Odi She

The hen’s eggs

PATAKIN:The hen laid her eggs every day, believing that after three Fridays her chicks would hatch. But her enemies — the cochineal, the worms and other insects — pecked at her eggs and left them completely empty. The hen, weary of sitting on her eggs, decided one day to go to Orunmila’s house. He told her to make an ebbó with 5 eggs, worms, a rooster and two chicks. The hen did so, and from then on she gained sight. When the insects came to peck at her, she saw them and killed them. That is why, ever since, when the hen is brooding, she pecks.2.- THE MOUTH KILLED THE HEAD.

EBBO: akuko, adie meyi, epo, awado, a little cooked food, earth from the shoes, earth from the street door, cloth of different colors, used clothing, three arrows, a machete, owo la meyo.PATAKIN:Once upon a time there was a hunter resting in the shade of a great, sturdy tree, brooding over how fruitless that day’s hunt had been. Despite his sorrow, he had caught nothing, and the man gnawed at his own insides. In despair, he headed back to his hut, but a few steps on he stopped, horrified, before a human head that seemed to have been severed. Fear overcame him, and the forest seemed more silent than ever, without even the sweet song of the birds that sometimes kept him company in his solitude. The hunter’s blood froze in his veins, and, seized with dread before the human head, he murmured to himself: who could have killed the man whose head lies at my feet? As if it had heard him, the head began to speak. Bewildered and half dead with anguish, the man wanted to retrace his steps, but curiosity made him turn back to question the talking head. «Who killed you?», the hunter asked. The head replied: «The mouth». With wings for feet, oblivious to everything around him, the young hunter reached the village where he lived. Downcast, he set out to rest and forget that unpleasant event. But an old man, savoring his dirty, foul-smelling pipe, asked him: «What has happened to you? Why do you not bring back the game that would serve as your food?». The inexperienced youth answered: «After a wearying crossing of the streams where the animals quench their thirst, I climbed the hills where the mighty ekun has his lair, but my arrows could not bring down the deer. On my way back, I found a bleeding, filthy human head, whose half-open eyes stared at the sky and whose lips seemed to smile in an infernal way. I questioned the head about its misfortune and asked who had killed it. My astonishment was enormous when I heard its answer: ‘The mouth’». There was a brief silence, broken again by the voice of the talking head. «I have told you everything, from the high rock to the deep ravine», it said. The news spread through the village, but no one could believe the young hunter’s story. Even so, they all went with him to the scene. When they reached the place where the head of the beheaded man lay, the hunter approached it and asked the same question: «Who killed the head?». After that question, not even the buzzing of a fly was heard. The villagers, furious at the lie that young hunter had told them, accused him and sentenced him to death.NOTE: In this Ifá one must have an Ozain and one must fulfill one’s duties to the dead. It is important to have a mass said for one’s deceased elders. If one keeps a cazuela, it must be attended, for it is demanding food. The person consulted in this Ifá has the habit of talking too much.3.- OLUO BOMO SWAPPED PEOPLE’S HEADS.

PRAYER: Oladofun Oluo Bomo She Kete She Kete Oluo Oloferi Modun Erini Odi Kereshe Igui Obashe Kioni Adfafun Onye Akoka Eyele Ideba Idishe Ireleshe Adifafun Oloshe Olofin Elelu Iya Ilori Obini Sishe Irleshe Iguibashe Igbin Ñami Adifafun Amatoto Olofarinu Oggún Eyele Lebo Eure Lebo.EBBO: eure meyi, eyele meyi, ekru, olele, akara, $10.80.PATAKIN:Oluo Bomo Shekete Awo was a Babalawo who was sent to rule the land of Elulu Iya Ilori after the death of Amafofo, who had been the oba of those lands. This awó had Odishe and knew the sorcery of Ozain for taking possession of people’s minds. He began to take the brains of the people of that land for his own benefit through Ozain, storing them at the foot of an atori bush, but he piled them up together without telling them apart. One day Onye Awo, a messenger of Olofin, arrived in that land. When he saw the state of the people there, he consulted Ifá and made an ebbó. He gave a eure to his Ifá and went to Olofin, telling him what was happening in Elulu Iya Lori through the power of the Ozain of Oluo Bomo Shekete Awo. Olofin sent Obatalá to that land to see what was going on with Oluo Shekete Awo. On learning of Obatalá’s arrival, the Awo hurried to give each person back their brain so as to stand well before Olofin. However, since he had heaped them up without telling them apart, he began to switch people’s brains with one another. He put the women’s brains into the men and the children’s into the old, among others. When Obatalá arrived, he had to perform an obori eleda on each person to restore them to normal. Because of the actions of Oluo Bomo Shekete Awo, who had displaced people’s brains, they had to strip him of the rule of the land. He had abused the power of Odishe and the sorcery of Ozain for his own interests, without caring about the consequences this would have on people’s lives.