Meaning of Otrupon Di in the Diloggún
- The word of Orunmila never falls to the ground.
- This Ifá speaks of a spirit that shares life with the person.
- Nothing canned is eaten, no preserves of any kind.
- It points to impotence and to surgical operations.
- It points to someone having died so that you could live.
- For not doing what the Saint indicates, the person becomes lost.
- For 7 days no hunted animals or fish are eaten.
- The throat must be looked after with great care.
- Avoid being at parties, because harm can come to you there.
- Do not carry blades or firearms. They are placed before Oggún.
- Kofibori, for the head runs hot.
- Greed may cost you your life or land you in prison.
- Elegbara is going to favour you.
- Corn may not be eaten.
- Do not tell the secrets you know.
- Give thanks to Shangó, to Obatalá, to Orishaoko and to Orunmila.
- You are holding a grievance with a relative or a friend.
- Through osobo (misfortune) everything goes badly.
- Bad things are being thrown at your door.
- You believe you suffer from a malignant illness; that is not so.
- Receive Orishaoko and give food to the earth.
- Great care with what you eat away from your house, because you have many enemies.
- For seven days examine well what you eat, lest a foreign or dangerous body catch in your throat.
- Make ebbo before 9 days pass so that you do not otoku. Ebbo: akuko, an empty tin with a lid, with a little doll inside, an earthen jar with omi okun, abiti, asho arae.
- When this Ifá is seen, an eyele is sacrificed to the earth, the names of 3 deceased awoses are called, and on sacrificing them the eyerbale is sprinkled.
- The ara of the eyele is taken out and placed on a fun fun plate, set behind the shilekun ilé.
- Take sitz baths with ewe mil flores.
- Use washes that do not go beyond the rectum, and use it only to defecate and to sit.
- Guard against cancer of the throat and of the rectum.
What this sign indicates
- That either in your own house or in some other place where you went to eat, something happened whereby the table was left set and the meal could not be eaten.
- If you want to save yourself, you must make ebbo before nine days pass.
- You could not eat fish or any animal that had not been hunted until seven days had passed, nor eat anything without first examining it, because something may catch in your throat.
- You believe in the Saints and yet at times you have mocked them.
- You hold another belief.
- You have an opponent who wishes to see you dead.
- Your setback comes because you abandoned your wife and now you regret it.
- You are thinking of asking someone for something of some value.
Advice and warnings
- Have your head prayed over, because your Angel is not very pleased.
- Take care with the door of your house.
The traditional reading of this sign further warns about the following:
- You have money put away; share it out so that health returns to you.
Proverbs
- Salud divino tesoro. Health, that divine treasure — nothing a person keeps is worth more than it.
- Lo negro no se pone blanco. What is black does not turn white — what a thing truly is cannot be disguised.
Patakíes
The corn harvester
In this story there was a man who grew corn and sold it cooked, being the only one who had corn available. He was also very rich. But one day he fell gravely ill, and he was told to make an ebbo with 4 sacks of money, a rooster and a hen. He refused to do it, however, because he preferred to put up 8 sacks of money rather than 4 sacks of corn. As a result his health grew worse, and his family decided to make the rogation without him. Once the corn had been shared out among everyone, all of them had health — all except the harvester, who had been selfish and had not been willing to share his corn.
The word of Orunmila never falls to the ground
There was once a hunter who went to Orunmila for a reading, and Orunmila told him that in order to go on hunting he had to make ebbo. But the hunter, holding another belief, paid him no heed and belittled Orunmila. Afterwards the hunter managed to catch a fine porcupine, and at a feast with his friends, in order to belittle Orunmila, they invited him to the table. Orunmila told them that although the hunter had caught the animal, none of them would manage to eat it, because of his disobedience.
But they paid him no heed, and the man presiding at the table served himself a piece of the animal. As he chewed, a fragment of the spear with which it had been hunted lodged in the roof of his mouth; the spear had broken and the piece had stayed inside the animal’s flesh. This caused a wound, and abundant blood began to flow which would not stop, and he died on the spot. The people could not eat, and the table was left set.
The children of Orunmila held another feast and went out singing that the word of Orunmila never falls to the ground. In this way it was shown that the wisdom of the greatest and most experienced must not be belittled.
The one who provided the porcupine to punish the hunter’s disobedience was Eshu-Ni.
– kintoshe and the awó
Manduley had a daughter named Kintoshe who could not conceive a child, so she consulted an awó, who told her she would have a girl. But as time passed, Kintoshe still did not become pregnant. One day the awó who had examined her years before at her father’s house saw her and asked after her father. She told him she had had no news of him for a long time. The awó then proposed to Kintoshe that they consult Orunmila to see whether Ifá would confirm what he had said before. He took out the ekuele and placed it in Kintoshe’s hands, and the Ifá came out that Orunmila confirmed. The awó fell in love with Kintoshe and she fell in love with him too, and she became pregnant soon after. They returned to Osorde and saw that the child to be born was a girl. Then they went to Manduley’s house, where the awó explained the situation and presented to him the granddaughter who would soon be born, saying that she would be the happiness of them all. Manduley warned that if what the awó had said did not come to pass, the awó would lose his reputation. Nine months later the girl was born, proving the awó right. As a result, Manduley named Orunmila the head of his government and his granddaughter a princess. Lodafun Orishaoko.
When this Ifá is seen, an eyele is sacrificed, it is roasted and placed on a fun fun plate behind the door; in the name of the officiating awó or of the person concerned, the three Eggun are called.
Works and ebbó of Otrupon Di
Works of otrupon di
- Inshe Ozain for iré
- Go to the bush, and there close your eyes and gather leaves by hand, to mount the inshe, adding iyefa to it. Every morning it is sprinkled with fresh water while asking it for what is desired. When you give adie to Orunmila, set it down to eat, for that is the only thing it eats. After the ebbo, the leri of the person concerned is shaved; the hair is sent to be thrown into the sea, and two fun fun eyele from the ebbo are taken for kofibori eleda with opolopo efun. This is for arun unlo. The ara (bodies) of the eyele umbebolo.
- Ebbo
- Akuko, 3 arrows, 3 eyele.
- Ebbo
- Arrows, 4 cowries of the saints, a drum, akuko, eyele, 4 asia in the colours of the saints, the remaining ingredients, opolopo owo.
- Ebbo
- Ten cowries, a flag of three colours, rooster, adie, corn.
Prayers and suyeres of Otrupon Di
Liturgical material transcribed from the manuscripts of the source; it is kept literal.
Prayer
Kalleun Ninchaguo Elle Ni Canle Como Adifafun Olloco Eyele Adie Lebo Akuko Adifafun Orunmila Ounko Adie Abo Ounko Lebo.
Prayer
Otrupo Di Ifá Callo Leninchaguo Alle Ni Quini A Olle Asia Olloco Abeboardie Ebeta Owo Owo. Arini Elesecan Oggún.
Orishas in this sign
The orishas that the letter itself links to this sign, according to what the source records:
- Orunmila — The word of Orunmila never falls to the ground.
- Orisha Oko — Receive Orishaoko and give food to the earth.
Other aspects
Ewé of the sign
Ewe diez del día, carquesa, sacu sacu, corn.
Otrupon Di Tayeen Nins Hawe Aye Ni Kanle Keme Adifafun Oyeke Arere Adie Lebo, Akuko Lebo, Adifafun Orunmila, Akuko, Eñi Adie, Abo Lebo. Otrupon Di Ifá Keye Le Ninshawo Aye Ni Kini Aun Eye Asie Eyeko Abeboadie, Abota Ewe Lebo. Arirni Elesakan Oggún.