Signs · Patakíes · Orishas

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The 255 signs of the Diloggún — their proverbs, their stories and their works — as kept by the Cuban manuscripts of the Rule of Osha.

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Signs: 255
Patakíes: 1,728
Proverbs: 949
Words: 1.2 M

Sign Ogunda Meyi The kingdom of iron Orisha Yemayá Owner of the waters Family Oyekun 122 patakíes preserved Orisha Eleguá Owner of the roads Sign Osala Fobeyo The longest letter in the corpus

Okana✳ Ogbe✳ Oyekun✳ Ogunda✳ Osa✳ Obara✳ Odi✳ Iroso✳ Oshe✳ Ofun✳ Ojuani✳ Otura✳ Irete✳ Ika✳ Otrupon✳ Iwori✳ Okana✳ Ogbe✳ Oyekun✳ Ogunda✳ Osa✳ Obara✳ Odi✳ Iroso✳ Oshe✳ Ofun✳ Ojuani✳ Otura✳ Irete✳ Ika✳ Otrupon✳ Iwori✳

Diloggún Signs

Sixteen families, one corpus

Each odu opens its family, and each family keeps its combinations. Walk the index: beneath every name there are stories, proverbs and works that have been written for a century.

The major letters

Sixteen meyis head the Diloggún

Each family is opened by its meyi. From these sixteen major letters descend the omoluos, and the study begins with them.

Orishas

The owners of every road

The orisha files, written in depth: who they are, how they are attended, and in which signs they speak. Photography will come; the knowledge is already here.

Atlas of the corpus

The lands the patakíes name

Ifé, Arará, Oyó, Dahomey, the Congo lands. This is not a map: it is the territory as it appears in the stories, with the real number of files that name it. Position is composition, not cartography.

The source

An archive with provenance

This corpus was not written for the internet: it comes from Cuban manuscripts of the Rule of Osha and is published ordered and faithful to the source text. Where the document is silent, this house does not invent.

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