO SHANGO. THE IÑAFA WAS BORN, WHICH
IT IS THE COLLAR OF MAZO THAT THE AWOS WEAR TO ATEFAR, SO THAT THEY DO NOT GET SICK NOR THE BAD
OF YOUR ENEMIES REACH YOU. MAFEREFUN OGGUN, HERE WAS THE BIRTH OF OGGUN SHORO
SHORO. THE HOOKS OF THE MEAT SHOPS WERE BORN. HERE SPEAKS AJALA, THE BUILDER OF
HEADS, WHICH RECEIVE OFFERINGS IN THE SACRIFICES. THIS IS THE ORIGIN OF THE SUYERE FOR
SEASONING THE LIRY OF FOUR-LEGGED ANIMALS. SUGGEST:
YOUR MALE YOUR MALE AJALA YOUR MALE (FOR THE SALT).
2) EPO MALERO EPO MALERO AJALA EPO MALERO (FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF COROJO).

3) ORI NALERO ORI MALERO AJALA ORI MALERO (FOR THE COCOA BUTTER).
4) MALE TREE MALE TREE AJALA MALE TREE (FOR THE CASCARILLA).
THIS ODDUN MARKS SEXUAL WEAKNESS, AND OVER TIME THE PERSON WILL END UP IN BAD SHAPE. IT IS HALF
SICK FROM HIS PARTS. DO EBBO SO THAT HE IS POWERFUL AND CAN PERFORM ODARA AND
BE FREE FROM EMBARRASSMENT WITH YOUR WOMAN. BE CAREFUL NOT TO DIE ON TOP OF A WOMAN. FOR
THIS IFA IS GIVEN TO CAIMAN TO OLOKUN AND AZOWANO. LEAVES OF THE YEAR: OKIKAN (JOBO). OGBE
YONO IS AN IFA OF GREED, STOMACH DISEASES, EMBOLISMS. MORTALITY FROM EPIDEMICS.
WITH WOMEN, ONE MUST TAKE THEIR TIME. FOR THIS ODDUN, ONE MUST CLEAN THEIR NAVEL
WITH A DILOGUN OF OSHUN LAYING ON THE SAND OF EKO, TO SCARE AWAY SICKNESS: ARUN UNLO.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE A TRIP, DO IT BY TAKING A DOLL. TO AVOID SEPARATION FROM THE FAMILY, YOU
GIVE A WHITE CHICKEN TO SHANGO AND OGGUN. A DOLL SHOULD BE KEPT IN THE HOUSE AS INSHE.
OZAIN. THE SECRET OF THIS IFA IS TO PRAY THE LERI WITH: VEGETABLE SEX, BREADFRUIT, AND EYELE
THIS IS WHITE. WHEN A PRIEST SEES THIS ODDUN IN A PERSON, THEY HAVE HAD A TRAGEDY AND HAVE
I GIVE TO THE HANDS AND HAVE USED A KNIFE AND HE IS IN JAIL OR THEY ARE GOING TO ARREST HIM. LET HIM DO EBBO.

SO THAT IT GOES WELL. THIS ODDUN FOR OBINI: SHE HAS A DISEASE THAT DOES NOT LET HER GIVE BIRTH AND
SHE WANTS TO HAVE MORE CHILDREN. IN THIS ODDUN THERE IS LUCK AND ABUNDANCE AND ONE MUST KNOW.

MANAGE A SITUATION, SO AS NOT TO FALL INTO TRAGEDY AND TRY TO GET LUCK. FOR THIS
ODDUN OF IFA THE FEET ARE CURSED BY OLOFIN. THAT IS WHY WHEN THE FEET ARE BEGGED, THEY
HE ORDERS THE PERSON TO HOLD ONTO THE CHAIR WITH THE BIG TOES.
THIS SIGN, WHEN PRAYED IN THE EBBO SAYS: IKU SOWERE, ARU SHEWERE, (CONTINUE) AND IT GOES
CLEANING THE LERI OF THE PERSON. THE EGGUN OF THIS IFA IS CALLED EKUN LEMPE. THIS IFA INDICATES
THREE OPERATIONS AND DIFFICULTY IN AN EYE. OGBE YONO IS VERY JEALOUS AND THAT IS HIS MISFORTUNE.
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Pay Yemaya and be careful with Oshun. This is where Oshun settled for the first time.
OGBE YONO MUST ATTEND TO HIS HOUSE, NOT WEAR BLACK CLOTHES, NOT WALK HURRIEDLY, THAT THIS
IT IS HIS OZAIN. THROUGH THIS ODDUN FIRST ELEGBA IS RECEIVED AND THEN THE
WARRIORS. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES CANNOT BE CONSUMED. IT IS AN ITA OF AZOWANO. THIS ODDUN IS
PLACE ON THE BOARD NEXT TO THE ODDUN THAT CAME OUT. IT IS ORDERED TO RESPECT THE CAIMAN AND NOT TO BE

GANDIO, BECAUSE YONO MEANS TO OPEN INCOMMENSURABLY THE MOUTH, SOMETHING THAT HE DOES
CAIMAN AND THE CROCODILE, WHICH IS A SIGN OF GLUTTONY AND GREED. THROUGH THIS ODDUN IT HAS
WHAT TO DO THINGS OR WORK QUIETLY, WITHOUT BOASTING ABOUT WHAT ONE DOES,
BECAUSE HE ALWAYS DOES IT WELL. OTHERS MAY SAY THAT HE IS A LAZY PERSON, A CRAZY PERSON, BUT REALLY

HE IS WISE AND MORE COMPETENT THAN OTHERS, BUT IT MUST BE DONE QUIETLY, FOR
TO THE ENEMIES DO NOT INTERFERE. OGBE YONO TO CONQUER OR REIGN, HAS TO ORUGBO WITH
TIGER SKIN. HERE OLUWO POPO MADE HIS ENTRANCE INTO THE ARARA LAND, DRESSED IN THE SKIN OF
TIGER AND SHANGO HAD TO FORGIVE HIM. IFA OF BETRAYAL, OF REPERCUSSION. MAFEREFUN SHANGO,
YEMAYA, OLOKUN, OLUWO POPO AND OSHUN. OGBE YONO SHOULD NOT INTERFERE WHERE HE IS NOT CALLED. IN
THIS ODDUN IS ADORDED TO SHAKUANA, THE SPIRIT THAT WORKS IS EKULEMPE. THE EWES OF THIS
SIGN OF SOUND: JOB, ELEBOYUYE, SIGUARAYA, MORURO, PIÑON AND PRODIGIOUS. THE ANIMALS ARE: THE
CAIMAN, THE SHEEP AND THE PIRANHA. IN THIS ODDUN IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT THE OZAIN POTS IN A
IFA MUST BE NEW AS THEY REPRESENT THE HEAD OF THE GODFATHER AND THE GODCHILD. THE SAUCEPAN THAT
IT IS GRANTED TO THE GODSON, IT IS THE ONE OF THE BASKET THAT THIS ONE WILL GATHER TO WORK UNTIL
CHOKE KUAKUANARDO, FOR THIS IS THE ONE THAT BREAKS IN THE KUTUN.
REZOS AND SUYERES
NETWORK:
IGBE YONO AYE ADE MOWAYE EREÑI LAYE ADIFAFUN ODUDUWA WANEMI OFA OWAYE ODUDUWA IKU
SEGUERE, ARUN SEGUERE, OFE SEGUERE, EYE SEGUERE, OGU SEGUERE, EYU ARAYE SEGUERE ELEMU
To follow.
NETWORK:
ADD NEW WORD NEW LEAF NEW JOY IN THE LIFE OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN, GOOD FORTUNE, GOOD

OWO, IRE ASHEGUN OTA.

NETWORK:
THE CHILD IS NOT A PEST TO SOW A SEED IN HIS PARENT'S HARVEST.
NETWORK:
THE TRUTH OF THE EYE, THE STRONG ONE THAT CREATES THE KNOWLEDGE OF ORUNMILA.

NETWORK:
OGBE YONO IFA OLANLA OBA BINI OBALOLO.
REPORT: THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISASTERS THIS YEAR HAVE INCREASED IN SEVERITY AND FREQUENCY.

NETWORK
OGBE YONO PANRERE OFONAMI FONAKITI ADIFAFUN SIEGUIADO EBUESAN KARASHETE.
SAYING
I came here to tell you that I believe in what you are doing.
SUYERE: YAE YAE MASHE YAE YAE PAE TAKUARA MAYAKUA KERE YAE YAE.
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SUYERE: GOOD MORNING IKU, IKU MORNING, ARUN MORNING, OFO MORNING.

SAYING: SHEBERE COVERS THE LEOPARD'S BACK, SHEBERE COVERS THE LEOPARD'S BACK.
WORKS OF ODDUN OGBE YONO
FOR IMPOTENCE
MAMU TIZANA OF RED MANGROVE, MASTUERZO AND COBALT MEDULLA LIKE COMMON WATER.
INSHE OZAIN
IYE OF THE RITUALS OF THE MYSTIC, BIRD, LAND OF DIFFERENT COLORS, TIGER OR LEOPARD SKIN, ALL
IGI, OBI MOTIWAO, OBI EDUN, OROGBO, ERU, AIRA, EKU, EPO, AWADO.
FOR THE STOMACH
MAMU COOKING OF EWE YINI (CUNDIAMOR) WITH WATER FROM THE SOUP POT OF OSHUN AND ENI.
WORK TO GO IRE UMBO
AN OWUNKO IS GIVEN TO ELEGBA AND HIS MEATS ARE DISTRIBUTED IN THE WOODS. WITH THE SKIN, A IS COVERED
A STOOL TO SIT A AGBORAN. WITH THE LITTLE BAGS OF THAT SKIN, AN INSHE OZAIN IS LOADED.
AND A PIECE TO PUT IT AS A RUG FOR ELEGBA. THE CANS ARE LOADED AND ARE PUT ONTO
OGGUN.
WORK WITH AZONWANO SAFE TO ORUNMILA WHEN KUKUTU CAME TO EAT HIM
A ORUNMILA CAN BE PLACED A PLATE WITH 16 BRANCHES OF HOLY BASIL AND THE FRIDAY BEFORE
AT TWELVE IN THE DAY, AN EBOMISI IS PREPARED WITH THAT BASIL, EFUN, CRUDE ERAN MALU, ORI,
IYEFA OF THE ODDUN TO BATHE. AFTER HAVING STRIKED SIX IN THE AFTERNOON. A JUTIA AND TWO
IT IS IDENTICAL.
WORK OF OGBE YOKO FOR CLEANING TEETH
A long guava stick is taken, with a sharp tip; on a plate, painting is done.
OGBE YONO, OTURA SHEY ON TOP OF IT THE LITTLE STICK IS PLACED AND FOOD IS GIVEN WITH ELEGBA AND WE SING:

AFAFA BOKINO FATAWAO MADE. AFTERWARDS, THE TEETH ARE CLEANED WITH THAT LITTLE STICK.
EBBOMISI TO ATTRACT OBINI AND TO ATTRACT OKUNI
YAMAO, PARAMI, ABRE CAMINO, ROSEDA, SACUSACU, DORMIDERA, NO ME OLVIDES, PEGA POLLO,
WINNER, CINNAMON, OÑI AND RIVER WATER AND RAIN.
WORK TO RAISE THE HEALTH OF OGBE YONO
16 FUNFUN EYELE AND EIGHT AWOSES ARE NEEDED. EACH AWO TAKES TWO EYELE AND WITH THEM AL
JOIN COVER THE LERI OF OGBE YONO AND EACH OF THE AWOSES PRAYS TWO MEYI OF IFA. AFTER
THEY MAKE SARAYEYE WITH ALL THE EYELE, WHICH ARE GIVEN TO OBATALA.
WORK TO REMOVE AN EGGUN FROM THE ILE
A bowl is taken with water and pieces of yam are added, and it is placed behind the
SHILEKUN ILE, IT IS ALSO PUT A PIECE OF PLANTAIN STEM AND IYEFA. WITH A JIOJIO IT
CLEAN TO ALL PRESENT AND KILL HIMSELF NEXT TO THE IGBA THROWING EYERBALE INSIDE.
AFTER THE CONTENT OF THE IGBA IS SPRINKLED ALL OVER THE HOUSE, CRUSHING THE CONTENT FIRST
FROM THE IGBA AND THE ARA OF JIOJIO AND THROWING EPO. LATER EVERYTHING IS GATHERED AND DONE
A ball that is taken to the foot of a cactus calling Azowano.
SECRET OF OBGE YONO
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ODUDUWA AGUSU CARRIES A SMALL DRUM OF SILVER DECORATED WITH ILEKE AND GOES INSIDE THE
COFFER OF ODUDUWA.
DICE IFA
BE CAREFUL WITH PRIDE, IT MAY COST YOU YOUR LIFE, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE TO BE
SLAVE OF HIS SLAVES. DO NOT FIGHT WITH YOUR WIFE EVEN IF SHE DOES SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE.

GRADE. YOU DREAMED OF YOUR FATHER. THANK YEMAYA. YOU HAVE A VERY BAD TEMPER AND FOR
YOU HAVE A TRAGEDY; CALM DOWN. YOU HAVE THREE CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT FATHERS.
YOU ARE FOUR SIBLINGS AND THEY WANT TO BOTHER YOU. YOU THINK ABOUT EMBARKING.
BE CAREFUL WITH THAT TRIP. THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR WIFE AWAY FROM YOU. YOU CAME HERE FOR ANOTHER PERSON.

THAT WHO YOU WANT TO LOOK AT YOU CAN DIE BEFORE HER. BE CAREFUL DON'T LET IT
RAISE THE BLOOD TO YOUR HEAD. YOU OFFENDED YOUR WIFE AND SHE OFFENDED YOU. YOUR ENEMIES ARE
MOCKING YOU, BECAUSE THEY SEE YOU TODAY DEFEATED OR FALLEN. YOU MUST GIVE A STUMBLE IN THE
STREET, WHERE THEY SHOULD LAUGH AT YOU; DO NOT PAY ATTENTION AND CONTINUE ON YOUR WAY. YOU ARE VERY LATE.
DO NOT USE WEAPONS OVER (POINTED KNIFE). ON THE WAY, MONEY IS COMING TO YOU, DO NOT THROW IT AWAY
WALLETS AT YOUR FRONT DOOR. BE CAREFUL WITH A LEGAL MESS. AT YOUR DOOR THERE HAVE
THROWN SOMETHING. DO NOT DECEIVE THE BABALAWO. DO NOT GO OUT ON THE STREET UNTIL AFTER SEVEN OF THE
NIGHT. RESPECT THE CAIMAN. DO NOT RAISE YOUR HAND TO ANY WOMAN, NOR TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES
BY THE FORCE OF HALONES WHEN YOU ARE GREASY BECAUSE YOU CAN FILL YOUR BODY WITH
GRAINS. YOU SUFFER FROM THE STOMACH BECAUSE YOU HAVE A SICK MOUTH AND THE MICROBES ARE
THE DIGESTION IS ATTACKED. FIX YOUR MOUTH AND YOU WILL HEAL. BE CAREFUL WITH CROSSING THE SEA.
CHANGE HOUSES SO THAT LUCK CHANGES FOR YOU. DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR WIFE BECAUSE YOU WILL REGRET IT.
TAKE CARE AND AVOID FIGHTS. BE CAREFUL WITH A CHILD, DON'T LET HIM DIE. BE CAREFUL
DO NOT MAKE A SCANDAL. YOU AND A BROTHER DO NOT GET ALONG BECAUSE ONE WANTS TO BE MORE THAN THE OTHER

ANOTHER, THAT IS THE REASON WHY THEY ARE DELAYED. IFA SAYS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF DELAY, THAT THERE IS

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT SLEEP WELL AT NIGHT. TRY NOT TO BE OUT ON THE STREET AT NIGHT. NO
BEING JEALOUS WILL BRING BAD CONSEQUENCES. DON'T BE AMBITIOUS, DON'T LIE
ON SAINT MATTERS.
PROVERBS
OPEN YOUR MOUTH. SPEAK FAÑOSO. CALM OUR HUNGER. THE SHEEP ARE STILL WEARING THEIR
LANA OF LAST YEAR. THE BEST FORTUNE: HAVING, POWER, AND KNOWLEDGE. THE GANDIO ENLARGES THE
BEND YOUR BACK AND SHRINK YOUR HEAD. A GOAT THAT BREAKS A DRUM WITH ITS SKIN PAYS. ACCORDING TO THE

CROCODILES LIVE IN THE RIVER, SO OGBE YONO WILL BE ETERNAL. THE SHEEP THAT ASSOCIATES WITH A DOG,
SHIT EATER. HE WHO CARRIES FIRE IN HIS HAND CANNOT WAIT. HE WHO COMMITS
ADULTERY WITH A MAN'S WIFE WILL ALWAYS BE HIS ENEMY. MONEY IN THE WORLD
WE FOUND, AND IN THE WORLD WE LEFT IT. MAN MAKES A YOUNG ONE OLD, A WOMB
FULL MAKES A YOUNG MAN OLD. THE EYE DOES NOT KILL THE BIRD. WHEN THE JIBARO GOAT IS ALIVE, HE
THE BODY CANNOT BE USED FOR A DRUM, BUT WHEN IT DIES, NO ONE HESITATES TO USE ITS SKIN
LIKE A DRUM. I TRAVEL ALL OVER THE WORLD. THIS WAS WHAT OLOFIN TOLD ODUDUWA.
ESHU OF THE OGBE: ESHU ALAWANA
OTA FROM THE SEA. THE OTA WILL BE SOUGHT AT THE COAST TAKING AKARA ALIVE, FINISHED CORN, SEVEN CENTS
WHAT IS GIVEN TO YEMAYA IN THE SEA. THEN THE APPROPRIATE OTA IS SOUGHT. THE LOAD IS THE SAME
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OF ALL THE ESHUS ADDING IYE OF WATER FLOWER, PRODIGIOUS, ANTIPOLAR, THISTLE
SANTO, CURUJEY, SHEREKUEKUE, MATUERZO, ORTIGUILLA, EWE TETE, RAIZ DE ARAGBA, PALO CAJA,
Tengue, Jigui, Amanza Guapo, Guayakan, Cambia Voz, Yaya, Jocuma, Yamao, Iye de Leri de Jiojio
OF AKUKO AND OF AYAPA.
ESHU AJELE
YOU MOUNT ON A DISSECTED CAIMAN KEKE THAT GUARDS THE HOUSE OF OGBE YONO. YOU MEET WITH
A IKOKO LOADED WITH: CEMETERY SOIL, PLOUGHED SOIL, FOUR IKINES, ILEKAN, SOIL
FROM THE LAGOON, FROM THE RIVER, FROM THE SEA, FROM THE CATTLE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, FROM THE PRISON, FROM THE WOODS, A LITTLE HORSE OF THE

DIABLO, OKOKAN AND LERI OF AKUKO, THREE FANGS OF CAIMAN, ERU, OBI KOLA, OSUN NABURU, YERBA
FINA, BLEO COLORADO, EWE: HEN'S FOOT, MALE FERN, ARAGBA ROOT, FROM RED MANGROVE,
FROM JAGUEY, CALMS HANDSOME, CONQUEROR, WINS WAR, WINS BATTLE, FOR ME, YAMAO, CHANGE
VOICE, THREE BLACKBERRIES, THREE SNAILS, DRY MAZAMORRA, AMBER, GOLD, SILVER, KNIFE, NECKLACE
OF OBATALA, NECKLACE MADE OF PINE NUT SEEDS FROM BOTIJA. AN ASHERE OF SEEDS IS MADE FOR HIM
MAMEY COLORADO FILLED WITH CAIMAN BONES TO CALL IT. IT IS SURROUNDED BY A
CHAIN.
RELATION OF STORIES OR PATAKIN OF OGBE YONO
THE IÑAFA
NETWORK: SOULS RENEWING LIFE TRANSFORMING THAT WHICH GIVES LIFE TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE ELDER SPIRITUAL TEACHERS
THE YOKAN ONIFA EGUI MAYO OLOWONO AYO ELEGBA ALL YEYE OTONIFA IDA ILU ALL INSHEGUI
INCREASE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM. ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WORK HARD AND DO THEIR BEST.
ARINLA BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA FOROLOYU, IÑAFA KOFERU BOYU FURAWA OTONIBOSHE ERE IKUTASHE NARA
NARA JUN ADIFAFUN. OLUYEBE OBI ORUN AWO OBI INA AWO OLUYEBE LOBI IKU JUN. AWO OLUYEBE LOBI
ARON JUN. THOSE WHO LOVE JUN. THOSE WHO LOVE OFO JUN. THE CHILD OF YAYE ENIFA ILOKE
LOVE THE GENDER, BEING THE SPIRIT MILA ANIFEKUN ALL OUR WORK ALL OUR WORK OF KINDNESS ADIFAFUN

ORUNMILA.
EBBO: A BIG CHICKEN, ALL OVER THE WORLD, A BIG DRUM, THREE ETU, ALL ILEKE, ALL EWEFA,
I AM STRONG, GOOD, LIFE, FRIEND, HONEST, AND HANDSOME.
NOTE: THE TRUE IÑAFA HAS 16 PATHS, WHICH ARE THE 16 OSHAS AND IS CALLED ODOSHANALE ONU
IFA. AT EACH PATH A LARGE ACCOUNT MADE OF ACANA WOOD IS PLACED, WHERE
THE SIGNS OF IFA: OTURA NIKO, IRETE YERO, OGUNDA BIODEYOGUNDA FOR, ALL SIGNS
THE EGGUN. THESE PATHS ARE AS FOLLOWS IN THEIR INTERWEAVING:
1) ELEGBA: COMBINATION OF RED, WHITE AND BLACK
2) OGGUN: BLACK AND GREEN.

3) OSHOSI: AMBER AND BLUE PEACOCK.

4) ORISHAOKO: PINK, LIGHT BLUE AND SAINT JUANA.
5) INLE: BLUE PEACOCK AND JET BLACK.
6) OLIVE GREEN: MATT, BLACK AND STRIPED OF VARIOUS TYPES
7) DADA: TWO RED AND TWO WHITE.
8) SHANGO: RED AND WHITE.
9) AGGAYU: MATIPO, WATER AND YELLOW.
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10) OBATALA: WHITE, PATHS CAN BE COMBINED.

11) YEWA: RED WINE, PINK, AND CORAL.
12) OBA: MATIPO, AMBER OF OSHU AND CORAL.
OSHUN: AMBER, GREEN AND CORAL.
14) OYA: STRIPED AND MATIPO.

15) YEMAYA: BLUE AND WATER, COMBINATION OF PATHS.

16) ORUNMILA: GREEN AND YELLOW.
EACH SECTION THAT IS COMPLETED HAS ITS PRAYER AND WHEN PUTTING THE ACCOUNT OF EGGUN IT HAS ITS OWN,

ADDITIONALLY, WHEN THE ILEKE ENDS, IT HAS ITS PRAYER. THIS ILEKE EATS ONLY SEPARATELY WHEN HE
He wants to reinforce it with ETU and EYELE.
PATAKIN: IN THE LAND BEBELEKE LIVED A AWO KUKUNDUKU WHO WAS VERY ENVIED BY AWO
ELEYE, WHO WAS OMOLOGU AND WAS ALWAYS DOING BAD THINGS SO THAT AWO
KUKUNDUKU LOST HIS MEMORY, AND THAT'S WHY HE ALWAYS HAD MANY TRAGEDIES IN HIS LAND, AND
HE WAS ALWAYS TOUCHING ON ILU, IN ORDER TO REMOVE SOMEWHAT THE PROBLEM HE HAD,
WELL EVERY TIME HE SAT DOWN TO ATEFAR HE SAW OGBE YONO AND FELT SICK. ONE DAY ELEGBA
WHAT HE LIKED WAS THE MUSIC OF AWO KUKUNDUKU HE SAID: PLAY IT; THE PROBLEM YOU HAVE FOR
DEFENDING IS THAT YOU LACK A VERY BIG SECRET OF YOUR SIGN, IN THE LAND WHERE YOU
LIVE, BUT SO YOU CAN RESOLVE WE ARE GOING TO SEE AWO OLUYEBE, WHO LIVES ON EARTH
NARA NARA. AND SO BOTH SET OUT ON THE ROAD. ALONG THE ROAD THERE WERE MANY ILEKES OF
EVERYTHING SPILLED ON THE FLOOR AND ELEGBA TOLD AWO KUKUNDUKU THAT THE
RECOGNIZED AND STORED THOSE THAT IN THE FUTURE COULD BE USEFUL TO HIM, THUS WALKING THEY ARRIVED AT THE

EARTH NARA NARA, AND THERE THEY FOUND A AWO OLUYEBE WHO WAS WEAVING A VERY INALE
BEAUTIFUL. THEN THE GOD OF LOVE MADE A DIVINATION TO THE GOD KUKUNDUKU AND SAW THIS IFA WHERE HE
HE SAID THAT ALL HIS TRAGEDY WAS BECAUSE OF HIS BROTHER WHO WAS OMOLUGU AND HE HAD A LOT OF ENVY TOWARDS HIM,

BUT WHAT WAS MISSING WAS A SECRET CALLED IÑAFA ILEKE OTOÑIFA, WHICH IS MEANT TO PUT IT ON YOU
WHEN YOU SIT TO WISH, SO THAT THE DAMAGE OF YOUR ENEMIES DOES NOT REACH YOU. DO YOU REMEMBER?
THAT ON THE ROAD WHEN WE WERE COMING TO THIS LAND I TOLD YOU TO PICK ILEKE THAT YOU
PODIAN SERVIR IN THE FUTURE, THIS IS THE MOMENT, ELEGBA TOLD HIM. THEN AWO OLUYEBE
I STARTED TO STRING THE NECKLACE WHILE I WAS PRAYING AT THE INALE OF EACH OSHA OF THE NEXT
FORM:
ELEGBA OSHA MANOKAKUN BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE
THEN I ASKED FOR A GLORY OF EGGUN AND PRAYED: “INALE EGGUN KUELE AWO BOLOKE IÑAFA
KUELE OTONIBOSHE", AND CONTINUED:
2) "THE MEDICINE IS GOOD FOR THE BRAIN AS IT CAN HELP CURE SICKNESS EFFECTIVELY."

AND THE PRAYER IS REPEATED EVERY EGGUN EACH TIME A WOODEN GLORY IS PLACED.
3) "OSHOSI ATAMATASI OSHA MOSIERE BEBE ILEKO IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE".
ORISHAOKO OSHA OMARE OWAYA ALAKE AYE BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE
5) "INLE OSHA KOLE OKU ASHE OZAIN BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE".
6) "THE GOOD FORTUNE OF MY CHILD WILL BRING ME GREAT JOY."
7) "DADA OMOLOWO ABURA OSHA IBAGOLA BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE".
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8) “SHANGO BALANI OSHA BALOJU BEBE ILEKE I*AFA OTONIBOSHE”.

9) "AGGAYU SHOLA AKUO EWENIKI OSHA ODO BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE".
10) "OBATALA OSHA ORUARE OSHALOGUN BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE".
11) "YEWA OSHA ORIMA KAI OLUMAKARA BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE".
12) "THE KING WHO REFINES THE CROWN WILL HAVE A GREAT REPUTATION WITHOUT DOUBT."

13) “OSHUN AWARIYE OSHA ARIDEU OSHA IKU NANA BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE”.
14) "Oya, the traditional masquerade, is the one that brings joy to the community during the festival."

15) "YEMAYA OSHA TOWA OMI LOBA BEBE ILEKE IÑAFA OTONIBOSHE".
16) “ORUNMILA FATHER OF ALL KINGS HEAD IN THE LAND OF ODUDUWA JUST THE NECK OF IÑAFA

OTONIBOSHE
THE NETWORK HAS EGGUN ASI: “THE EGGUN CALLS, A WO BELELO IÑAFA CALLS ORUN OTONIBOSHE”.
AFTER PUTTING THE GLORY OF EGGUN AND PRAYING HIS PRAYER, THE PATH OF ORUNLA CLOSES WITH
A BLACK ACCOUNT, THEN BEGAN TO NARRATE THE IÑAFE WHILE SAYING: "AWO OLUYABE IÑAFE"
TARA NARA IKU JUN. AWO OLUYABE IÑAFE TARA NARA ARON JUN. AWO OLUYABE IÑAFE TARA NARA
HEY JUN. THIS IS A SPIRITUAL PATH OF HIDDEN FORCES JUN. THIS IS A SPIRITUAL PATH OF HIDDEN FORCES (CONTINUE) JUN

AFTER I TIE IT UP, I PRESENT IT TO THE SUN SAYING: 'ARUN OSHA AGBA ILEKE OLORUN'
OTONIFA IÑAFA OBAIBORUN OLORUN. THEN HE SAID TO AWO OLUYEBE TO AWO KUKUNDUKU: LET'S GO
NOW TO WASH IT, AND THEY GAVE HIM AFTER EATING ETU AND EYELE, AND HE MADE AWO OLUYEBE EBBO A
TO COOK WITH ALL MAGIC TILL THE TIME AND THE FLIGHT AND THE TEACHINGS OF BOTH. THEN TOOK THE
IÑAFA AND HE WAS PLACED TO AWO KUKUNDUKU, AND HE KNELT AND CROSSED HIS ARMS AND AWO OLUYEBE GAVE IT TO HIM

HE PLACED IT ON HIS HEAD WHILE PRAYING: 'IÑAFA FOROLOYU WAS IKI OTA ASHO NARA NARA'
OLUYEBE OBI ORUN OLUYEBE OBI FIRE OLUYEBE ILEKE LOYEYE OJIFE KUN ORUNMILA. AND THEN
SINGING WHEN IT WAS PUT ON: “OLUYEBE ILEKE OLUYEBE LEKEO OBINAKO KUANASHO OLUYEBE ILEKE
THE BABA'S DRESS. THEN KUKUNDUKU STARTED FEELING BETTER AND SAT DOWN
ON THE MAT AND STARTED TO TIE SALIENDO OGBE YONO, HIS SIGN, THIS GOT VERY SCARED BUT
AWO OLUYEBE CALMELY TOLD HIM NOT TO WORRY, TO TAKE A CHICKEN E
THERE WOULD BE AN AWAN WITH JUJU OF ALL BIRDS AND ALSO EBBO, SO THAT HE COULD THEN DEFEAT HIS
ENEMY. WHEN IN THE OTHER LAND AWO ELOYE SAW THE JUJU FLYING THROUGH THE AIR, AND THESE GAVE HIM
THEY STARTED TO FALL ON TOP, HE GOT SICK TO HIS STOMACH AND THAT'S HOW HE BEAT AWO KUKUNDUKU TO THE

HOMOLOGUE. THEN ORDER THAT ALL THE AWOSES OF THE EARTH BEBELEKE
WHAT WAS THE LAND OF OGBE AND YONO WILL HONOR AWO OLUYEBE, BY PUTTING ON IÑAFA WHEN THEY
SITTING ON THE MAT TO ATEFAR, SO THAT THEY DO NOT FALL ILL NOR THE EVIL OF THE ENEMIES
THEY WILL REACH. NOTE: THE AWO OGBE AND YONO WHEN IT TAKES OBA, AFTER IT ENDS THE ITA SE
DO THE EBBO, TAKE THE IÑAFA AND GIVE EYERBALE OF EYELE WITH EGGUN, AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GIVE A
AKUKO A SU IÑAFA ON TOP OF THE TABLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PATIO AND SINGS TO HER: “IÑAFA UPON BEBEWAO
THE HAND OF BOBONIBOSHE. THE DEATH OF BOBONIBOSHE. THE SON OF BOBONIBOSHE. THE BODY OF BOBONIBOSHE

BOBONIBOSHE. OFO ALAWAO BOBONIBOSHE. OGU ALAWAO BOBONIBOSHE. INA ALAWAO

BOBONIBOSHE, ETC. ALAWAO BOBONIBOSHE”. THE CHICKEN IS TAKEN LOADED TO THE RIVER AND THERE IT
BOTA.
THE REASON OSHUN EATS CAPON GOAT
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IT TURNS OUT THAT WHEN ADIFA LIVED WITH ORUNMILA AND OSHUN AS A HUSBAND, HE
HE HAD PROMISED HIS WIFE THAT IF SHE DIED HE WOULD HAVE NO MORE WOMEN AND THAT HE WOULD CASTRATE HIMSELF.

Shortly after they spoke, Oshun died, turning into a river; time passed and
ORUNMILA DID NOT FULFILL HIS COMMITMENT. ONE DAY OZAIN SANG TO ORUNMILA: 'OKURIN KUELE EKO
ADIFAYOKO OSHUN" AND THIS REMINDED HIM OF THE OATH MADE TO OSHUN. THEN OSODE WAS DONE
AND THIS ODDUN WAS SEEN, WHERE OSHUN CLAIMED HER DEBT. IFA MARKED THAT A COMPARISON IS MADE.
OWUNKO, I WILL CASTRATE IT AND I WILL WRAP THE EYES IN A PAIR OF MY UNDERWEAR AND TAKE THEM TO THE
ALAKASO SO THAT THIS WILL TAKE THEM TO OLOFIN AS PROOF OF THEIR COMPLIANCE
PROMISE, AND THAT THE DRUMS WOULD PROCLAIM TO THE FOUR WINDS THAT HE, ORUNMILA WAS
SICK. THAT AFTER THEY TOOK THE OWUNKO, THEY DRESSED HIM WITH YOUR CLOTHES AND IT
They will deliver it to IBU, so that OSHUN could receive it. Thus did ORUNMILA, and OSHUN remained.

THEREFORE, AND EVER SINCE, THE CAPON GOAT IS OFFERED TO OSHUN.

THE GOAT THAT BREAKS THE DRUM WITH ITS SKIN PAYS

PATAKIN: IN THE ARARA LAND SEVERAL AWOSES GATHERED TO PLAY THE KING'S DRUM, BUT IN
THAT LAND THE DRUM DID NOT RESOUND BECAUSE IT WAS MADE OF HUMAN SKIN. THE KING HAD DICTATED
A LAW THAT WHOEVER BROKE IT WOULD PAY WITH HIS OWN SKIN, FOR WHICH EVERYONE
THEY WERE KNOCKING QUIETLY, ALMOST FEARFULLY. ORUNMILA LEARNED THAT THERE WERE SEVERAL AWOSES THERE TO

THOSE WHO WOULD PLAY THE DRUM, BECAME OSODE AND THIS ODDUN WAS SEEN AND MADE A REQUEST WITH OWUNKO, A

AKUKO AND THEN THEY LEFT PLAYING FOR THE CEREMONIES OF THE KINGDOM, TAKING WITH THEM THE
OWUNKO OF THE PRAYER. ORUNMILA CAME OUT PLAYING THE DRUM, WHICH WAS MADE OF OWUNKO SKIN, THAT
HE SAW AT A GREAT DISTANCE AND THE KING WAS VERY STRUCK BY THE RESONANCE OF THAT
DRUM AND ITS SOUND. IMMEDIATELY I SEND AN ENVOY TO INVITE THAT MUSICIAN TO HIS
KING AND HE WILL PLAY HIS DRUM. THE MESSENGER MET WITH ORUNMILA TELLING HIM THE
INTENTIONS OF THE KING AND ORUNMILA TOLD HIM THAT HE DID NOT TREAD ON THOSE LANDS AND EVEN LESS
HE PLAYED THAT DRUM BECAUSE HE KNEW THE PROPHECY OF THE KING. THE KING, UPON HEARING THE ANSWER,
UNCOMFORTABLE AND PERSONALLY AT THE MEETING WITH ORUNMILA TO EXTEND THE INVITATION AND THAT
HE WILL TEACH HIS MUSICIANS TO PLAY THE DRUM. ORUNMILA ENTERED THE COURT PLAYING HIS
DRUM AND BEFORE LONG I HAD A CROWD BEHIND ME, UPON ARRIVING AT THE KING'S PALACE
THIS I INVITE YOU TO PLAY YOUR DRUM AND ORUNMILA RESPONDED: MAJESTY I CANNOT PLAY YOUR
DRUM, I AM USED TO PLAYING LOUD AND I'M SURE I WOULD BREAK IT AND IF THAT
IT HAPPENS THAT I HAVE TO PAY WITH MY SKIN AND YOU CANNOT FORCE ME TO DO SO. THE
OWUNKO THAT ORUNMILA CARRIED SAID: SO MUCH TROUBLE FOR TOUCHING A DRUM, WELL I AM GOING TO
TOUCHING AND SAYING AND JUMPING OVER IT AND I STARTED TO TOUCH IT, BUT AFTER A LITTLE WHILE
IT BROKE, ORUNMILA THEN SAID: MAJESTY WHO CLIMBED ON THE DRUM AND PLAYED IT WAS HIM
OWUNKO, SO PAY IT WITH HIS SKIN. OWUNKO PAID WITH HIS SKIN AND SINCE
THEN THE AWOS OF THE KINGDOM STRUCK THE DRUM MADE WITH THE SKIN OF THE
OWUNKO, AND THIS SOUNDED AND RESOUNDED LIKE THAT OF ORUNMILA. NOTE: IT IS ANSWERED THAT NOBODY
HE METS WHERE NO ONE CALLS HIM.
IMPOTENCE
PATAKIN: IT WAS A KINGDOM WHOSE RULER DESIRED ALL HIS SUBJECTS SUBJUGATED AND THOUGHT THAT
THE MORE SUBJECTS HE HAD, THE EASIER IT WOULD BE FOR HIM TO REMAIN AS SOVEREIGN. ONE DAY
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I ORDER THAT ALL MALE SUBJECTS BE CASTRATED. THERE WAS A MARRIAGE, THE MAN
HE CALLED YUMURI, WHO LIVED IN A CAVE AND UNTIL THERE ARRIVED THE KING'S SOLDIERS AND AS
HE REFUSED TO BE CASTRATED, THE SOLDIERS IN VENGEANCE CUT OFF HIS PENIS LEAVING
EMASCULATED. ONE DAY ORUNMILA ARRIVED IN THAT LAND AND MET YUMURI WHO
TELLING WHAT THE KING'S SOLDIERS HAD DONE TO HIM, ORUNMILA MADE AN OSODE AND SAW HIM
THIS IFA AND TAKING A SNAIL AND WITH THE BUG OF THE SAME I FORMED THE PENIS TO YUMURI AND WITH
HE DID IT TO HIM. THEN HE PUT OWUNKO'S TESTICLES ON HIM AND MADE HIM DRINK THE BUG'S SALIVA.
COBO FOR IT TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO SEMEN. THUS YUMURI RETURNED TO OFIKALE TRUPON WITH HIS
OBINI LA WHO LITTLE AFTER HAD A SON. ONE DAY THE KING FOUND OUT THAT YUMURI HAD A SON
AND I ANSWER: THAT CANNOT BE SINCE I MYSELF SAW WHEN MY SOLDIERS MASCULATED HIM.
BEFORE THE PERSISTENCE OF THAT RUMOR, THE KING SAID ONE DAY: LET'S GO SEE YUMURI AND IF IT IS TRUE
THAT YOUR WIFE HAS A SON I PAY WITH MY HEAD. WHEN THE KING WAS BEFORE YUMURI,
I VERIFY THE TRUTH AND THOSE WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM REMINDED HIM OF HIS OATH AND THE OBA
[Link]: THE PERSON HAS A DEFECT IN THEIR GENITAL SYSTEM THAT KEEPS THEM IN THE
IMPOTENCE.
WHEN ORUNMILA GOVERNED
NOTE: IN THIS ODDUN WERE BORN THE MULETAS, BORASU AND SHAKUANA ARE WORSHIPPED, THE SPIRIT THAT
WORK IS EKULEMPE. THIS ODDUN IS PLACED ON THE BOARD WITH THE SIGN THAT COMES OUT IN THE ITA OF
AZOWANO. BY THIS SIGN, THE CAIMAN IS TO BE RESPECTED, AND NOT TO BE GANDIO, BECAUSE YONU OR
YONA MEANS TO OPEN THE MOUTH UNMEASURABLY, THE SAME AS THE CROCODILE WHEN IT OPENS
YOUR JAWS, THIS IS A SIGNAL OF GLUTTONY AND SLOTH.
SUYERE: SHEBERE BOKOMO ABE IKU SHEBERE BOKOMO SOKU SE LE PONE UNA CUCHILLA DE ELGBA AL
IALAKE OF ORUNLA, IN ADDITION TO WHICH A GUDAGKO OR A KNIFE OF IS PUT ON ORUNLA
CAMPAIGN.
PATTERN: THEY SAY THAT AT ONE TIME OBATALA WAS THE ONE WHO RULED AND THAT THE PEOPLE WERE
DYING OF HUNGER. THE PEOPLE GATHERED AND WENT TO COMPLAIN WHERE OBATALA, THEY TOLD HIM THAT
THEY WERE HUNGRY AND ASKED WHAT TO EAT. OBATALA ANSWERED THEM: GO TAKE WATER, WHICH
WE WILL SEE HOW THE FOOD COMES. THE PEOPLE REBELLED AGAINST OBATALA AND
THEY WENT TO COMPLAIN TO OLOFIN THAT THEY NO LONGER WANTED OBATALA, THAT THEY WANTED ANOTHER RULER
AND THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE OGGUN. THEN OGGUN WAS DISPOSED TO GOVERN, BUT NOT
THEY SOLVED THEIR PROBLEMS WITH THIS SINCE HUNGER AND MISERY CONTINUED. DEVASTATED THE
PEOPLE, THEY GATHERED AGAIN AND WENT TO WHERE OGGUN AND COMPLAINED THAT HE
ALSO, I WAS KILLING THEM WITH HUNGER; THAT I GAVE THEM TO EAT. OGGUN TOOK AND GAVE EACH ONE
THEY GAVE THEM A PIECE OF STICK SO THAT IN THIS WAY THEY COULD KILL HUNGER, WHILE THE
FOOD, BUT THIS NEVER ARRIVED. A NEW REBELLION EMERGED AND THEY DESTROYED OGGUN,
THEN THEY WENT TO LOOK FOR ORUNMILA, THIS SAME DAY HE HAD GIVEN TWO CHIVAS TO
ORUNMILÁ. WHEN THE INHABITANTS ARRIVED AT ORUNLA'S HOUSE, THEY PRESENTED THE SITUATION AND
THEY TOLD HIM THAT THEY CHOSE HIM TO GOVERN THE PEOPLE, SINCE THEY WANTED
A RULER WHO WOULD GIVE THEM TO EAT. ORUNLA OF THE TWO GOATS HE HAD GIVEN TO SAN
FRANCISCO GAVE A PIECE TO EACH ONE AND THE TOWN LEFT VERY HAPPY AND ORUNLA SINCE
ON THAT DAY HE STAYED GOVERNING THAT TOWN. WHEN THIS ROAD COMES OUT, TWO GOATS ARE GIVEN TO
ORUNLA IN SIGN OF GRATITUDE.
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OGBE YONO DIES FOR GANDIO

Once upon a time, there was a great mortality and Olofin sent to look for the Awo.
WHAT THIS SIGN HAD, THIS WAS IN HIS HOUSE IN COMPANY OF THREE MORE, AND ALL WENT TO
HOUSE OF OLOFIN, TO WHICH THEY MADE OSODE LEAVING THIS IFA AND SENDING THE AWOSES TO
MAKE EBBO WITH: BULL, DOVE BASKET, A BASKET OF ADIE, EKU, EYA, EPO, AKUKO,
OPOLOPO OWO. AFTER THE VISIT, THE AWOSES LEFT AND WENT TO THE HOUSE OF THE BABALAWO.
WHO HAD BEEN CALLED BY OLOFIN. AT THE END OF LUNCH, OLOFIN SENT A MESSAGE TO
INFORM THAT HE ALREADY HAD EVERYTHING THEY HAD REQUESTED. THEN THE BABALAWO OGBE YONO, WHO
HE HAD CALLED OLOFIN, FROM GANDIO, HE TOLD THE OTHERS TO LEAVE URGENTLY BECAUSE
OLOFIN WAS ANGRY WITH THE EBBO THAT THEY HAD MARKED FOR HIM, AS HE BELIEVED THEY WERE GOING TO
DECEIVE, AND THE BABALAWOS LEFT IN A HURRY. THEN THE AWO OGBE YONO WAS
FOR THE HOUSE OF OLOFIN AND HE DID THE EBBO ALONE, HE SENT THE ANIMALS TO HIS HOUSE AND HE TOOK
ALL THE MONEY. THE EBBO HAD NO EFFECT AND MORTALITY CONTINUED. OLOFIN UPON SEEING THAT THE
DEATH CONTINUED SENDING TO GET THE THREE AWOSES THAT MARKED EBBO FOR HIM. AWO OGBE
YONO I TOLD HIM THAT THE OTHERS HAD LEFT. THEN OLOFIN SENT THEM TO LOOK FOR HIM
WITH A MESSENGER AND THEY RETURNED. WHEN OLOFIN ASKED THEM THEY ANSWERED THAT
OGBE YONO I COMMUNICATE THAT THEY SHOULD LEAVE QUICKLY BECAUSE HE WAS FURIOUS FOR HOW MUCH
THAT THEY HAD ASKED HIM. OLOFIN ASKED THEM IF THEY COMMITTED TO DOING IT
EBBO AND ENDING WITH MORTALITY, AND THEY SAID YES. THEY DID THE EBBO AND TOOK THE
BULL AND THEY GAVE IT TO THE SEA, THE AKUKO TO THE LAND, THE DOVES TO THE HILL, THE HENS TO THE RIVER
AND PART OF THE MONEY TO THE CEMETERY. AND SO THE MORTALITY ENDED; BUT DESPITE THIS THE EBBO
HE DID NOT CLOSE, AND AS OLOFIN HAD OGBE YONO CAPTURED, HE WENT IN THE [Link]: OGBE
YONO DIES FOR GANDIO.
HERE BORN THE SECRET OF THE HEAD BUILDER
REZO: BITI EBOKO NIYEDI CUCO ADIFAFUN ORISHAOKO OMO OGGUN ADIFAFUN ORILOMORE OMO YO
THE LIGHT OF THE HEAVENS IS SHINING ON THE WORLD, OLUMIDE HAS ENTERED AND BROUGHT GOODNESS TO THE PEOPLE

MEMOTA TODARUKO WONYI OKENIWO NIGRATODOJE KAN NIWORA OHIMO KERE KAWO OLESILE AYE
WONIBI AWO BADE LE AYE BOYA IBALOSAN AWO JU ORUN NA LO AGBALAGBA SUJUWO WON NILATIKOKO
LOBI ODO AJACA LOTI IKUIN NIBO EWE KANANIE KILATI SA MEBANLO ILE AJACA NIKI OMA LO SARATA
BABARI LONA NIKI WON OTOKON SEDA OSALAIYE ODILA AJACA AJAMO TOMON OSEI BIWON BARINDE
WE ARE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD IN OUR AGENCY WHEN THE FATHER OF THE HOUSE IS WORKING
ORUNMILA AWO IFA AND OSUN DO NOT SYNC WITH THE MINIBE OMIBOPI AS THE CORE AJALA LEMERE KUILE
AJACA JIRASI JEN MIMON BABIN KURE LODARE NIBA TI WUN DELE AJACA JIRASI WUN OBANILE AJACA
BADUKUE KURO LODARE NIBA TI WUN DELE AJACA JIRASI IWUN OBANILE AJACA BADUKUE LOWO
THE OPENING OF THIS POLICY IS AIMED AT IMPROVING THE HEALTH SECTOR IN NIGERIA.

EBBO: AURE, YERI AGBONA, A IRON STICK, ADIE, EYELE, EKU, EYA, EPO, OÑI, IYE, GBOGBO
THOUSAND, YOUR HANDS, MANY MONEY.
NOTE: HERE THE SECRET OF THE HEAD BUILDER NAMED AJALA WAS BORN, THIS IS
IT SYMBOLIZES THE AURE DE ORUNMILA THAT IS PLACED DRY NEXT TO ORUNMILA, FOR BEING
OWN RIGHT TO HAVE HEAD IN THE EARTH. IN ADDITION, IFA IS MADE, BROTH IS TAKEN FROM
BRAIN OF THE AURE OF ORUNMILA. IN THIS IFA THE SECRET OF MEMORIZING AND CONCENTRATING WAS BORN
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THE SECRETS AND LEGENDS OF IFA. IT CARRIES OUT TWO CEREMONIES AT THE FOOT OF TWO TREES THAT ARE
THE OWNERS OF THIS SECRET AT THE FOOT OF WHICH AJALA OR AJAKA LIVES. THE FIRST IS IQUI
ASHERIN WHAT IS THE CEYEPUT TREE, THIS HAS THE POWER TO NOURISH MODUN MODUN ORI AND GIVES
THE POWER OF ENCOURAGEMENT (INTELLIGENCE) AND OF OFIKALE TRUPON ODARA. THIS TREE IS GIVEN IN THE
WHITE AKUKO ROOTS AND IT IS BURIED AT THE FOOT OF A JOROJORO, CALLING AJAKA WITH IT
NEXT PRAYER: "AJALA EMIMORAN ORI KUELE BELEBELE IQUI TOKU ENIMO MODAN ERI BIWO ODARA
MOBEDE AYE EMIMO ODARA”. THEN THE LEAVES ARE GATHERED AND COOKED AND THAT WATER IS TAKEN
LIKE COMMON WATER. THE SECOND CEREMONY IS THE MATA OF IQUI ATORI, A BRANCH OF ATORI IS TAKEN
GIVING IT EYELE OKAN, THEN ONE TAKES A SNAPPER AND THE MACE TO COVER THE LERI AND TAKES EKRU AND
LEAVES OF ATORI WITH THE STRIPED OBI, ORI, EFUN, EYA, ATARE; THIS HAS THE FOLLOWING PRAYER: "BABA
OMO NIKO DARO ORUNMILA APEJA, REIJA MILOJU OFO GEGE OWA FIMU NISHONA KOTA MINU MILAYE
ETI MOBAYA MAME EYA LENI SI SIN INO ATORI LOMI ATARE SIMISIYEKUN BABA DERE INU OMI ALAYE
MENU FOR LARGE GATHERING OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE THIS YEAR NOBLE CLASS LAST NIGHT.
AFTER THE ROGATION, ONE GOES TO THE TOP OF A HILL AND IS GIVEN EYELE OKAN FUNFUN AND IS
LEAVE AN ITANA OKAN TURNED ON.
PATAKIN: IN THE LAND OF IBITI NI ELE, LIVED ORISHEKU THE SON OF OGGUN ORILLOMERE, THE SON OF
ORUN AND AFABAKUE THE SON OF ORUNMILA. THE THREE WERE GREAT FRIENDS AND DECIDED TO GO HOME
FROM OLORDUMARE TO CHOOSE HIS HEADS; TOGETHER THEY CAME DOWN TO EARTH AND WENT TO SEE ODUDUWA
WHO WAS THE OLDEST WISE MAN OF THE EARTH EBITI, HE TOLD THEM: TO ACHIEVE THEIR HEADS THEY HAVE
GO TO AJALA'S HOUSE, WHO IS THE ONE THAT BUILDS THE HEADS WITH THE ASHE HE GAVE
OLODUMARE, NOW, YOU MUST OBSERVE A PROHIBITION TO COME DOWN TO EARTH
WHEN YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO AJALA'S HOUSE. IMMEDIATELY I ASK THEM IF YOU HEAR THE VOICE
FROM YOUR PARENTS WHO CALL THEM, WHAT WILL THEY DO? CONTINUE STRAIGHT TO THE HOUSE OF AJALA TO GET
OUR HEADS Y THEN LATER WE WILL SEE WHAT OUR PARENTS WANTED. IT
THEY BOWED AND SWORE BEFORE ODUDUWA THAT THEY WOULD DO SO. THEY PREPARED TO LEAVE
FOR THE HOUSE OF AJALA, THE POTTER WHO BUILT THE HEADS IN THE WORLD AND THEY CAME OUT TO
PATH, THEY REACHED THE LAND OF AFABERE UNYARE NIBITEBBO UNYAN KUELU OBINI AND WHEN
THEY ENTERED SINGING: “EGGUN AWA INLE O BABA EJO QUINTOLE ONA FUN ODE AJALA INLE”.
THEN THE CHIEF OF THOSE LANDS WHO MASHED YAM USING A NEEDLE, SHOWED HIM
THE WAY TO GET TO AJALA'S HOUSE, HE ASKED THEM FOR HELP TO PILE THE YAM AND AFAWAKO, HE
SON OF ORUNLA TOOK THE NEEDLE AND SPENT THREE DAYS GRINDING YAM; IN THE END THEY LEFT,
I ACCOMPANY A PASSAGE AFABERE, GUYAN AWA, WHO WAS THE CHIEF OF THOSE LANDS OF THE
EGGUN. AFTER A WHILE, THEY TURNED RIGHT AND ENCOUNTERED A DOORMAN AND SAID TO HIM
THEY ASKED ABOUT THE HEADS OF AJALA, HE SHOWED THEM THE WAY (BUT NOT THE TRUE ONE),
AND THEY TRAVELED A GOOD DISTANCE AND REACHED A PLACE THAT WAS FULL OF WEAPONS. RISHEKU THE
SON OF OGGUN, RECOGNIZED THAT HE WAS IN A LAND OF HIS FATHER AS HE MOVED WITH
THOSE ARCHES, ARROWS, SWORDS AND SANG: "OGGUN TOMU OFA TOMU, ORUN NI BARA, NI AUN KUALE,
WHEN THE DEVIL CAME, SO THE ORISHA SAID TO AFAWAKUE THAT HE SHOULD STAY
HELPING HIS FATHER OGGUN TO PREPARE FOR WAR, BUT THEY TOLD HIM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT
DEVIATE ACCORDING TO ODUDUWA, FROM YOUR PATH, ORISHEKU TOLD HIM IT IS TRUE AND GAVE HIM TWO AKUKO
YOUR FATHER OGGUN AND CONTINUED HIS PATH. THEY ARRIVED AT ORUNMILA'S HOUSE AND HEARD THAT HE
HE WAS HITTING THE AJEPON WITH HIS IROFA, AS HE WAS MAKING EBBO, THEN AFAWAKUE THEM
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HE SAID: I NEED TO SEE MY FATHER, THE OTHERS ANSWERED HIM, WE ARE NOT STAYING,
WE CONTINUE TRAVELING. WHEN ORUNMILA SAW HIS SON, HE SAID TO HIM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? AND HE
CONTEXT, LET'S GO TO THE EBITI LAND TO FIRST SEE AJALA TO FIND OUR
HEADS. THEN ORUNMILA TOOK HIS OKPELE AND SAID TO HIS SON: IF YOU SEEK HEADS
COME CLOSER AND WITH HIS TOOLS, OKPELE AND IGGBOS TOUCHED THE HEAD SAYING: "AFIKAN AGO
LERI OMOFA LORA ERI ODE", ENTONCES LE HIZO OSODE SALIENDO OGBE YONO, DONDE IFA LE DECIA A
ORUNMILA THAT ONE OF HIS SONS WAS GOING DOWN THE ROAD OF SOME PLACE IN SEARCH OF A GOOD
HEAD, BUT I HAD TO MAKE EBBO WITH EVERYTHING THAT WAS FOOD OF AYALA, EPO, OBI, EFUN,
IN YOUR OPINION, MOTHER, SHE, HE, CHICKEN AND COUNTLESS WEALTH. ORUNMILA MADE AN OFFERING TO HIS CHILD AND GAVE HIM EVERYTHING.

WHAT DOES THE EBBO CARRY SO THAT IT WOULD TAKE IT WITH HIM AND HE SET OUT ON THE WAY TO THE LAND OF AJALA.

MEANWHILE THE SONS OF ORUN AND OGGUN RETURNED TO THE FIRST DOORMAN AND HE
THEY ASKED ABOUT THE HOUSE OF AJALA AND HE TOLD THEM IT WAS VERY FAR AND THEY ANSWERED
THAT IT DID NOT MATTER AND THEY CONTINUED ON THEIR WAY. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT AJALA'S HOUSE, HE DID NOT

THEY WERE AND DECIDED TO WAIT FOR HIM. WHEN THEY SAW THAT DAYS WERE PASSING AND HE DID NOT RETURN,

THEY WENT OUT TO ASK THE PEOPLE OF AJALA BECAUSE THEY NEEDED THEM TO GIVE THEIR
HEADS. THEN IN THE VILLAGE THEY TOLD THEM THAT THIS WAS AJALA'S MISSION, MANY HEADS
THEY WERE DISPOSED, SO THEY DECIDED TO WAIT FOR AJALA AND BY THEIR OWN MEANS
THEY FOUND THEIR HEADS AND ENTERED THE TEMPLE OF AJALA. WHEN ORISHEKU ENTERED, HE CHOSE
A HEAD OF RECENT CONSTRUCTION, WHICH AJALA HAD NOT HARDENED, ORILLOMERE
HE ALSO ENTERED AND CHOSE A HEAD, NOT KNOWING THAT IT WAS BROKEN, THE TWO PUT ON
THEY SHINY HEADS AND HAPPY SET OUT ON THE RETURN TO THEIR LANDS; WHEN
IT STARTED TO RAIN VERY HEAVILY AND THE RAIN BEGAN TO STRIKE VIOLENTLY
THE HEADS OF ORILLOMERE AND ORISHEKU BECAUSE THE HEADS OF THESE SOFTENED AND
THEY CRACKED, DEFORMED ON ALL SIDES AND BECAME CRUSHED AND
SMALL ONES, THEY DUE TO THIS STARTED TO STRUGGLE AND DECIDED TO GO SEE
ORUNMILA WHERE THIS IFA CAME FROM AND ORUNMILA TOLD THEM: YOU HASTENED AND CHOSE
THE BAD HEADS, THOSE THAT WERE NOT FINISHED, ALSO DID NOT OBEY ODUDUWA WHO
I INDICATE TO YOU WHAT YOU HAD TO DO, ALSO YOU DID NOT KNOW THAT OGBE YONO IS THE IFA OF AJALA
AND THEY CANNOT GO OUT IN THE RAIN, THAT'S WHY HE DID NOT RETURN TO HIS HOUSE UNTIL IT CLEARED UP AND YOU.

THEY DIDN'T WAIT FOR IT, TAKING THE INITIATIVE, THEY TOOK THE BAD HEADS AND THEY FELL APART.
WITH THE RAIN, NOW THEY HAVE TO USE THE REMAINS OF THEM TO BUILD A NEW ONE AND
GOOD, IN ORDER TO PROSPER. THEN THEY HAD TO MAKE OBORI ELEDA TO BE ABLE TO
RESTORE YOUR HEADS. IN THE MEANTIME, AFAWAKUE, THE SON OF ORUNMILA SET OUT ON THE PATH OF
HOUSE OF AJALA AND HE MET ELEGBA WHO WAS THE DOORMAN AND HE ASKED HIM FOR THE WAY AND
ELEGBA TOLD HIM TO WAIT FOR HIM TO COOK HIS KALALU SOUP FIRST. AFAWAKUE
I patiently wait and help him light the fire and notice that Elgba was putting ashes inside.
OF THE KALALU, THEN AFAWAKUE ASKED HIM THE QUESTION WHY HE DID THIS AND HE ANSWERED HIM, TO
THAT CAN BE EATEN AND HAS TASTE OF SOMETHING. AFAWAKUE I TAKE ALL THE THINGS HE HAD.
EBBO AND THE ECHO IN THE KALALU OF ELEGBA AND THE HEAD OF OWUNKO THAT WAS EATING AND
WHEN ELEGBA TRIED HE SAID: WHAT A TASTY THING THIS IS, GIVE ME MORE AND AFAWAKUE SAID; ME
I WILL ALWAYS GIVE YOU WHEN I EAT, NOW TAKE ME TO AJALA'S HOUSE. ELEGBA SET OUT ON THE ROAD VERY
HAPPY AND SINGING: “AWO ASHE BEBE ABERE LUBE AWO ODARA AJALA MALONA”. WHEN
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THEY ARRIVED AT AJALA'S HOUSE AND FELT A VERY LOUD NOISE AND ELEGBA TOLD HIM: IT IS THE HOUSE OF
AJALA, THEN, IF YOU WANT, YOU CAN SERVE AJALA AND PAY HIS DEBTS WHEN HE HAD LEFT, HE
CREDITOR OF AJALA CAME DOWN FROM THE ROOF AND GREETED AFAWAKUE AND THIS GREETING TO AJALA, WHERE
ELEGBA TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS THE SON OF ORUNLA AND THAT HE HAD PAID HIS DEBTS AND THEN AJALA SAID:
HOW CAN I PAY YOU? AFAWAKUE ANSWERS: I CAME FROM VERY FAR IN SEARCH OF THE HEAD
MOST PERFECT, AJALA TOLD HIM: IT'S OKAY, AMONG ALL THEY WILL SEARCH FOR THE MOST PERFECT, BUT I HAVE
WHAT TO EAT. ELEGBA GAVE LERI OF CHICKEN AND KALALU AND UPON TASTING SAID, WHAT IS THIS THAT IS
SO TASTY, THIS IS THE SECRET OF THE SON OF ORUNMILA AND THEN AFAWAKUE GAVE TO AJALA AND
WHILE I ATE I SANG: "EPO MALERO EPO MALERO AJALA EPO MALERO IYO MALERO, IYO"
MALE, AJALA I AM MALE”. AND AJALA FELT STRENGTHENED AND SAID TO AFAWAKUE, LET'S SEE MY
TEMPLE, THERE WERE 101 HEADS, AJALA TOOK A CENTER OF IRON AND A LERI AND THIS BROKE
IN PIECES, THIS WAY HE DID WITH SEVERAL UNTIL ONE DID NOT BREAK AND HE SAW THAT IT WAS VERY HARD AND

PERFECT, THEN SHE TOOK IT AND GAVE EVERY ASHE MODUN ERI AND GAVE IT TO THE SON OF
ORUNMILA. AFAWAKUE WAS PLACED ON TOP AND LEFT FOR HIS LAND, THAT LAND WAS
BURROWS AND IT ALWAYS RAINED AND HE WENT OUT SINGING IN THE RAIN: 'ERI NIKAN BIMBOBA MUINE
Layo Umbo Odara Obeyano Awo Ode Ajala. His head, despite the water, remained intact.
AND I STARTED TO GUESS AND TO EARN A LOT OF MONEY, WHEN I ARRIVED AT HIS LAND I WAS ALREADY RICH. HE HAD

A GOOD HOUSE AND MANY OBINI AND OMO. AND THEY GAVE IT THE NAME OF OGBE YONO ERI SAMI AWO OGBE
YONO (THE ONE WITH THE BAPTIZED HEAD). ORISHEKU AND ORILLOMERE, UPON SEEING HIM SAID: HOW IS IT POSSIBLE
WHETHER HE BROUGHT THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF AJALA LIKE WE DID WITH HIS, MAY IT BE GOOD AND THE

WE BAD; AFAWAKUE ANSWERED THEM THAT BY OBEDIENCE TO IFA, AND ALSO OUR
HEADS CAME OUT FROM THE SAME PLACE, BUT OUR DESTINIES ARE DIFFERENT AND SO OGBE COULD
YONO BE GREAT. NOTE: HERE WAS BORN THE SECRET OF SEASONING THE HEADS OF THE SACRIFICES
TO GIVE FOOD TO AJALA, THE ORISHA OF HEADS, THIS AJALA IS A PATH OF OBATALA
THAT IS PRESENTED BY THE LERI OF THE ORISHA ANIMAL OF IFA, IN ADDITION TO ITS IRON ROD THAT
THIS IS FINISHED WITH A SMALL WOODEN HEAD OF ATORI THAT IS LOADED WITH MODUN, ERI,
EGGUN, OBI KOLA, OSUN, AIRA, LERI EYA, ORUN LERI DE AURE DE ORUNMILA, LERI NI AJANAKU Y
AFOSHE OF 21 ROOTS. ALSO HERE IS BORN IN THIS IFA THE ONE WHO TOUCHES THE HEAD WITH THE OKPELE AND
THE IKINES TO GUESS A PERSON. THIS IFA SPEAKS OF THE STRAIGHT PATH SO THAT HE/SHE CAN
RESOLVE THE PURPOSES. AN IFA OF WEALTH AND WILL.
HERE BEGINS THE UNIFICATION OF THE WORLD, AS WELL AS THE UNION OF HUMAN BEINGS

NETWORK: TO GRASP THE FISH, LET US GRASP THE FISH AND LET THE FISH SWIM AS WE HARVEST THE GOOD FISH
THE CHILD OF THE HOUSE WILL GROW IN GOOD FORTUNE IF WE HELP THEM WITH LOVE, THEY WILL BECOME GREAT AND BRING GOODNESS TO THE FAMILY.

TINCHE ME AGUO NI LARA OGBE YONO OBAKI OBO IFA LAYE NIFA OMO LALA NIFA OGBE YONO IFA NIYA LE
ASHEKUN OTA IFA CHILD OF LADE KAFEREFUN ORUNMILA IFA KAFEREFUN KING TALA KAFEREFUN OGGUN IFA
THE REPUBLIC OF SHANGO.

EBBO: WHITE CHICKEN, CROWING ROOSTER, ALL JUJUS, ROOSTER WITH CLOTHES, ALL REWARDS, ALL INDOORS, ALL
ERAN, ALL ANIMALS, COW, GOAT, ALL BIRDS, ALL LEAVES.
PATAKIN: BEFORE HUMAN BEINGS AND THE EARTH LIVED SEPARATE FROM ONE ANOTHER. OLOFIN LIVED
FOR THIS VERY SAD AND COMPLEX SEEING THE DISUNITY THAT EXISTED AMONG MEN; THE
THAT HE SHOULD NOT EAT HE WENT WITHOUT EATING BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE TO GIVE HIM A PIECE OF
PAN, I WILL NOT HELP YOU. OBATALA WHO WAS ALSO VERY SAD ABOUT THAT, WENT TO SEE OLOFIN,
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THEY STARTED TO TALK ABOUT THIS SITUATION AND REACHED A CONCLUSION: IT WAS
NECESSARY TO SEND FOR SHANGO TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. OBATALA CAME OUT IN
SEARCH OF SHANGO, BUT WHO WAS FOUND WAS ORUNMILA, AFTER TELLING HIM THE
DISGUSTED WAS OLOFIN AND THE AGREEMENT MADE, ORUNMILA TOOK OUT THE OKPELE AND SAW THIS
ODDUN Y SAID: NOT ONLY SHOULD WE SEARCH FOR SHANGO BUT ALSO FOR OGGUN, BUT BEFORE GOING TO
SEARCHING FOR IT IS NECESSARY TO PUT BEHIND THE DOOR OF OLOFIN ITANA THEY WERE TO OGGUN. AFTERWARDS

IN FACT, BOTH OF THEM WENT OUT TO LOOK FOR OGGUN AND SHANGO, AND THEY WERE SINGING: 'OGBE YONO
OGBARA, OBA ODEO, IS SHANGO THE HUNTER OF OGGUN'S CHILDREN A LA GUADALUPE. OGGUN AND SHANGO VIVIAN ONE

IN FRONT OF THE OTHER, EACH ONE IN HIS LAND, UPON SEEING WHO WAS APPROACHING THEY RAN OUT
THEY MET AND EMBRACED, THEN THEY SAID TO THEM, THIS UNION YOU HAVE MADE IS THE
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IN THE WORLD, SO THAT LIFE CAN BE MORE PLEASANT AND BETTER
SHARED AMONG ALL, SO THAT OLOFIN CAN LIVE A LITTLE MORE HAPPY AND CALM. UPON HEARING
THIS, THE ANSWER DID NOT TAKE LONG, SHANGO SAID: WE WILL TRY BY ALL MEANS AND
WITH EVERYONE'S HELP, LET THE FORCES OF THE DIFFERENT LANDS UNITE, AND THUS BEINGS
HUMANS LIVE MORE UNITED, ALTHOUGH THERE WILL ALWAYS BE DIFFICULTIES, ENVY, AMBITION AND
THE WAR BETWEEN SOME AND OTHERS. THE WORLD, CONTINUING TO SAY, CANNOT BE LIKE YOU.
THEY WANT, IN THAT WAY HUMAN BEINGS COME TO AN END. OGGUN AND I WILL MAKE IT EXIST
SOME UNION AND WE WILL SEEK THAT MANY HUMAN BEINGS SHARE THEIR THINGS WITH OTHERS. AND
SO THEY PREPARED TO RETURN TO OLOFIN'S HOUSE, ON THE WAY THEY WERE PICKING UP A LITTLE OF
LAND OF EACH OF THEM, AS WELL AS THE THINGS AND PRODUCTS THAT WERE IN EACH ONE;
WHILE THEY WALKED OBATALA TOLD ORUNMILA THAT IN HIS JUDGMENT SOMETHING WAS MISSING, IN THOSE
MOMENTS ORUNMILA SAW A WHITE CHICKEN AND HE TOOK IT. WHEN HE ARRIVED AT OLOFIN'S HOUSE, ORUNMILA
HE FELT AND MADE A REQUEST TO SHANGO AND OGGUN, HE GAVE FOOD TO THE WHITE ROOSTER AND AFTERWARDS
HAPPY THEY WENT TO FIND SOME HUMANS TO TEACH THEM GOODNESS. SO SHANGO WITH
HIS WORDS AND OGGUN WITH HIS STRENGTH MANAGED TO CONVINCE SOME PEOPLE. UPON HIS RETURN
FROM THE HOUSE OF OLOFIN, THEY MET ON THE WAY TO ORUNMILA AND OBATALA WHO WERE COMING
SINGING: "THE CHILDREN OF OLOFIN IN THE WORLD STIRRING A WITCH STIRRING THE WITCH'S YARD CALLS UPON ANYONE" LARERO OMO IFA
LALEO". THE FOUR UNITE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE OF OLOFIN AND ORUNMILA, THEY SAID: DAD, ALREADY
WE HAVE DONE EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER, SOME WILL DO WELL AND OTHERS WILL NOT. OLOFIN
HE UNDERSTOOD THAT NOTHING ELSE COULD BE ACHIEVED AND SAID: THEY HAVE ACHIEVED QUITE A BIT, THEY HAVE DONE

ALL YOUR EFFORTS AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL VERY HAPPY, THAT'S WHY I HAVE TO DO THE
WELL, SHANGO AND OGGUN WILL WORK TOGETHER. THIS IS HOW THE LANDS UNITED AND THAT IS WHY THE POWER OF
SHANGO AND OGGUN IN THE WORLD ARE ONE AND THERE EXISTS A POWER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE
HUMAN BEINGS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
WHERE THE OWUNKO IS MOUNTED AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH OSHUN

PATKIN: ON ITS WAY TO THE LAND OF DAHOMEY OMOLU OGBE YONO TOOK A LONG TIME IN
ARRIVING, CROSSING THE RUGGED AND LONG ROAD TO ARRIVE, AT THE TOWN OF SHAKI FOUND
WITH A YAWN FROM THAT CITY CALLED OTTANAGOSO, WHICH HAD MANY LARGE OWUNKOS AND
BEARDS THAT SERVED AS A SADDLE IN THOSE PLACES AND SHE, SEEING HIM SO TIRED, GAVE HIM
I OFFERED TO OGBE YONO WHO WAS THE GUIDE OF OMOLU, AN OWUNKO, TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY AND
HE GAVE HIM A BADGE SO THAT WHEREVER HE WENT HIS SERVANTS WOULD OFFER TO HIM
PRESENTS AND A FRESH OWUNKO THESE ACCOUNTS OF YOUR ILEKE AND BEAUTIFUL STONES OF YOUR KINGDOM
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WHAT WOULD IDENTIFY IT AS SHAKI'S AYABA, IT FORMED THE INSIGNIA THAT GAVE IT TO ME. FIVE DAYS
DELAYED THE JOURNEY FROM SHAKI TO SAYA, FIVE POSTS I PASSED AND IN EACH ONE OF THEM TO THE
SHOW THE BADGE RECEIVED FROM THE SERVANTS OF OTTANAGOSO GREAT GIFTS OF FRUITS
AND SNAILS WITH OGBE YONO, FROM THEN UNTIL HIS CORONATION IN DAHOMEY, EVERY DAY
HIS FAME AND POWER OF OMOLU WERE GREATER, AND LATER HE WAS TITLED ASOJUANO, THIS IS WHY
THAT THE SECRET OF OGBE YONO IS TO GIVE FIVE OWUNKO TO OSUN TO BE GREAT. FOR THIS
THE VODEUNSI ASOJUANO MOUNTS THE OWUNKO IN THEIR CEREMONY IN MEMORY OF THE PROCESSION THAT
THIS WAS DONE FROM SHAKI TO SAVE AND THE AWO GIVES TO THE OWUNKO MOUNTED BY THE VODEUNSI FIVE
ROUNDS AROUND THE YARNUA BEFORE MOUNTING IT IN MEMORY OF THE FIVE DAYS THAT
THEY RENDERED OGBE YONO AND AZOJUANO, ONE AS A GUIDE AND THE OTHER AS A RIDER FROM SHAKI TO
I
THE PROUD ONE WHO DID NOT LOOK FOR LESS THAN $1.05

NETWORK: HE WHO IS WEALTHY IS VALUABLE TO ORUNMILA, OBARA BANIREGUN.

EBBO: CHICKEN, HEN, PHEASANT, BIRD, OFFERING, ALL ACCORDING, FUNERAL, MANY HANDS.
PATAKIN: OGBE YONO WAS A VERY PROUD PERSON, DID NOT LOOK AT ANYONE FOR LESS THAN $1.05. ONE DAY
A beggar arrived at his house for him to look at, but since he did not have the complete money.
OGBE YONO SE NEGO TO LOOK AT IT. INVESTIGATING, THE BEGGAR ARRIVED AT THE HOUSE OF A POOR AWO AND

I LOOK AT THIS FOR $0.05, WHICH WAS THE ONLY THING HE OWNED, AND I MAKE A REQUEST TO HIM.
THE BEGGAR TOLD THE AWO THAT HE HAD MONEY ALTHOUGH NOT FOR THE PRAYER AND HE PROVIDED IT TO HIM
NECESSARY AND HE SAID TO HIM: YOU MUST PUT THE REQUEST (EBBO) AT THE DOOR OF THE KING'S PALACE.
THE BEGGAR SAID THAT HE WAS AFRAID BECAUSE THEY MIGHT CATCH HIM; IF THAT HAPPENS, ANSWERED THE AWO,
IT WILL BE A LUCK FOR YOU. AND THE BEGGAR WENT OUT READY TO DO IT, HE TOOK THE EBBO AND WHEN
HE PUT IT BEHIND THE DOOR THEY CAUGHT HIM. HE DEMANDED HIS CAPTORS TO TAKE HIM BEFORE
THE KING AND WHEN HE CAME BEFORE HIM, THE KING ASKED HIM: TELL ME WHAT IT CONTAINED
PACKAGE THAT YOU PUT ON MY DOOR? AND THE BEGGAR ANSWERED, IT WAS MONEY FROM PRODUCT
FROM THE ALMS I COLLECT TO EAT. THE KING AT FIRST DID NOT BELIEVE HIM AND ASKED HIM IF
HE HAD A FAMILY, TO WHICH HE REPLIED THAT HE ONLY HAD A FATHER WHO WAS A POOR AWO. THE KING
I SENT TO LOOK FOR THE AWO THAT THE BEGGAR IN A SHOW OF GRATITUDE HAD SAID WAS HIS
FATHER. WHEN THIS ARRIVED, THE KING ORDERED HIM TO SIT NEXT TO HIM, THE AWO SAT DOWN
RIGHT AND THE KING COULD NOT SIT LIKE THIS. THE AWO ASKED HIM WHY HE COULD NOT SIT.
RIGHT AND IMMEDIATELY HE SAID: YOUR MAJESTY, YOU CANNOT SIT UP STRAIGHT BECAUSE YOU HAVE
A GRAIN IN THE BUTTOCK AND FOR IT TO HEAL, IT HAS TO BE REQUESTED. THE KING THOUGHT AND LOOKED AT THE

AWO ASKING WHAT HE NEEDED FOR IT AND THE AWO INDICATED: EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT, THE KING IT
HE DID AND WAS CURED AND IN GRATITUDE HE NAMED AWO OF THE KINGDOM. THEY BATHED THE KING WITH EWE FA AND

THEY PUT IÑAFA DUE TO A ODDUN THAT THE AWO SAW TO THE KING AND THAT SAID THAT HE WAS AT
POINT OF LOSING THE LERI. THIS IS HOW THE AWOSES MEETING CAME TO DO IFA AND THE AWO ATTENDED TO THE
THE SAME. ORUNMILA ORDERED EVERYONE TO TAKE OFF THEIR SHIRT AND UPON TAKING IT OFF THEY ALL HAD THEIR

IÑAFA, LESS OGBE YONO, THE PROUD AWO, FOR WHICH HE CUT HIS LERI INSTEAD OF THE KING'S.
TAKING OFF THE SHIRTS IS GIVING EYERBALE TO THE IÑAFAS. WITH THIS, PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE
GIFTS.
CAIMAN AND OLOKUN
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PATAKIN: FIRST OF ALL, OLOKUN IS TAKEN AND NEXT TO IT, THE SIGN OF OGBE YONO IS PLACED.
ON TOP OF THIS, A BOWL IS PLACED WITH 9 PIECES OF OBI AND A SMALL TRAY ON TOP, A LITTLE PLATTER
UNTING OF EPO, THEN THE OGBE YONO IS PRAYED AND A ADIE JABADA IS TAKEN, IT IS CUT UP ALIVE AND
IT IS PLACED IN THE JICARA, COVERED WITH EKU, AYA, AWADO, INDIGO AND MANGO LEAVES AND TAKEN TO THE
BANK OF THE RIVER PRAYING: “IYA OGBI MODOBI, WATER, OGNI LARI AKORI EDA LATE ANI NO OGNI LO TI
ASHE. THEN IT IS PLACED IN A JAR OVER THE 16 MEYIS AND OGBE YONO, WATER IS ADDED.
SEA AND RIVER, OÑI, EKU, EPO, INDIGO, OBI, ARID EDUN, CANE MELADO, WHITE BLEO, ATIPONLA, AGUO
DUNDUN AND CANUTILLO. AROUND IT ARE PLACED THE THINGS OF WATER, A TURTLE EGG, A REAL
OF SILVER, EVERYTHING IS GETTING CLEANED AND IS BEING PLACED IN THE JAR, THE LAST ONE IS THE INTERESTED PARTY WHO

PUT THE TURTLE EGG AND THE SILVER REAL. THEN A 7 LINE ALTERNATING OSUN IS PUT ON:
BLUE, RED, BLUE, RED OR BLUE, RED, BLUE WHERE THE WATER JAR IS PLACED, MARKED ON THE SIDE
THE 16 MEJIS AND OLOKUN IS PLACED THEN ONE TAKES THE OGNI (CAIMAN) AND KILLS SINGING: 'OGNI'
DELE OLEKUN DELE TITI OFIDI OGNI OLEKUN DELE BATISHE OGNI BATISHE OLEKUN BATISHE”. SE ECHA
THE EYERBALE IN THE TWO JARS AND THEN THE AKUKO, EKU, EGG AND EYELE IS KILLED. THE JAR OF
WATER IS WRAPPED IN A BLUE CLOTH WITH THE BODY OF THE ANIMAL WITHOUT LEGS, NOR THE HEAD AND IS
TAKE TO THE SEA. THE LEGS AND THE OGNI LERI ARE TREATED WITH TANNIN AND PLACED IN A JAR WITH
OBI ODDUN, ORIDAN, EKU, EYA, EPO, YERBA CAIMAN AND IYEFA OF OGBE YONO. THIS JAR IS SEALED AND
LIVE BY THE SIDE OF OLOKUN AND EVERY TIME THERE IS A NEW MOON, EFUN IS APPLIED TO HIM.

THE CARPENTER
IN A VILLAGE THERE WAS A CARPENTER WHO, DUE TO THE CURIOSITY OF HIS WORK AND HOW WELL HE
HE DID IT, HE WAS VERY FAMOUS. OBATALA NEEDED TO MAKE A THRONE AND ASKING FOR A
A GOOD CARPENTER ARRIVED AT THIS HOUSE. AFTER AGREEING ON THE WORK AND THE PRICE, OBATALA
I OFFER TO GIVE YOU A GIFT IF AT THE END IT WAS TO YOUR LIKING. A FEW DAYS LATER OBATALA WAS
TO SEE HOW THE WORK WAS GOING, AND HE GOT VERY HAPPY TO SEE THAT IT WAS TURNING OUT LIKE HIM
I wanted, and upon leaving, I told the carpenter, send your apprentice with me to send him a
GIFT. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT OBATALA'S HOUSE, HE HANDED HIM A GOURD OF SARAO OF EKO
FOR HER TO BE TAKEN TO THE CARPENTER, UPON ARRIVING AT THE CARPENTER'S HOUSE, THE APPRENTICE GAVE HER

I DELIVER THE GIFT THAT OBATALA WILL SEND HIM, UPON SEEING THAT HE SAID WITH SCORN: IS THIS
IS THAT WHAT I SEND? THE DISPLEASED TEACHER TOLD HIS ASSISTANT: IF YOU WANT, YOU CAN
TAKE IT; THE BOY TOOK THE SARAO AND UPON REACHING THE BOTTOM HE ENCOUNTERED PEARLS, THE
I WATCH WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING. ANOTHER DAY OBATALA PASSED BY THE CARPENTRY AGAIN AND SEEING THE
The foreman of the work gave the master another gourd of sarat, and he, upon seeing what it was,

SAME AS LAST TIME, HE TOLD THE ASSISTANT AGAIN TO TAKE IT. THE BOY
HE RETURNED TO TAKE THE CONTENT AND FOUND PEARLS AT THE BOTTOM AND AGAIN HE STORED THEM. TO THE
A FEW DAYS LATER, OBATALA PASSED BY THE carpentry SHOP AND THE MASTER TOLD HIM THAT THE NEXT DAY HE
HE WOULD SEND THE THRONE, OBATALA UPON SEEING THE QUALITY OF THE WORK SAID: SEND ME THE BOY TO
I SENT YOU A GIFT; SO THE TEACHER, UPON SEEING THE CUP, GAVE IT TO THE BOY AND HE...
TOMO AND ON THIS OCCASION HE FOUND DIAMONDS IN THE BOTTOM AND HE KEPT THEM. THE NEXT DAY
THE MASTER BROUGHT THE WORK TO OBATALA AND HE LIQUIDATED THE AMOUNT OF IT AND THE
CARPENTER SAID TO HIMSELF, I COMPLIED WITH HIM AND HE PAID ME BUT DID NOT GIVE ME THE GIFT THAT HE

PROMETIO. AFTER A SHORT TIME, THE APPRENTICE SETTLED IN ANOTHER TOWN ON HIS OWN AND FOUNDED A
GREAT CARPENTRY WORKSHOP LIKE NONE HAD BEEN IN THE AREA, ALTHOUGH HE KNEW NOTHING OF IT
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MAESTRO. ONE DAY HE MET OBATALA IN THE STREET AND SAID TO HIM: YOU FORGOT THE
GIFT THAT YOU PROMISED ME AND OBATALA SURPRISED RESPONDED: YOU TOOK WHAT I GAVE YOU
DID YOU SEND IT IN THE CUP?, AND THE CARPENTER SAID: YES, I WOULD DRINK IT. OBATALA REALIZING
THAT YOU DECEIVED HIM, HE SAID: YOU DISDAINED THE FORTUNE I SENT YOU AND TO WHOM YOU GAVE IT HAS
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT AND CONTINUED ON HIS WAY. THE CARPENTER REALIZED AND SAID TO HIMSELF,
THIS IS THE REASON WHY THE STUDENT SEPARATED FROM ME. THE TEACHER INQUIRED AND ARRIVED AT THE
TOWN WHERE THE BOY HAD SETTLED AND UPON FINDING HIM HE SAID: YOU FOUND
JEWELS IN THE JICARA, THE BOY ANSWERED, I FOUND NOTHING, YOU GAVE THEM TO ME
YOU WERE REIGNING AND IN IT I FOUND MY FORTUNE AND HAPPINESS. A LITTLE LATER THIS CARPENTER WHO
IT WAS NONE OTHER THAN OGBE YONO, HE HAD TO WORK AS AN OPERATOR IN HIS FORMER WORKSHOP
APPRENTICE, THUS BECOMING A SLAVE TO HIS SLAVES AND AS GREATER PUNISHMENT HE FELL ILL WITH
STOMACH AND TO BE ABLE TO HEAL HE HAD TO TAKE SARAO OF IKO AND RUB IT ON HIS BELLY.
IN THIS ODUN IT SAYS THAT THE PERSON HAS AN ALTAR TO A SAINT IN THEIR HOUSE THAT EVERYONE
YEARS IT ILLUMINATES HIM AND NOW IT IS NEGLECTED BECAUSE YOU HAVE REMOVED IT. YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT.

ATTENTION LIKE BEFORE, ADD SOME NEW THINGS THAT IT DID NOT HAVE AND DO THINGS IF IT
ADVERTISING. ACCORDING TO HOW IT IS PUTTING OR DOING THINGS, IT HAS TO KEEP ASKING BECAUSE
OBATALA AND WHAT HE WANTS AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU A GREAT FORTUNE THE DAY YOU LEAST EXPECT IT
THINK.
Verses
HERO, SON OF THE KING UNASSUMING FOUGHT WITH THIS ONE AND CUT OFF HIS PENIS, SHORTLY AFTER WHEN
HERO WAS PROCLAIMED KING MADE OF UNASSUMING FROM THE ESTATE, THIS HAD BEEN AFRAID, THE SENDING TO
A woman with a vagina tied for him, both lived in the forest working and
EATING IN THE FIELD. A DAY OF WHITENESS PEPE'S HANDS SOUNDED (4) WHEN THEY
THEY LOOKED BACK. THEY SAW THE GOD OF WHITENESS, THEY KEPT THEIR MOUTHS SHUT
CLOSED UNTIL THEY FINISHED GRINDING ALL THE YAM, WHEN THEY FINISHED THEY OFFERED
TO THE GOD OF WHITENESS WHO ATE UNTIL HE WAS SATISFIED. WHEN HE FINISHED, HE ASKED.
WHAT WERE THEY DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD. UNASSUMING EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT IN A FIGHT HE HAD
SUSTAINED WITH HIS YOUNG BROTHER PLAGUE HAD SENT HIM TO THE FOREST AND THEN HAD SENT
TO THE WOMAN WITH THE TIED VAGINA. THE GOD OF WHITENESS TOLD HER TO CONTINUE HER JOURNEY AND
WHILE THEY WILL LOOK FOR A SNAIL EACH ONE AND THAT THEY WILL KEEP A SNAIL
EACH ONE UNTIL HE RETURNS. WHEN THE GOD OF WHITENESS RETURNED, HE TOOK ONE OF
THE SNAILS, HE TOLD THEM TO STRIP OFF THEIR CLOTHES AND OPEN THEIR LEGS. WHEN
THE MAN HAD DONE THIS THE GOD OF WHITENESS TOOK THE SHELL AND THIS CAME OUT OF THE
CONCH AND ENTERED INTO THE SIDES OF THE MAN. HE TOLD THEM TO GO TO SLEEP TOGETHER LIKE
THEY HAD DONE IT UNTIL THEN, HE DID THE SAME OPERATION WITH THE WOMAN AND HER PUSSY;
WHEN NIGHT FELL AND THEY SLEPT, THE SNAIL CAME OUT FROM THE SIDES OF THE MAN AND
ENTERED THE WOMB AND STARTED TO SWELL; SHE WAS PREGNANT. THE PEOPLE WHO
THEY SAW THEY WENT WHERE THE KING AND TOLD HIM THAT THE WOMAN WAS PREGNANT BUT HE THE
SHE MISTOOK, WHEN SHE GAVE BIRTH TO HER SON, THEY WENT AND TOLD THE KING BUT HE DID NOT
THEY BELIEVED. WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT FOR THE SECOND TIME, THE NEIGHBORS TOLD HER AGAIN
THE SAME TO THE KING, BUT THIS ONE ANSWERED THAT IF THIS EVER HAPPENED, THEY SHOULD
DRAG HIM FROM THE SECTION (6) WHERE HE WAS AND CUT OFF HIS HEAD. THE PEOPLE
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FROM THE VILLAGE THEY SENT MESSAGES TO UNASSUMING AND HIS WIFE TO RETURN. WHEN
THEY ARRIVED AT THE VILLAGE, IT GATHERED AND DISMISSED THE KING. WHEN HERO SAW THE WOMAN THAT WAS GOING TO

ORINAR, HE SAW THAT SHE WAS PREGNANT. HE TRIED TO RUN INSIDE THE HOUSE, BUT HE
THE PEOPLE OF HIS CITY PUSHED HIM TO THE GROUND AND CUT OFF HIS HEAD, WHAT WE HEARD WAS THE
SOUND OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO IT QUIETLY. WE HAVE TAKEN DOWN THE ONE WHO DID THE THINGS
BAD FOR UNASSUMING (7). ORUNMILA SAYS THAT THE ONE WHO DOES THINGS WHEN HE GIVES TO SOMEONE
YOUR DESTINY (8) IFA SAYS THAT WE SHOULD NOT FIGHT, A MAN MUST FIGHT, HE WILL HAVE TO SACRIFICE
SO THAT HIS RELATIVES DO NOT HARM HIM DURING HIS FIGHT, AND SOMEONE'S PENIS IS
HIDING THE DATE FOR THE (10) AND HE IS UPSET BECAUSE HE CANNOT HAVE CHILDREN. HE MUST
MAKE A SACRIFICE TO A DEITY SO THAT IT MAY GIVE YOU CHILDREN, THE SACRIFICE IS A GOAT AND 32
SHELLS FOR WOMEN, (1) AWRE, IS AN ABBREVIATION OF AURETE THIS MEANS A MAN WHO
IT MAKES OR GOES TO WORK CALMLY WITHOUT BOASTING ABOUT WHAT IT DOES, BUT
ALTHOUGH HE DOES IT WELL, OTHERS MAY SAY THAT HE IS A LAZY PERSON, A CRAZY PERSON, BUT
HE IS REALLY WISER AND MORE COMPETENT THAN ALL OF THEM. NOTE THE FORM OF THIS VERSE
IT IS USUAL, AS IT BEGINS BY STATING THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS AND THERE IS NO DIALOGUE WITH
ORUNMILA IN PRESENT OF DIVINATION (2) A WOMAN DESCRIBED AS CAPABLE OF RAISING BUT
NOT FOR HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONS. (3) THE MEANING ITANJE CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY IT
INFORMANT, BUT IN ANOTHER VERSE IS THAT NAME FROM OBATALA OSHORE IGBO
PROCEDE ALSO IDENTIFIED ONLY AS ORISHA THAT THESE DEITIES ORISHANLA,
OBATALA FOR GOD OF WHITENESS, THE ONE THAT GIVES SHAPE TO BEINGS WHILE THEY STILL ARE
IN THE WOMB OF THEIR MOTHERS, THE ALBINOS, HUNCHBACKS, LAME, CHILDREN WITH SIX FINGERS, OR
INDIVIDUALS WITH OTHER DEFORMATIONS ARE SACRED TO HIM. THE SNAIL IS A TABOO
MENTIONED HERE. (4) PEPE IS THE SOUND OF HANDS WHEN CLAPPED. (5) THIS IS TABOO OF
ORISHANLA, EAT NAMES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN PREPARED IN SILENCE. (6) HIGH PLATFORM IN THE
WHAT A KING OR CHIEF FEELS. (7) THE IMPLICATION MEANS THAT AN UNASSUMING MAN MIGHT
BEING COMMITTING THE SAME MISTAKE AS THE ONE WHO IS CALLED TO JUDGE HIM BUT HOW HE DOES
THINGS WITHOUT VANITY AND WITHOUT ADVERTISING AND THEY DO NOT KNOW THIS AND DO NOT TRY OR ATTEMPT
INTERFERING. (8) THIS IS A PERSON WHO RECEIVES HELP FROM ORUNMILA WITHOUT KNOWING THAT HE HAS
PAST.
VERSE 9-2
ÑAME PATOLIKI (1), 800 SHELLS, CORN SEEDS, WAS THE ONE WHO LAUNCHED IFA FOR OLUOGODE THE SON
THE EKULEMPO (2) WHO LAUNCHED TO THE FOREIGNER WITHIN NIGER, SON OF WHO USES THE EXTREME
FROM HIS LANCE AS A CRUTCH MORAGGANI GANI THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD COME AND MAKE THE SACRIFICE.
THEY SAY THEIR BODY IS NOT HEALTHY, THEY SAY THIS WILL GIVE THEM HEALTH THIS YEAR. THE
SACRIFICE WAS OF 6 ROOSTERS AND 12,000 SHELLS, OLUOGODE MADE THE SACRIFICE, OLUOGODE ARRIVED
SON OF EKULEMPO OH, WOOD OF RAJA OBA, (4) HIS BODY IS HEALTHY, IFA SAYS SOMEONE MUST
MAKE SACRIFICE, IF YOU WANT YOUR BODY TO BE HEALTHY (4). OBA IS THE SOUND OF THE WOOD WHEN
To recover, this means that this person will get better in health at the same speed.
WHAT A WOODEN KING. (1) INFORMANTS SUGGEST THAT THIS COULD BE THE NAME OF A TYPE
OF ÑAME. (2) THE INFORMANT CANNOT EXPLAIN OR IDENTIFY OLUOGODE OR EKULEMPO, WITHOUT
EMBARGO THEN WORKS WITH WITCHES FROM BEROMUN AND SOPENA IT IS CLEAR THAT OLUOGODE
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MEANS LORD OF ERUPTIONS AND HE IS THE GOD OF SMALLPOX, WHOSE DEITIES ARE SAID TO BE
EMPE. (3) MORAGGANI GANI DESCRIBE THE CONDITION OF A PERSON WHO USES CRUTCHES.
VERSE 9-3
I AM AROUND THE WORLD, THE FORTUNE TELLER OF EGBA, AND I WALK ALONG THE PATHS UNTIL
LET IT REACH THE DISTANT IJOBU (1), BROAD SWORD WERE THOSE WHO THREW IFA FOR THEM (2).
WHEN THEY CRIED THEY NEEDED MONEY, 4 DOVES, PIECES OF SCAFFOLDING OR CHALK FROM BENIN AND
8,000 shells were the sacrifice and they began to have money. Money will come but
HE HAS TO MAKE THE SACRIFICE. (1) EGBA OR IJOBU ARE YORUBA SUBGROUPS. (2) THIS STORY
IS OMITTED FROM THE YORUBA TEXTS AND THE CHARACTERS ARE IDENTIFIED, WHICH INDICATES THAT
THIS VERSE IS COMPLETE.
THE BIRTH OF OGGUN SHORO SHORO (HERE WAS ELEGBA'S REVENGE ON THE AKUKO)
REZO: BABA OGBE HEAD OF OGUNDA, HEAD OF IKOKO THE SUN HEAD OF AGBADA ALAWO ADIFAFUN THE GROUP OF ONIKOKO,
OWO BONU OMO OGBE YONO OLUO POPO AWANTEFA ODARA IKOKO TOSHE OLOKUN OLORI
BURUNJULOSO HAS ENCOURAGED HIS FRIEND TO STRENGTHEN HIS OWN CONFIDENCE IN THE FACE OF ADENIFA, ELEGBA, KING BAPON

THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE BOYS TO SHOW THEIR STRENGTH.

EBBO: CHICKEN, HEN, MY CHILD, TAKE IT TO THE MARKET, ROOSTER, GAME, YAM, SEED, FRUIT, PERSON, HORN, OIL,
ORI, ITANA, EFUN, AWAN KEKE, MARIWO, GBOGBO ASHE, GBOGBO ILEKE, GBOGBO ERE, GBOGBO
EWEFA, ALL WHITE CLOTHES.
EBBO: CHICKEN, PIGEON, MEAT REPORTS, 5 BUNCHES OF WATER CRESS, GOOD MORNING, OKRA, SHEA BUTTER, OILS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES,
OTI.
NOTE: THE EBBO GOES IN THE BASKET, BUT FIRST IT IS WASHED WITH OMIERO AND GIVEN JIOJIO AND THE
ADIE TO ORUNMILA, A BIRD IS GIVEN TO THE OFFERING AND TO THE OMERO, THE CHICKEN IS GIVEN TO ELEGBA, A BIRD IS ALSO GIVEN

AT THE EBBO AND THE OMIERO, THE PERSON BATHES WITH THE OMIERO WITH EYE, THEN THE IKOKO IS STORED
THE PERSON IN HIS HOUSE. THE REMAINING EWEFA GOES TO THE SEA WITH THE JIOJIO.
PATAKIN: THE AKUKO WAS THE ONE WHO KNEW ALL THE SECRETS AND ELEGBA WHO HAD HAD HATE TOWARDS HIM SINCE THE
Tierra Okana Meyi, he played a bad move on him and tricked him, and the Akuko realized and went.
WHERE OGGUN WHO WAS HIS FRIEND AND HE TOLD HIM: IT IS TRUE, BUT I CANNOT DO ANYTHING FOR YOU,
OLOFIN DECREE YOUR DEATH, AND IT HAS TO BE ME, I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ME, YOUR BEST FRIEND
WHOEVER HAD TO KILL YOU, I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE TO USE OBE FOR YOU, BUT IT'S THE LAW AND NOT
I CAN DISOBEY OLOFIN. THE ONLY THING I CAN DO FOR YOU IS NOT TO CUT YOUR LERI
NOT IN ONE SWEEP, BUT LITTLE BY LITTLE SO THAT YOU DO NOT SUFFER. WHEN OGGUN STARTED TO SING:
OGGUN SHORO SHORO AND ALL THE WITNESSES ANSWERED: OTOYOBA ELEGBA DOKARO. THIS
IT MEANS, LITTLE BY LITTLE I WAS NOT, IT WAS ELEGBA WHO EMBARKED YOU.
THE CHOICE
PATAKIN: ON THIS PATH AWO IKOKO WHO WAS OMO OGBE YONO, LIVED ON THE EARTH AWO BONU, LIVED
COMFORTABLE BECAUSE HE WAS ALWAYS FEEDING OLOKUN; HE BROUGHT HIM THE FOOD
COOKED IN A LARGE IKOKO AND THE CRUDA IN A BASKET AND I WAS SINGING; "OLOKUN AWAN
KAMEMELODO TO THE GOOD CHARACTER OF THE RESIDENTS." THEN Salia OLOKUN AND HE THREW IT AT HIM
BLESSING, BUT IN THAT LAND WHERE THE PEOPLE DEDICATED THEMSELVES TO MAKING CLAY IKOKO, NO
NOBODY WAS DEDICATING TO THE SECRETS OF IFA A LONG TIME AGO AND NOW AWO OMI KOKO IS
I WAS GETTING OLD AND TOLD THE PEOPLE OF OWO BONU THAT TO WORSHIP OLOKUN THERE WAS
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WHAT TO HAVE THE CONSECRATION OF IFA. AWO IKOKO STARTED TO LOOK FOR IT, BUT THE PEOPLE OF THAT
EARTH THEY DID NOT WALK WITH IFA, THEY WERE ONLY THERE TO MANUFACTURE THE IKOKO. I DO NOT FIND ANYONE THAT

He would serve him and with that he set out on the way to Olokun's house to bring him his food.
ON THE WAY HE MET MOLOKUN AND HE SAID TO HIMSELF: THIS ONE WILL HELP ME SO THAT THE
PEOPLE OF THIS LAND THINK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT IFA. THEN HE SAID TO MOLEKUN, I AM GOING TO
TO CONSECRATE IN IFA SO THAT YOU HELP ME KEEP THIS LAND PROSPEROUS LIKE NOW, BUT
WHAT THEY THINK A LITTLE MORE IN IFA. AND HE SAID: OGBE YONO, ONIKOKO AWO TO CONSACRATE HIS
SON OF A BITCH. HE STARTED TO PREPARE EVERYTHING AND WHEN HE WAS GOING TO OLEYA TO BUY CERTAIN THINGS

FOOD ITEMS, HE ENCOUNTERED ELEGBA AND OLUO-POPO WHO EACH CARRIED 2 IKOKO
BIG NEWS AND OLUO-POPO A VERY BIG AWAN AND ALL ERE, THEY GAVE HIM
MOFORIBALE A AWO ONIKOKO Y THEY TOLD HIM: WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU TO GIVE YOU THIS THAT MAKES YOU
LACK, SO THAT YOU CONSECRATE OMOLOKUN. THEN OLUO-POPO GAVE THE AWAN AND SAID;
PUT HERE EVERYTHING YOU NEED, BUT FIRST YOU HAVE TO CONSECRATE THEM, TAKE GBOGBO
WASH THE SHEEP INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, GIVE THIS SHEEP ON THE OUTSIDE, GIVING IT
JIOJIO MATANDOLO AGAINST THE AWAN AND YOU GIVE EYE FROM OUTSIDE AND YOU SAY: "OMO ADIE OMO ENIFA"

ORUN AWAN. EL JIOJIO LO BOTAS EN LA ESQUINA. ENTONCES SE INCO DELANTE DE ELEGBA Y ESTE LE
GAVE THE TWO IKOKO AND SAID TO HIM, THIS IS ONE FROM YOUR HEAD AND THE OTHER FROM THE LERI OF THE AWO
OMOLOKUN. YOUR SON IS GOING TO BE BORN AND HE GAVE THEM WHILE PRAYING: "OZAIN AWO ONIKOKO ABBA

ALASHENIFA. AND HE SAID TO HIM: ON EARTH YOU MAKE THE OMIERO AND WHEN YOU PREPARE IT YOU GIVE IT AN EYELE AND
THE CANTAS: "OYEKU MI YENKURE OYEKU MI YENKURE IBO EYELE OZAIN IBBO". AND YOU LIGHT ITANA A
THE OTHER IKOKO AND YOU PUT IT INSIDE THE AWAN THAT OLUO-POPO GAVE ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE,

WHEN YOU FINISH SETTING IT UP, COVER IT WITH ASHO FUNFUN AND SAY: "AKURE IFA KORI KOKUN"
AWAN TENIFA". THEN EVERYTHING WAS READY TO CONSECRATE OMOLOKUN AND THEY TOOK OUT
THE CLOUDS OUTSIDE AND THEY STARTED SINGING: "CLOUD CLOUD KOSHEWA SKY CLOUD ONIKOKO ENIFA"
ALAWAO AWAN. WHERE ELEGBA, OLUO-POPO, AWO ONIKOKO AND ALL THE AWO THAT HAD ARRIVED
THEY STARTED TO SING: "AWAN AWAN OMONIFA UMBO AWAN IFA". AND THEY TOOK HIM TO BODUN, WHERE
THEY CONSECRATED OMOLOKUN AND SACRED THIS SIGN, ELEGBA TOLD HIM: KEEP THIS IKOKO OF THE AWAN
FOR THE OTHER SECRET THAT YOU LACK IN THIS LAND, SO THAT EVERYTHING GOES WELL FOR YOU. THEN
MANY PEOPLE FROM THE LAND CAME TO AWO BONU SO THAT AWO NIKOKO AND OMOLOKUN
THEY WILL CONSACRATE HIM IN IFA. OLOKUN FELT HAPPY AND SENT MANY RICHES TO AWO
NIKOKO AND HIS SON OMOLOKUN, WHO WAS AWO OGBE YONO IFA BONU, SO THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS LIVE WELL
AND THE PEOPLE OF THAT LAND WILL THINK MORE OF IFA AND WILL TAKE THE IKOKO FOR THINGS
SACRED, BECAUSE THEY WERE THE HEADS OF THOSE LANDS OF AWO BONU OR IFA BONU, FROM
THEN OGBE YONO IS ONIKOKO. NOTE: THE COOKING POT OF ATEFAR MUST ALWAYS BE NEW, FOR
REPRESENTS THE HEAD OF THE GODFATHER AND THE GODSON. THE POT THAT IS GIVEN TO THE GODSON IS
THE ONE FROM THE BASKET, THAT THIS WILL COLLECT TO WORK UNTIL IT TAKES AKUANARDO, FOR
THIS IS THE ONE THAT BREAKS IN THE KUTO.

PATIENCE BECOMES KING

PATKIN: AJA WAS A BEAUTIFUL SNAKE THAT PERFORMED ALL KINDS OF MIRACLES, SHE TURNED INTO
WOMAN AND SHE MARRIED VODUN ANJUAKA, ONE DAY HE HAD TO BE ABSENT AND ASKED THE WOMAN
WHAT SHE WOULD DO WITH THE FOOD; WHEN SHE WAS LEFT ALONE SHE GRABBED THE STICK, THE HAT AND HER THINGS AND

HE SAID, WHAT YOU LEFT ME I HAD TO TAKE TO MAKE THE FIRE TO COOK FOR YOU.
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CONVINCED ANJUAKA THAT HE WOULD NEVER RECOVER HIS GARMENTS REJECTS HIS WIFE. SHE
MARCH AND MEETS KOMOSO AND THEY START LIVING TOGETHER, AFTER A SHORT TIME WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM
SAME AS WITH ANJUAKA AND KOMOSO THE BOOT. IFA WAS PREPARING THE ANNUAL CEREMONIES,
IT WAS RECORDED WHEN THIS SIGN OF OGBE YONO CAME TO HIM, WHERE ELEGBA ANNOUNCES: THIS YEAR
IT WILL BE GOOD NOT FOR EVERYONE. YOU WILL GET MARRIED, BUT TO KEEP YOUR WIFE YOU WILL HAVE TO
TO ARM YOURSELF WITH MUCH PATIENCE. ON THE 32ND DAY A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ENTERS THE HOUSE, VERY COQUETTE, HE
THE QUESTION WHAT DO YOU COME FOR? TO BE YOUR WOMAN, SHE SAYS, AND SO THEY GOT MARRIED. IFA NEVER HAD
CASADO AND AJA WAS HIS FIRST WOMAN, ONE DAY SHE ASKED HIM FOR FOOD AS HE WOULD GO OUT, SHE TAKES THE
SHE TAKES HER HUSBAND, CUTS HIM INTO PIECES, AND WITH THEM MAKES THE FIRE TO COOK, IFA
HE RETURNED, ATE AND SAID NOTHING. IFA LEFT AGAIN, SHE TOOK ALL HER BELONGINGS AND THEM
I QUEMO TO MAKE FIRE, I KILL ALL ANIMALS AND COOK THEM. AT 15 DAYS OF THE
CEREMONY SHE TOLD IFA: EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT, HOW WILL YOU DO IT, HE TOLD HER, DON'T WORRY. IFA
I ORDERED TO CARVE A NEW BOARD AND BOUGHT THE ANIMALS AGAIN, THEN AHA THOUGHT: HIM
I HAVE DONE A LOT OF DAMAGE TO THIS MAN, AND HE DOES ME GOOD, THEN SHE TOLD HIM, I AM GOING TO

DEFECATE, TAKE ME TO YOUR FATHER'S GRAVE; SHE THERE DEFECATED MUCH GOLD, HE LIKE THE OTHERS
HUSBANDS DO NOT DEFECATE. EIGHT DAYS LATER SHE SAID AGAIN, I AM GOING TO DEFECATE, HE TOLD HER ALREADY

YOU KNOW THE WAY, YES SHE SAID, BUT THIS TIME IT WILL BE IN YOUR MOTHER'S GRAVE. SHE WAS AND IS
TIME DEFECTS SILVER AND GEMS. ONE NIGHT BEING THE TWO ALONE AND CONVERSING
SHE TOLD HIM: I HAD TWO HUSBANDS BEFORE YOU, BUT BECAUSE OF MY MALICE THEY LEFT ME, YOU LOVE ME
BOARD AND OTHER BELONGINGS, KILL YOUR ANIMALS, YOU DID NOT FIGHT, THAT IS WHY I DEFECATE ON
THE TOMB OF YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, I WILL GIVE YOU AS A GIFT SON THAT I HAVE IN MY WOMB. GO TO
THE TOMBS AND COLLECT WHAT I LEFT THERE FOR YOU, THAT BELONGS TO YOU. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD NAMED,

AMOSUN, KAKA, ALUGBAKOBO, FOR THIS REASON IN THIS SIGN THE WEALTH OF IFA IS GIVEN BY HIS WIFE. OGBE

YONO HAS TO DO HIS WORK CALMLY WITHOUT BOASTING ABOUT WHAT

HE DOES IT BECAUSE HE ALWAYS DOES IT WELL, OTHERS CAN SAY THAT HE IS LAZY, A MADMAN, BUT
HE IS REALLY A WISE PERSON AND MORE COMPETENT THAN OTHERS, BUT ALL OF THIS HE HAS TO
DO QUIETLY SO THAT ENEMIES DO NOT INTERFERE. GETS SICK AND HEALS QUICKLY,
YOU HAVE TO MAKE EBBO WITH AKUKO AND OPOLOPO OWO. THE AKUKO ARE ONE TO ELEGBA, ONE TO OGGUN
Y 4 A SHANGO.
WHEN THEY DID NOT PAY ORUNMILA
PATAKIN: ORUNMILA HAD A FOOD STAND IN THE SQUARE, AND EVERYONE WHO BOUGHT FROM HIM DID NOT
PAGABA. A DISTURBING DAY HE WENT TO COLLECT FROM ALL HIS CLIENTS ARMED WITH A MACHETE; BUT
WITH VIOLENCE HE COULD NOT CHARGE ANYONE. LATER HE CONSULTED THE ANGEL OF HIS GUARDIAN, HE DID
EBBO AND HE WENT PEACEFULLY TO THE SQUARE, SEEING THAT THERE WAS GREAT SCARCITY OF MERCHANDISE AND

THAT ONLY HE HAD IT. BUT PEOPLE DID NOT DARE TO GO TO HIM, BECAUSE THEY OWED HIM AND FEARED HIM.
ORUNMILA. THEN THEY DECIDED TO GO ONE BY ONE, STARTING BY PAYING HIM WHAT THEY OWED,
CHICKENING IT AND THEN SUPPLYING THEM WITH WHAT THEY NEEDED.
WHEN THE DEAD WERE NOT BURIED
PATTERN: IN THE LAND OF ARARA THERE WAS A GREAT MORTALITY AND THE TRIBE WAS BEING DECIMATED.
ORUNMILA WENT TO THAT PLACE, AND THE KING TOLD HIM WHAT WAS HAPPENING. ORUNMILA MADE OSODE AND SAW HIM
THIS IFA, AND I SEND TO MAKE EBBO WITH AKUKO, PICK, SPADE, SHOVEL, A SACK OF EFUN, AND THAT
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AFTER FINISHING THE EBBO, WITH THOSE TOOLS I WILL DIG A BIG TRENCH AND
BURIED THERE ALL THE DEAD (BECAUSE THE DEAD WERE NOT BURIED THERE) AND
THEN I ORDERED THAT ALL THE HOUSES BE PAINTED WITH THE EFUN. ONCE THIS OPERATION IS COMPLETED
GREAT RAINS FELL, AND HE HAD RECOMMENDED THAT NOBODY GET WET. AND SO
THE EPIDEMIC DISAPPEARED FROM THAT PLACE. AND WITH SUCH VIRTUE THE MACAW WILL WARN ALL ITS
WORKS AT THE FOOT OF ORUNMILA.

FOR THE HEAT HE TOOK HIS LIFE

PATAKIN: OLOGUIFUN HAD A GIRLFRIEND AND ORUNMILA TOLD HIM TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO HAVE A PROBLEM
A SHAME, AND HE TOLD HIM THAT COULD NOT HAPPEN. OLOGUIFUN WENT TO HIS GIRLFRIEND'S HOUSE, HE
HE TOOK OFF THE COAT HANGING IT BEHIND THE DOOR AND STARTED TO CHAT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, AT THAT MOMENT

A hen came and got into the bag without anyone seeing her. The owner of the hen
I STARTED LOOKING FOR HER AND I COULDN'T FIND HER ANYWHERE, I ASKED AND NO ONE GAVE A REASON. AT
THE PRINCE LEFT TO GET A SACK AND THE ADIE SHOUTED AND THE OWNER ANGRILY ACCUSED HIM AS
THIEF AND OUT OF EMBARRASSMENT HE TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

THE LUCK OF OSHUN

PATTERN: WHEN OSHUN WENT TO ORUNMILA'S HOUSE TO REGISTER, ORUNMILA GAVE HER OSODE
SEEING THIS IFA AND MARKING IT WITH: FIVE AKUKO, ADIE, PUMPKIN AND OTHER INGREDIENTS AND
IN ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT IF SHE MOVED, A AKUKO. THAT'S WHERE LUCK CAME TO HER. AND
ORUNMILA MARRIED OSHUN.
THE SMALLEST ONE WAS THE ONE WHO GUESSED

PATAKIN: OLOFIN SENT MAN TO FIND THREE BABALAWOS TO MAKE A REGISTRY FOR HIM. THE TWO
Elders said there was no news, Olofin insisted to the youngest to speak. The
THE OLDER ONES CORRECTED WHAT WAS SAID AND SAID THAT THE YOUNGEST DID NOT KNOW. THEN THE YOUNGEST
HE SAID: THERE IS NEWS, IT IS A BOY WHO CAN DIE. THE ADULTS MOCKED HIM. AND HE THE ELEÑI (SO
IT WAS CALLED THE ONE WHO TOLD THE TRUTH) THE FIRST THE SOLE OF THE FEET, THE SECOND THE NAPE AND
THE THIRD THE PALM OF THE HANDS. THREE DAYS LATER THE CHILD DIED, AND WITHOUT LETTING THE
Babalawos superiors of the truth of novelty, Olofin invited them for a fufu meal
AND BROTH. THIS DISH HE PUT IN THREE CUPS, IN ONE HE PUT THE HEAD, IN ANOTHER HE PUT THE
HANDS AND IN THE OTHER HE PLACED THE FEET, GARMENTS, CORALS AND MONEY; FOR OLOFIN WANTED TO KNOW
WHICH OF THE THREE WAS GUESSING. THE OLDER ONES STARTED TO EAT, AND THE YOUNGEST CHOSE SAID: WHAT
FOR EATING I HAD TO DO IT ALONE AND IN A CORNER. THAT IS FOR AN ACTOR AND THE OTHERS DO IT
THEY CRITICIZED HIM FOR BEING A LIAR. HE WAS TAKEN TO A CORNER AND WHEN HE TOOK THE FIRST BITE, HE CAME

EAGLE AND TOOK IT AWAY, AND INSTEAD OF FINDING FOOD, FOUND WEALTH. HE KEPT IT ALL
IN THE POCKETS AND THE OTHERS FOR LIARS ATE DEAD.
WHEN THEY APPOINTED A FOREIGNER AS GOVERNOR
EBBO: CHICKEN, ADIE ASADA, SOWING INSTRUMENTS, 3 BUNCHES OF WATERcRESS, EKU, EYA, AWADO,
THE SOUND OF MONEY.

PATAKIN: ONCE A FOREIGNER APPEARED IN THE CITY, HE ASKED FOR HOSPITALITY AND THEY GAVE IT TO HIM.
THE FEW DAYS HE ASKED FOR AGRICULTURAL WORK, AND THEY SENT HIM TO A HILL, AND HE HAD THE LUCK THAT
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THIS YEAR THERE WILL BE MUCH DEW AND THEIR CROPS WERE THE BEST. THE FOLLOWING YEAR IT
THEY TOOK HIM OUT AND SENT HIM TO A LOW PLACE, AND IT HAPPENED THAT THAT YEAR IT RAINED
A LOT AND IT HURT THE UPPER PART, IMPROVING THE LOWER PART. IN THE THIRD YEAR THEY SENT HIM
A mountain with the intention that Oggun would kill him; but as the foreigner did
UNDERSTOOD, WENT TO THE HOUSE OF ORUNMILA WHO DID OSODE AND SAW THIS IFA, MARKED EBBO, AND
HE SAID: WHERE HE WOULD CARRY THE EBBO. THE FOREIGNER DID IT AND WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE
MONTE. OGGUN SE APARECIO PARA MATARLO; PERO EL EXTRANJERO LE DIO DE COMER, Y
OGGUN TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS NOT AS BAD AS THEY HAD SAID, THAT HE DESERVED TO BE REWARDED.
Oggun told the foreigner that he had been sent to the mountain to be killed and he
I AFFIRM: I WILL MAKE YOU KING. OGGUN WENT TO THE CITY AND STARTED KILLING PEOPLE TO THE RIGHT
AND LEFT, UNTIL THE PEOPLE WENT TO SEE WHAT OGGUN WANTED. AND HE TOLD THEM: THAT HE
I WANTED THEM TO NAME THE FOREIGNER GOVERNOR OF THE CITY FROM THAT MOMENT
I WAS IN THE MOUNTAIN.