1208 Otura Ofun
1208 Otura Ofun
OTURA FUN
OTURA ADAKOY
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REZO:OTURA IS A CREATION CREATED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO FIND THE TITLE OF THE SUN AND TO SPEAK IN A TRUTHFUL WAY.
ON EARTH EÑI DILOGUN, LIVED IYA YEYEKUN, WHO POSSESSED GREAT POWER OVER HER CHILDREN,
WHAT ALSO WERE OF OLOKUN AND HE HAD THEM ENSLAVED DESPITE THE FACT THAT ALL HIS CHILDREN
THEY WERE INTELLIGENT AND VERY STRONG-WILLED. SHE HAD SWORN THEM TO A GREAT SECRET.
FROM ORAN AND EVERY 3 MONTHS I WOULD TAKE IT BEFORE THE SECRET POWER AND I WOULD DO MISI MISI AND GIVE IT 3
EYELE CALLED ORUN SINGING:
THE SUN RISES TODAY THE SUN WILL NOT SET THE SUN DANCE DANCE WITH ME WE ARE SUN.
ORUN SE PONIA VERY HAPPY, BUT EVERY TIME THEY DID THIS, OLOKUN GOT ANGRY.
One day when they were holding this ceremony, Ozain was in a cave.
OF CRAB, WHICH WAS CLOSE TO THE SECRET OF IYA YEYEKUN AND WHEN THEY BEGAN TO
SINGING, HE ANSWERED THEM:
Good fortune good fortune brings good luck to Orunmila today, the spirit of the sea, the owner of the earth, and we are here.
OLOKUN.
WHEN OZAIN FINISHED SINGING, HE LIGHTED A LAMP WITH DIFFERENT IGUI AND EPO AND WHEN
YES, YEYEKUN OYO THAT WHICH WAS SO STRONG GOT SCARED ALONG WITH HIS CHILDREN AND LEFT
SECRET.
OLOKUN WAS ALREADY GETTING TIRED OF CALLING IYA YEYEKUN'S ATTENTION ABOUT WHAT
She was having her children, but she was ignoring him. One day Iku went out on the road with her
AGOGO SINGING:
The power of the gods is within the earth, the ocean is here, the strength of the sun illuminates in the heavens.
THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT.
OZAIN SALLY AND ASKED IKU, ARE YOU CALLING ME OR ORUN, IKU ANSWERED HIM, YES TO YOU,
SO THAT YOU GO TO SEE OLOKUN AND TELL HIM TO GO SEE ORUNMILA. OLOKUN WENT TO THE HOUSE OF
ORUNMILA, WHO GAVE HIM OSODE AND SAW THIS IFA AND TOLD HIM: YOU HAVE TO MAKE EBBO AND TAKE IT TO HIM
AT THE FEET OF THIS OZAIN, FOR ALL THE BAD TO END. YOU ALSO HAVE TO DO IFA TO YOUR
ELDEST SON, BUT FIRST WE HAVE TO SWEAR HIM IN OZAIN. WHEN OLOKUN RETURNED FROM THE HOUSE OF
ORUNMILA TOLD OZAIN EVERYTHING ORUNMILA HAD SAID TO HIM. OZAIN ANSWERED HIM, WELL
RETURN TO ORUNMILA'S HOUSE SO THAT HE CAN DO THE EBBO FOR YOU AND AFTERWARD, BRING IT TO ME, YOU HAVE
TO TAKE OUT MANY CRABS FROM THE SEA, TO PUT THEM IN THE CAVES THAT ARE BEHIND THE
SECRET OF IYA YEYEKUN. THIS IS HOW OLOKUN DID IT AND WHEN IYA YEYEKUN WITH HER CHILDREN DID
THE USUAL CEREMONY BEFORE HIS SECRET, OZAIN PUT GUNPOWDER IN THE BACK PART
FROM THE CAVE OF CRABS AND THEY ALL CAME OUT AND ENTERED THE ROOM OF THE SECRET OF
YES, Yeyekun was frightened when he saw that and left in the company of his children. Ozain became
VERY HAPPY AND HE TOOK 3 EYELE AND GAVE THEM TO THE SECRET AND STARTED SINGING:
Sarayeye Eggun Belekun on the way Sarayeye Eggun Belekun on the way.
YES SHE TURNED INTO A GHOST AND FLED FROM THOSE PLACES. OLOKUN AND
OZAIN THEY FOLLOWED HER AND WHEN THEY CAUGHT UP WITH HER, SHE KNELT BEFORE OZAIN AND
OLOKUN, THEY ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS AND GAVE THEM THEIR CHILDREN. OZAIN Swore to the children of OLOKUN and gave them
GREAT GOD. I REMOVED THE BAD TEMPER THEY HAD AND SENT THEM TO DO IFA.
2.- THE DISEASE WAS BORN.
REZO: ADAKOY EPO OBAYENI OGUN OBAYENI IKU LOBABOÑI AND EYE EYE MEAT OGGUN MEGUA AGADA
UERY IKU OYABA TO ORUNMILA BARABALEYE IBIFA YOAGO OBARELENI OLOFIN ORUMILA LORUBO
OGGUN OGALAYERENI EBO FATHER OF OLOFIN KULE OGGUN FATHER OF IFÁ ORUMILA ORUBO OGGUN MY MOTHER
THE EASY METHOD TO ENHANCE YOUR MOTHER'S BEAUTY IS BY GIVING HER A SMILE.
EBBO:3 KIDS, 3 FISH, 3 ROLLS OF COTTON, 3 PASHANES, 3 LIMA BEANS, 3 MALAGUIDI, 3 PIECES WERE BAD, 3
EKO, YARAKO, 3 AKOFA, EVERYONE, A LOT OF MONEY.
PATAKIN:
IN THE LAND OF ADAKOY EPO, LIVED OGGUN, WHO WAS A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF IKU, SO MUCH SO THAT THEY
THEY WENT UP AND DOWN TOGETHER. IN THAT LAND LIVED A SISTER OF YEWA WHO
SHE WAS MY MOTHER (WOMAN WITCH). SHE LIVED AT THE BACK OF YEWA'S HOUSE AND AT THE SAME TIME WAS
VERY FRIEND OF OGGUN AND OF IKU. SHE WAS CALLED IYAMI OSHOROUNGA, SHE WAS THE ONE WHO
HE WAS IN CHARGE OF BRINGING FOOD TO YEWA'S HOUSE. ORUNMILA HAD WARNED HIM
OGGUN WHO REIGNED IN THAT LAND OF TRAGEDY AND COULD NOT DRINK BEVERAGES
ALCOHOLIC, FOR IT COULD BE LOST.
IYAMI OSHOROUNGA had her secret buried in ONIKA, next to the house of OLOKUN.
THAT WAS HER BROTHER AND SHE TRANSFORMS INTO EIYE ORU EVERY NIGHT IN THE ILE OF YEWA
(NIGHT BIRD) AND SHE SET OUT ON HER WAY TO OLOKUN'S HOUSE SINGING:
“OSHOROUNGA EIYE ABAKUE OLUGBAGO OLOKUN OYI KUTU KUTU ASHO AGO ABOÑU”.
THEN ALL THE WOMEN WHO WERE PREGNANT ABORTED THEIR CHILDREN AND TOOK THEM HOME.
YEWA AND WITH THIS THE YEWA FAMILY WAS FED.
In that land, there was a boy named Shawere Guegue who was
I was annoyed by this and always reproached Oggun for his friendship with Iku and him.
The boys agreed to make an alibi for Oggun and took him to the house of wine.
PALMA AND THEY GAVE SO MUCH TO OGGUN THAT HE GOT DRUNK AND LEFT THE TAVERN SINGING:
ELECTING A PERSON WHO IS NOT A LIAR IS A WISE DECISION.
THEN IKU CAME AND TRIPPED OVER OGGUN AND SINCE HE WAS DRUNK, HE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HER AND HE
I CUT THE HAND. IKU RAN AWAY, BLEEDING, AND EVERYONE WHO STEPPED ON IT
HE WAS SICK, THEN OGGUN WAS LIKE CRAZY AND WAS SWINGING HIS MACHETES TO THE RIGHT AND TO THE LEFT
LEFT AND THE ENTIRE WORLD OF EARTH ADAKOY WAS SICK AND TERRIFIED BY OGGUN
AND THEN SHAWERE WENT TO ORUNMILA'S HOUSE AND SAW THIS ODDUN AND TOLD HIM THAT
SO THAT NOBODY WILL GET SICK, THAT HE TOOK EPO AND HE AND EVERYONE ATE WITH OMI AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS
They were freeing themselves, they went to look for Iyami Shorounga and they were singing Ogun.
The time has come for your victory, let us celebrate the triumph.
When she heard the singing, she showed up and they told her everything, and she went with them.
SEARCH FOR OGGUN AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE LAND ADAKOY, OGGUN WAS ACTING CRAZY GIVING
Machete blows and she approached Ogun and sang to him:
FATHER YOU ARE THE MEDICINE YOU ARE THE MEDICINE YOU ARE THE MEDICINE YOU ARE THE MEDICINE.
WHERE OGGUN WENT TO CALM DOWN AND IYAMI OSHOROUNGA TOOK HIM TO THE HOUSE OF ORUNMILA AND OGGUN
He left calm and Iyami Oshorounga took him to the house of Orunmila and Ogun knelt down.
BEFORE OLOFIN AND ORUNMILA, WHERE OLOFIN SAID: FROM TODAY IN THE LAND OF ADAKOY, NO
THE DRINK WILL BE MORE KNOWN AND ALL THOSE WHO STEPPED ON THE BLOOD OF IKU WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD IT
SICKNESS, AND THIS LAND WILL ALWAYS BE GUIDED BY IYA OSHOROUNGA TOGETHER WITH ORUNMILA AND
OLOKUN AND YEWA, THAT LAND HAS IMPROVED, ALTHOUGH IT ALWAYS REMAINED SICK.
3.- ANOTHER VERSION OF THE PREVIOUS PATAKIN.
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PATAKIN:
THERE WAS A AWO WHO NEVER DID EBBO AND WAS ALWAYS EATING FROM OTHERS. ONCE
MAKING OSUN, HE SAW THIS IFA THAT TOLD HIM THAT DEATH WAS COMING TO TAKE HIM, HE MADE EBBO, THE
CUNDIO NEWS AND THE TOWN WAS ASTONISHED. HE WARNED ALL THE KIDS ABOUT THE DAY OF THE
A REQUEST AND EGUN APPEARED AND ARO OGGUN GOT DRUNK BECAUSE THE AWO GAVE HIM
Drink and eat in great abundance, and the person in charge got drunk to kill the awo.
FOR GIVING HIM WITH THE MACHETE AND I CUT OFF A HAND TO THE DISEASE AND THE AWO WAS SAVED.
Death comes with Oggun at the head.
4.- HERE THE SECRET OF MISERY WAS BORN.
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REZO: I AM SORRY THAT YOU ARE IN A BAD SITUATION AND THAT YOU ARE NOT FEELING GOOD.
FEFEKUN MOLALA MAYERI OR ARO INTORI OR OFO INTORI OBO ANUFA INTORI BAYABI AWO OR
OFO MAYABELELE KAURE IFA INTORI BAYEBI AWO OFO MOYABELELE INTORI MAWADABA MAYENI AWO
ARON IFA KAFEREFUN YANZA IFA KAFEREFUN ESHU, AWO INTORI ARON INTORI OFO.
EBBO: REQUEST, JIO JIO, ETU, INLE TOBAKIKAN, 9 OTA, 9 ABERE, 9 OBI, 9 ALARE FUELE, EYELE,
EWEFA, THE IGUI TABAKIKAN, OMIERO, EBOMISI, EKU, EYA, APO, OTI, OÑI, OWO.
NOTE: TO THE EBBO 9 SMALL PIECES OF COCONUT THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN USED, THE ETU IS GIVEN TO THE OMIERO AND
OSIADIE FOR OPARALDO AND GOES INSIDE THE EBBO, 9 AKARA FULE AND 1 EYELE, FOR OGGUN'S UNYEN.
THE DOLL GETS INTO ROTTEN OMIERO FIRST. THREE DAYS AFTER DOING THE EBBO, HE...
ASK OYA AND ELEGBA WHAT EYEBALE WANT.
HERE WAS BORN THE SECRET OF MISERY, AS WELL AS THE UNION OF MISERY AND DISEASE.
PATAKIN:
IN THE LAND TOBAYE LELE INLE LIVED A AWO NAMED MORERE AWO WHO RULED THE
MISERY OF OFO, WHICH HE HAD SPREAD ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT MORERE AWO WAS NEVER
Sick and always asking his sister Yare Yelele to help him and give him more.
POWER. SISTER YELELE LIVED UPSET, UPON SEEING HER SON'S BEHAVIOR, THE DISCONTENT THAT
THIS ALWAYS HAD AND THE BAD THING THAT HE DID. MORERE AWO DID NOT FOLLOW THE ADVICE THAT SHE GAVE HIM.
I paid the least attention to her, on the contrary, I did everything the opposite of what she did.
HE INDICATED, FOR THESE REASONS ÑAÑA YELELE WITHDREW TO LIVE IN HER CORNER OF A BUSH OF
ALAMO WHERE SHE LEANED TO LIVE BECAUSE HER SON WAS SO TIRED. ONE DAY AUNT YELELE,
SHE WOKE UP VERY SCARED AND STARTED TO SING:
"OBANILE LELELE INTORI ARON OBANILE."
HIS VOICE WAS CARRIED AWAY BY THE FORCE OF THE WIND AND WAS HEARD BY OLOFIN BUT THE
SCORN, THEN THE VOICE REACHED THE INLE MODABALA LAND WHERE BAYEBI AWO LIVED,
HEARING THAT VOICE FOR SEVERAL DAYS UNTIL ONE DAY AT 12 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, CALLED 3
SOMETIMES AT THE FOOT OF A COTTONWOOD TREE, ÑAÑA YELELE STARTED TO SING:
UMBO NILE NILE UMBO NILE NILE OBA OLELE INTORI ARON BELE
THIS CEREMONY WAS BEING HELD FOR 7 DAYS AND AT THE END OF THEM OYA WENT TO
VISIT AND I TOLD HER WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND SHE ANSWERED WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT MISERY
NEVER SATISFIED WITH ANYTHING. I WILL HELP YOU.
OYA GAVE ASHE TO INTORI SO THAT HE WOULD HAVE THAT STRENGTH AND GAVE THE BLESSING TO INTORI
ARON. LEFT FOR THE LAND TOBAYE LELE INLE ARRIVING HERE AT MIDNIGHT, AT THE
THE FIRST ONE FOUND LEANING AGAINST THE POPLAR TREE WAS ÑAÑA YELELE, TO WHOM
Sick at the moment, without her being able to move. In the morning when I die Awo.
SHE SAW HER MOTHER'S CONDITION, DID NOT GIVE IT ANY IMPORTANCE AND SHE
SEEING THE WAY OF BEING OF HIS SICK SON TO THE WHOLE EARTH TOBAYE LELE INLE. WHEN
MORERE AWO VIO THAT MISERY AND DISEASE HAD JOINED HIS LAND, HE GOT SCARED
MUCH AND DESPERATE WAS FOR WHERE OLOFIN WAS. THERE ELEGBA RECEIVED HIM AND SAID, YOU DO NOT
YOU CAN SEE OLOFIN, I AM THE ONE WHO HAS TO TELL HIM WHAT YOU THINK AND THAT IS THAT
SICKNESS, THE CURSE, AND MISERY, NO ONE CAN ENDURE IN THE WORLD. YOU HAVEN'T
DEAR BE GOOD, BECAUSE FROM THE BAD GOOD ALSO ARISES AND YOU HAVE THE CURSE OF
DISDAIN.
WHEN I HEARD THIS, I RAN OUT TO LOOK FOR OYA AND HE TOLD ME: YOU HAVE WHAT YOU
YOU DESERVE, HOWEVER, I AM GOING TO HELP YOU AND I AM GOING TO HELP THE WORLD SO THAT THERE IS NO
ILLNESS, MISERY, AND A LITTLE DEATH.
NOTE: HE WHO HAS THIS SIGN, NO MATTER HOW WELL HE IS, ALWAYS HAS SOME MISERY OR
DISEASE.
5.- ON THIS PATH NASAL SECRETIONS WERE BORN.
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REZO: THE DOOR OF THE HOME BECAME WIDE, THE GROUND OPENED, WHILE THE MOTHER OF THE OPULENT CROSS STAYED IN FRONT OF THE LUXURIOUS HOTEL.
RUALAYE ERU is a powerful force that can bring about good fortune and prosperity, while also having the capacity to bring misfortune or bad luck.
Omarile, the child of Feleye, the spirit of the water from the home of Forunkel, let your water flow down into the river where the offering goes.
THE CHILD OF YOUR MOTHER BECOMES A LEADER.
EBBO: ALL OFFERINGS, ALL CLOTHING, GROUP OF PLANTAIN, HEAD, CHICKEN, SNAKE, GROUP, MALAGUIDI, ALL NECKLACES, DRINKING
THIS, THIS IS GOOD.
PATAKIN:
ON THIS PATH OSHANLA LIVED ON EARTH INLE FAKUN AND APPARENTLY ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE
SHE WAS HAPPY, BUT SHE HAD SENT HER CHILDREN TO THE LAND AYEBO EKA ERI AND NOT
I KNEW ABOUT THEM. ON THIS EARTH LIVED NANA, WHO WITH THE SECRETIONS OF HER MUCOUS MEMBRANES,
THERE WAS THAT LAND FULL OF SICK PEOPLE AND EVERYONE WHO LIVED THERE WAS GOING THROUGH
JOBS.
ONE DAY OSHANLA DESPERATELY GAVE EBO OF EKU, EYA, SHAWEREKUEKUE AND ABERIKUNLO
WHILE I SANG:
OLOFIN ABERILE IS THE ONE WHO MADE ABERILO OF YOUR HOUSE; HE IS THE FATHER OF THE GOD OLADE, THE ONE WHO BRINGS SECURITY TO OLKUN.
OLOFIN listened, but since he was angry with her, because OSHUN was always there.
BRAVA, SHE DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO HIM. AFTER 16 DAYS, OSHANLA MADE THE SAME CALL AGAIN, BUT IN
THIS TIME OSHANLA HAD EKU TIED IN HER HAND, OLOFIN HEARD HER AGAIN AND SAID THIS
ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS TO SAVE HIS SON, THEN OLOFIN ANSWERED OSHANLA AND SAID
I see what you ask me for and I am going to please you because I see that you are a good mother.
OLOFIN SENT FOR OLUO POPO AND WHEN HE ARRIVED HE SAID: YOUR IYARE NANA HAS
SICKEN ALL THE CHILDREN OF OSHANLA AND THE WHOLE EARTH FILLED WITH ROT, THIS HE DOES
FOR EVIL AND YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THAT PEOPLE, BUT BEFORE YOU GO,
I am going to give you food and then you have to cover her whole body with it, they were and of
JUJU, WHEN YOU ARRIVE ON EARTH AYEBO EKARERI CLEAN IT ALL WITH YOUR FEATHERS AND WITH
THEY WERE CLEANING NANA'S FACE AND WITH THE ERE I BEG YOU ALL AND TAKE HER OUT OF THAT
LAND SO THAT DISEASE, CURSE, AND LOSS MAY END IN IT. WHEN
OLUO POPO ARRIVED ON EARTH AYEBO EKARERI IT WAS EARLY MORNING AND NANA WAS SLEEPING
THUS HE WAS ABLE TO CARRY OUT ALL OPERATIONS AND AS OLOFIN HAD INDICATED TO HIM,
THEN I WENT TO WHERE NANA ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS, I CLEANED HER AND TOLD HER: FROM THIS MOMENT ON
MAY YOU RECEIVE THE BLESSING OF OLOFIN, YOU HAVE TO HELP ME REMOVE ALL THE BAD THAT YOU HAVE.
MADE IN THIS LAND AND I LOVE YOU FROM OSHANLA. YOU WILL GIVE THEM FREEDOM, SO THAT THEY
RETURN TO YOUR MOTHER'S SIDE, THIS WAY YOU WILL RECEIVE THE BLESSING OF OLOFIN. THIS IS HOW EVERYTHING WAS DONE AND
HAPPINESS RETURNED AGAIN TO THE EARTH INLE FOKUN WHEN ALL THE CHILDREN RETURNED TO IT
OF OIL.
NOTE: WHEN GIVING THE BATH WITH EYERBALE OF EKU, THE FOLLOWING IS SUNG: EQUEPE YERE MAYERE
THE CHILDREN ARE PLAYING.
EBBO: LAND OF THE 4 ENTRIES OF THE POPULATION.
6.- THE RESPONSIBILITY OF OLOFIN.
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REZO:MOBO MABARA ADIFAFUN OBATALA ASHITINRO ODE EYI ELEBIN TORISHE ELEGBA ADIFAFUN
SOKU REKO KIKOYA ERO NANI ELEGBA.
EBBO:4 EYELE, 4 MALAGUIDI, ONE ARM, ONE HEAD, BOGBO TENUYEN, OPOLOPO OWO.
PATAKIN:
THIS WAS THE TIME SPENT ON OLOFIN A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY SINCE IT WAS
BEGINNING OF THE WORLD AND AS IS NATURAL ALL THINGS WERE YET TO BE DONE. THEN
OLOFIN AS OBATALA CAME TO FORM AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE GREAT TASK THAT WAS PROPOSED
DO IT SINCE IT HAD DATA AND POWERS FOR THE CREATION OF THINGS OF THE
LIFE. CONSISTENT WITH THIS ATTITUDE, OLOFIN GAVE GREAT POWERS AND ATTRIBUTES
DEPOSIT IN ALL YOUR TRUST FOR THE WORK YOU HAD ASSIGNED TO HIM. ACCORDING TO
WITH THIS OBATALA HAD A SEPARATE PLACE FOR HIS WORK, AS WELL AS PHENOMENA FROM THE OTHER
WORLD AT YOUR SERVICE. FOR THIS IT POINTS OUT THE DISTINCTION THAT OLOFIN MADE ABOUT OBATALA HAD
PROUD AND BEHAVED IN A ROUGH MANNER TOWARDS OTHERS
EXTREME THAT ONE DAY THEY APPROACHED HIM TO ASK FOR EXPLANATIONS TO THE COMPLAINTS THEY GAVE HIM
THE OTHER OSHAS, I PUT ALL OF THEM BY HIS SIDE. THEN ESHU WENT WHERE OLOFIN WAS AND HE
I tell what was happening. The next day when Obatala arrived at the place where
THEIR SECRETS WERE THERE, THE PHENOMENA HE COMMANDED AND THAT OBEYED WERE DESTROYED IN
SUCH A WAY THAT HIS SECRET NO LONGER FIT IN HIS HEAD WHEN THINKING ABOUT HOW IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT
Everything was in a state of abandonment and disorganization because one was a LERI.
ALONE, ANOTHER LEG ALONE, THE ARMS ALONE AND THE FEET ALONE AND SO ON.
OBATALA STARTED TO CALL THOSE BEINGS ONE BY ONE BY THEIR NAME AND THEY...
THEY CHALLENGED AND WHEN OBATALA ORDERED THEM TO DO SOMETHING THEY RESPONDED I CANNOT, BABA
BECAUSE I LACK THIS COMPARED TO OTHERS AND OTHERS RESPONDED THE SAME. OBSERVING OBATALA SO MUCH
DESPAIR, SO MUCH DISORDER HIS BRAIN COULDN'T RESIST ANYMORE AND HE STARTED TO CRY AND HE
Convulsions began and he was continuously expelling mucus through his nose and he
I put both hands on my face and left that place aimlessly and ended up in a jungle.
FAR
FROM THERE. IN THAT PLACE HE REMAINED UNCONSCIOUS UNTIL ONE DAY ELEGBA PASSED BY THERE AND
I saw with great astonishment to find Obatala in such a depressed and crying state.
SNEEZING MUCUS THROUGH THE NOSE. ELEGBA WENT TO OLOFIN AND TOLD HIM ABOUT THE SITUATION
SO SAD THAT OBATALA WAS IN AND HE SAID: OBATALA IS THE SAME AS YOU AND THE SAME AS
ANY SHA AND I HAVE GIVEN MORE POWER TO HIM FOR BEING TALA 'WHAT IS THE QUEDERRAMA
ALL THE EXTENSION” BUT THAT CUTTING IS A SPIRIT, AN EGGUN.
ELEGBA TOLD HIM, BUT WE NEED THAT BABA, SINCE YOU PUT HIM AT THE HEAD FOR THE GOOD OF
ALL OF US FOR HIS PURIFIED SOUL AND FOR THE CONTROL OF ALL OF US. THEN
OLOFIN TOLD HIM, BRING HIM HERE, ELEGBA RETURNED TO WHERE OBATALA WAS AND TOOK HIM BY A
HAND TO GUIDE HIM, BUT BEFORE GOING TO WHERE OLOFIN WAS, THEY ENTERED THE HOUSE OF
ORUNMILA. THIS ONE DID OSODE AND SAW THIS IFA, WHERE HE MARKED EBBO WITH EVERYTHING INDICATED
UP AND THIS HE DID, HE WAS OUT OF HIS MIND, HE CALMED DOWN AND WHEN HE REACHED THE FEET
OF OLOFIN, HE PUT HIS HANDS ON HIS HEAD AND CALLED HIM WITH THIS PRAYER:
OSHANLA ERU ARE (3 TIMES) MOWAYE MOWAYE MOKUA OGUN MOKUA OGGUN OGGUN ASHE.
THEN HE GAVE ADIE FUN FUN AND SAID TO HIM OBATALA YOU ARE THE SAME AS ALL MY CHILDREN BUT YOU WILL HAVE
THE GREAT POWER OF OBA BECAUSE YOUR BODY IS PURE, CLEAN, AND WHITE ON THE OUTSIDE AND ON THE INSIDE
INSIDE, IMMACULATE AND THAT IS WHY YOU ARE THE HEAD AMONG ALL THE OSHAS, OBATALA ANSWERED HIM:
FATHER I WILL NOT FORGET.
OBATALA GRATEFUL REMEMBERING THE GOOD OF ELEGBA, GAVE OSIADIE AND SAID: KAFEREFUN
ELEGBA, AND HE SAID THAT I SHOULD NEVER FORGET THIS, IN EVERYTHING THAT I OBATALA OBA TAISA HAVE
WHICHEVER INTERVENTION IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER CHOOSE ELEGBA FIRST. TO IBI ESHU.
WHAT OLOFIN SAID: ON EARTH ADAKOY I WILL NOT LIVE ANYMORE, BUT YOU OBATALA ME
YOU WILL REPRESENT. ASHE BO ASHE. TO ASHE BIMA. TO IBAN ESHU.
7.- THE PATH OF THE MAJA AND THE CAT.
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PATACON:
THE MAJA AND THE CAT WERE CHILDREN OF OBATALA, BUT THE MAJA WAS VERY DISOBEDIENT AND THAT'S WHY
OBATALA cursed him and that is why he did not walk dragging and picked up many bad dusts and
I was very dirty and going through a lot of trouble and without having a house to live in and very
PERSECUTED BY THE WHOLE WORLD, AND VERY MISTREATED WITHOUT HAVING ANYONE TO HELP HIM, NOR
THEY WERE IN THEIR HOUSE WHERE THEY HAD NO REST EITHER DAY OR NIGHT. THEIR BROTHER THE CAT
I ALSO DIDN'T HAVE A HOUSE TO LIVE IN OR WHERE TO EAT, SO I ALSO SPENT A LOT OF TIME
WORK, BUT THIS ONE WAS MORE AFFECTIONATE, HE BEGGED OBATALA TO GIVE HIM A HOUSE,
TO HAVE A ROOF WHERE TO REST, WHERE OBATALA TOOK PITY ON HIM AND BLESSED HIM
TO HAVE A HOUSE. THE CAT WENT TO ORUNMILA AND HE MADE EBBO FOR HIM, AND HE ARRIVED AT
HAVE HIS HOUSE IN THE TOWN AND LIVED VERY HAPPILY. THE MAJA CAME TO SEE HIM SO PERSECUTED IN HIM
MOUNTAIN, WHICH HAD TO LEAVE IT AND ARRIVED AT THE TOWN AND WENT TO THE HOUSE OF HIS
BROTHER THE CAT ASKED HIM PLEASE TO LET HIM STAY IN HIS HOUSE. THE CAT TOLD HIM THAT
I could not please him, for Obatala had told him that he could not have anyone taken in.
AT HIS HOME. THE MAJA BEGAN TO LAMENT HIS BAD LUCK AND MISFORTUNE AND TOLD HIM THAT
HE WAS VERY TIRED AND PURSUED, SO THAT HE COULD SLEEP THAT NIGHT IN HIS HOUSE THAT NO ONE
HE WAS GOING TO KNOW NOTHING, BECAUSE HE WOULD LEAVE THERE BEFORE DAWN. THE CAT
I let myself be dominated by family feelings and gave shelter for that night. It happened that
Since the male was very tired, he lay down and fell deeply asleep. The next day
NEXT HE GOT UP LATE AND WHEN HE LEFT HIS BROTHER'S HOUSE THE CAT, THE PEOPLE
THEY SAW HIM AND BEAT HIM TO DEATH BEFORE HE COULD CLIMB A TREE AND
FROM HERE THE COMMENT WAS FORMED, UNTIL THE THING REACHED THE EARS OF OBATALA, WHO WENT TO SEE IT.
WHAT HAPPENED AND HE REALIZED THAT THE CAT HAD LEFT HIS BROTHER THE MAJA IN HIS HANDLE
And the cat cursed his son who lost the house and for being disobedient was left without a home.
8.- THE GARMENT.
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PATAKIN:
IN THE LAND OF ADARASA, WHICH WAS LIKE A BORDER OF THE CARABALI LANDS, LIVED A WOMAN
Noble, kind, and obedient, who was called Ayelekun and lived with a man of that.
VILLAGE AND THIS MAN WAS LIKE A CHIEF OR GOVERNOR OF A GROUP OF MEN WHO
They gathered and formed a mutual aid association and appointed him as the leader.
SEVERAL PARTNERS WERE NAMED TO HOLD ASSOCIATION POSITIONS AND THUS THEY HAD RIGHTS
TO HELP OTHERS, ONCE THEY WERE READY, THEY STARTED TO ACT INSIDE
ABOUT RELIGION IN ALL THOSE PLACES, THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS FOR WHICH
THEY WERE WORRIED. EVERY DAY, WHEN THIS MAN LEFT TO FULFILL HIS
OBLIGATIONS THE WOMAN ALSO HAD TO GO GET WATER FROM THE RIVER, HER HUSBAND DID NOT WANT TO LET HER.
BELONGING TO THAT SOCIETY, BECAUSE THERE WERE NO WOMEN UNTIL THEN AND HE WAS SO CONCERNED
And I think about the time when going to fetch water from the river as usual, he encountered a...
WOMAN AT THE EDGE OF THE RIVER AND SAID TO HER:
Since you are so obedient and want to know things about your husband and he doesn't want to, I will go
I'M GIVING AWAY SOMETHING I HAVE IN THAT BOX SO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW, THIS
SAME WILL TELL YOU IN DREAMS AND AFTER GIVING THE GARMENT SHE HAD IN THE JAR TO THE WOMAN
SHE DISAPPEARED AND AYELEKUN RETURNED HOME WITH HIS WATER JAR AND THE SECRET. WHEN
HE ARRIVED AT THEIR HOUSE, PUT THE CLOTHING IN THE ROOM WHERE THEY SLEPT, AND THAT NIGHT HE...
They lay down as usual, at midnight they got up scared, because there had been
I HEARD A VERY LOUD NOISE AND SOME MOANS COMING FROM THE PLACE WHERE I WAS
The wife and the husband went and found a lump that was a head, which was what
He was moaning and complaining. And he asked his wife, what was that? And the woman told him.
AS IT HAD BEEN, HE TOLD HER TO RETURN THAT GARMENT TO THE LADY, BUT THE WOMAN DID NOT
HE SAID NOTHING AND THE NEXT DAY HE MET THE WOMAN AT THE RIVERBANK AND WHEN HE ARRIVED AT HER
HOUSE TAKEN THE GARMENT FROM WHERE IT WAS AND PUT IT FAR FROM WHERE THEY SLEPT. THAT
Last night I dreamed that the lady was telling her that her husband's company was going to fall apart because of the
ENVY AMONG EACH OTHER IN THE SAME GROUP, THAT IT SHOULD BE BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING TO
DISTANCE BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTED TO COMMAND AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE CAREFUL NOT TO BE
SOMETHING THAT WOULD HARM HER BY MANDATE OF THOSE WHO REMAINED IN THE GROUP OF
HER HUSBAND.
THE WOMAN WHO HAD THE DREAM REMEMBERED IT AND TOLD THE BOSS AND THEY TOLD HER THAT
HE HAD TO REMOVE THE GARMENT FROM THE WOMAN, SO THAT SHE WOULD NOT SAY ANYTHING, THE HUSBAND AFTER
THINKING ABOUT IT A LOT AND FORCED BY HIS COMPANIONS TOGETHER THEY KILLED THE WOMAN AND GAVE HER
THEY CUT OFF THE HEAD AND PUT IT ON THE GARMENT. EVERY NOW AND THEN THERE WERE TWO OR MORE PRISONERS PER
THE BAD INFLUENCE THAT EXISTED BETWEEN THEM AND THE DEATH OF THE WOMAN WAS DISCOVERED, BECAUSE THE
PEOPLE FROM THE OPPOSING SIDE HAD FOUND OUT ABOUT HIS DISAPPEARANCE AND DISCOVERED IT AND
THEY CAPTURED THE MAN. AND THE KING OF THOSE LANDS ORDERED THE HUSBAND TO BE KILLED, HE REMAINED
GROUP WITHOUT A LEADER AND THEN THEY AGREED TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE FORTUNETELLER WHO LIVED IN THE LAND OF ADARA
SA and the AWO who looked at him said: that they had to clean and feed the
DEAD, BECAUSE THE TWO DEAD ONES WERE HARMING HIM A LOT, AFTER GIVING HIM
FOOD TO EGGUN SO THAT THE DEAD AND BAD THINGS WOULD END, BECAUSE OF IT
OTHERWISE THE LOSSES WOULD CONTINUE.
THEY DID EVERYTHING THEY WERE TOLD, BUT THE BOYS WHO WENT TO THE PARTY
They took Oti and gave him to Eggun, they got him drunk and stole the fruit from him, when the...
MUERTA AYELOKUN WENT TO ASK ABOUT THE FRUITS LIKE THE EGGUN OF THE HUSBAND WAS
The drunk scratched his face and forehead. The Eggun were displeased and broke their agreement.
WITH EGGUN AND THUS THE OTHERS WERE SAVED, ENDING THE WAR AND DEATHS ON EARTH
ADARA SA.
9.- THE POWER OF ELEGBA AND OGGUN TO DESTROY ARAYE.
REZO: ADIFAFUN OGGUN MEFO GUN ADIFAFUN HE RECEIVES THE FORGOTTEN BLOOD OF THE SPIRITS, ADACOY ADIFAFUN LITTLE
YOU MUST BE CAREFUL WITH THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR YOU
Worship the spirit of the earth with sincerity and pure heart, for Elegba will grant you peace and abundance.
THE EGG IS A GREAT FOOD FOR CHILDREN GROWING UP.
EBBO:AKUKO, 7 EYELE, 7 MACHETICOS, KNIGHT'S SPUR, BOGBO TENUYEN, OTHERS
INGREDIENTS THAT I TAKE TO PREPARE THE SOUP.
INSHE:
OTURA ADACOY MUST HAVE ITS OGGUN REINFORCED WITH 7 MACHETICOS TO WHICH IT IS
A sacrifice is made, each one is painted with 4 lines of Ozun and 3 of Efun and they eat 7 Eyeles with Ogun.
WITH THE LERI OF EYELE ERU OBI KI THE OZUN OBI MOTIWAO AIRA, LAGANA OF AURA TIÑOSA, PALOS
MORURO GUAYAKAN, KNIGHT'S SPUR, MAKES AN INSHE OZAIN AND COVERS IT WITH BOGBO
ILEKE AND IT HANGS ON THE HANDLE OF A MACHETE. THESE 7 MACHETES ARE BURIED.
AROUND THE CALDRON OF OGGUN OF OTURA ADACOY AND THERE AN AKUKO IS GIVEN TO THE MACHETTES
TOGETHER WITH OGGUN, OTURA ADAKOY MUST HAVE A KNIGHT'S SPUR STICK OF HIS.
STOP NEXT TO YOUR ELEGBA. THIS STICK HAS THORNS AND AT TWELVE IN THE DAY IT HIDES THEM. NEXT TO
This is the stick where Oya hid when she went to give birth to Elegba and left him there.
SHELTERED WITH A FRAMBOYAN HULL THAT OTURA ADACOY MUST ALSO BE PUT ON
HE ELEGBA AND WITH THIS HE CALLS HIM TO RESPOND WHEN HE SENDS HIM TO WORK. IN THE
Tierra Teri Inshe that was the land of Iyanza, this was Obonú of Ogun, this creature.
BEFORE BEING BORN, ORIGIN CAUSED SEVERAL WARS AS OGGUN WAS IN A DISTANT LAND
WAGING WAR AND HIS ENEMIES DID NOT WANT IYANZA TO BE BORN, UPON SEEING THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
WHAT HAD TOUCHED HER AND HER CREATURE BEGAN TO CALL TO HER SECRET OF EGGUN WITH HER
Bastón, at the same time, was crying and singing the following:
THE GHOSTS ENTER THE WEALTH, THE GREAT HAUNTING, THE GOOD LUCK IS IN THE SPIRIT, THE GOODNESS OF LIFE SHALL RISE AGAIN
And the eggun said to him: that he had to leave those lands since they were going to kill him, and to
HIS SON ALSO AND THEN HE LEFT AND WHEN HE CAME TO SEE HE WAS ON THE BANK OF A RIVER, AND THERE
I tried to get into a cave but I couldn't because my belly wouldn't let me and then
HE DECIDED TO GET INTO THE RIVER AND WHEN HE GOT CLOSER TO THE SHORE HE SAW THAT IT WAS SURROUNDED BY
THERE WAS A OLD MAN SITTING IN ONE OF THOSE BUSHES
HAVING A CEREMONY, AND SHE HAD SEVERAL MACHETES NEXT TO HER, AND SHE ASKED HIM WHY
WHERE THE RIVER COULD PASS, THEN THE OLD MAN WHO WAS ORUNMILA SAID: YOU WANT
ABANDON THIS LAND AS THERE ARE MANY CONSPIRATORS AGAINST YOU AND YOUR SON; IT
SHE TOLD HIM YES AND SHE TOLD HIM THAT HER HUSBAND WAS OGGUN WHO WAS FAR AWAY AT WAR,
THEN ORUNLA TOLD HIM: YOU MUST HOLD A CEREMONY FOR YOU AND YOUR SON, SO THAT YOU CAN
ACHIEVE VICTORY OVER THE EARTH AND SHE TOLD HIM, I HAVE NOTHING TO PAY YOU WITH ONLY THE
PROMISE THAT YOU WILL BE THE SEER OF MY LAND AND OF MY SON'S AND THERE OYA FELT WITH
DOLORES OF CHILDBIRTH AND THERE SHE GAVE BIRTH TO ELEGBA AND HE WITH HIS HANDS THREW THE OKPUELE OF
ORUNMILA and the ODDUN OTURA ADAKOY came out.
ORULA TOOK IT AND BATHED IT IN THE RIVER AND TOLD THE IYARE; THIS CHILD IS HIS FATHER'S HEIR
AND THAT OTHER PLACE WHERE HE WILL BE CALLED KEKE AND IMMEDIATELY GAVE HIM A FRAMBOISE POD
I laid the child against the knight's stirrup and there Koko began to play his ashe.
AND THEN OGGUN ARRIVED AND SEEING OYA AND HER SON NEXT TO THE PLANT AND NEXT TO
ORUNMILA ASKED HER: START BECAUSE YOU ARE HERE AND NOT ON THE EARTH TORI INSHE INLE; AND SHE REPLIED
THEY TOLD ALL THE CONSPIRACY THAT WAS AGAINST THEM AND OGGUN MOUNTED IN TRANCE OF
ANGER AND I WANTED TO GO FIGHT AND THERE ORUNMILA THREW HIM A WHITE CLOTH AND SAID: OGGUN
YOU ARE A GREAT WARRIOR BUT YOU MUST DEDICATE YOURSELF TO A GREAT SECRET OF OZAIN TO
May you return to those lands and defeat your enemies. There you have virtue.
WHAT DID YOUR SON KOKO BRING TO EARTH THAT IS OTURA ADACOY AND ORUNMILA KNEELED TO OGGUN AND TO
THE CHILD OF OTURA ADDED AT THE FOOT OF OZAIN AND RODEO TO OGGUN WITH THE 7 SMALL MACHETES TO WHICH
THEY HELD A CEREMONY AND ELEGBA PLAYED HIS ASHERI MADE OF FRAMBOYAN AND THEY SANG WHILE
ORUNMILA and OZAIN performed a ceremony for OGGUN with the 7 machetes and the 7 eyele.
SINGING:
OTURA ADAKOY ADA IS A PLACE OF POTIONS, EVERY POTION IS GOOD, BE CAREFUL AND SIT ON OTURA ADAKOY BENDELE
The spirit of death is everywhere, there is a remedy for every ailment. The medicine is a bird, the remedy is a boy; welcome good fortune.
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AND OZAIN PREPARED A WAR INSHE FOR EACH OF THE MACHETE AND DELIVERED IT TO HIM FOR
THAT HE WENT ALONG WITH THE GBA AND OYA TO HIS LAND. THEY SET OUT ON THE ROAD AND KOKO WAS OPENING UP
THE SAME PLAYING HIS ASHERI AND LEANING ON THE STAFF OF EWE REKU REKU WHILE OGGUN
IT WAS ADVANCING SHOWING THE 7 MACHETES PREPARED BY OZAIN AND THE PEOPLE OF TORI INSHE INLE, TO
WHEN THEY SAW THAT, THEY GOT SCARED AND SOME RAN AWAY AND OTHERS THREW THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF OGGUN,
FROM OTURA ADAKOY AND FROM IYANZA AND THEY ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS AND THEY RENDERED MOFORIBALE AND THEY ASKED
Piety, where Oggun told Orunla, I will remain as the chief of the armies of this land and my
SON OF OTURA ADAKOY, WHO IS ELEGBA KOKO, WILL REIGN OVER ALL THESE LANDS.
TO IBAN ESHU.
NOTE: HERE THE AWO NEEDS TO HAVE A WELL REINFORCED OGGUN; TO HAVE THE KUARALDO AND
POSSESS OZAIN.
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