Meaning of Iroso Kana in the Diloggún
- Ifá of the reckless. Beware of recklessness, so that you do not lose.
- Orunmila sends the awo to study Ifá.
- The person has not managed to marry the love of their life.
- Here the daughters mock their father’s vigilance: when they fall in love and the father opposes it, they find ways to keep seeing the suitor and will warn him so as to save him from the father’s anger.
- It marks an accident in the street, which you or someone close to you will suffer. Ikú (death) is walking behind the person.
- There are times when the person lies down and enters a state in which they are neither asleep nor awake; they try to speak but cannot utter a word while that lethargy lasts.
- There are those who lose an eye trying to see another go blind.
- The key of this Ifá for resolving every problem is to ask Shangó, with obí and omi tutu, what he wishes to be done for him; until this is done, nothing will become clear.
- The person has two lovers, and one of them is placing harmful things at their door to break up the household.
- There is a work buried at your door or in your garden so that you cannot get ahead.
- You must guard against troubles of passion, for the woman’s relatives will come after you as a gang.
- It forbids building on, or going to live in, someone else’s house.
- It forbids keeping the clothes or tools of the dead, so that they do not follow behind you.
- You must be careful with fire, for even the house could burn.
- The woman is not a maiden; she has hidden relations and someone is going to give her away.
- The woman may end up throwing the husband out of the house.
- Your house is full of bandits.
- The woman slept naked and the eyo (maja, a snake) came at night and suckled at her breasts. Beware of blows and bites to the breasts.
- A person whom you consider lazy or incapable, and in whom you place no trust, will help you win a war or a difficult situation, and you will forever be in that person’s debt.
- An eyele is quickly given to Osun together with Shangó.
Born in this sign
- The removal of the gan from the awo’s leri.
- Cancer of the breasts.
What this sign indicates
- That you have something that hinders you, and that you should pay heed to Orunmila, who will be the one to save you.
- You are saying that people are doing you harm, and there is no such thing.
- You must receive Ikoda and Obatalá.
- There are times when you lie down and are neither asleep nor awake; you want to speak and cannot.
- Your husband has two other women, and that is why things are being placed at your door.
- A work has been buried at your door so that you cannot get ahead.
Advice and warnings
- Never lie down smoking, for you would go through a great ordeal.
- Do not cast curses; what you imagine is not true, but do not speak ill of it.
- Be careful with the people who are watching you in order to catch you in a trap; all of it comes from the envy they bear you.
The traditional interpretation of this sign further warns of the following:
- You are pregnant, and your husband will say that the child is not his.
- Death is walking behind you.
Proverbs of Iroso Kana
- Engaña a quien no sabe. He deceives the one who does not know.
- Palabra dada, palabra empeñada. A word given is a word pledged.
- Quien es amigo del perro de la casa, este sale y no descubre. Whoever befriends the dog of the house, the dog comes out and does not give him away.
- Tanto quiere el padre a los hijos que les saca los ojos. The father loves his children so much that he plucks out their eyes.
Patakíes of Iroso Kana
The dog saved him
Ebbo: Un perro, almagre, ñame, eyele, eku, eya, epo, $8.40.
Ebbo: Género punzó, almagre, orí, eku, eya, ñame peludo, trampa, un perro y $8.40.
A man used to visit a young girl and would hide in her room. One day he was denounced to her father, but the girl found out: she took the dog she kept, put a collar of ñame on it and painted it with red ochre, and the man understood the warning and was saved.
The gan of the leri
Prayer: Kukute Kuku Adifafun Malade Tincholla Obaraba Niregun.
Once, the awoses would go to the Ilé Loya to announce themselves as diviners, and they would take out the okuele to cast it anywhere, even on the market stalls. They always wore the gan on the leri, showing off and reading for everyone.
Olofin learned what these diviners were doing and said: «I am going to have myself read by them.» And so he did. When the awoses saw Olofin arrive, they asked him whether he wanted a reading; he said yes and took out the owo lele. The awoses examined him (Ifá osorbo fore) (ebbo this or that), and then Olofin asked them: why is the ebbo? They could not explain it to him.
Olofin had himself read seven times in the same manner, until, displeased, he said: «I have spent a great deal and they have told me nothing.» Orunmila arrived and Olofin brought him his complaints. Orunmila said: «But these are my children — how can they be doing this?» And he summoned the awoses and rebuked them, for indeed they divined nothing. After examining Olofin: this gentleman comes for a reading because he has obini meguá and wants to know whether any of them has another okuni.
Then Olofin told Orunmila that this was true. Orunmila thereupon told his children that what they were doing was a deception, and that they should leave the marketplace for their homes, remove the gan from the leri, and study Ifá, because what they were doing greatly discredited his rule.
This Ifá speaks of the iyogye, which is when the gan is removed from the leri of the awoses.
Works and ebbó of Iroso Kana
Works of Iroso Kana
- Inshe Ozain
- Three aikordie, 3 roots of atinpola, 3 leaves of atinpola, 3 ataré, asho fun fun, dun dun ati pupua ati opori (up to 5 colors may be used), obi kola, obi motiwao, filings of gold and silver, shell of eñi adie, and eñi eyele, emptied. It is asked which animal it eats, and the iñales of that animal are placed on it.
- Against the arayes
- An ikoko is taken and drink of every kind is poured into it, and the names of the arayes (strife) are written on cloths of different colors and placed inside the ikoko. Seeds of maravilla are added, and it is given the eyerbale of an eyele, with Oggún placed beside it and taking care that nothing falls on Oggún. This is done over five Mondays; the house is fumigated with dried maravilla roots… and during the whole time the work lasts, the interested party washes their face with all of this.
- Note
- If it should turn out that the araye comes by way of an Eggun, then instead of the name, only the colored cloths are placed in the vessel.
- Note
- When the araye comes by way of an Eggun, I mark oparaldo.
Prayers and suyeres of Iroso Kana
Liturgical material transcribed from the source manuscripts; it is preserved verbatim.
Prayer
Aguifa Ni Ello Ni Tounllo Ni Lelefa Odafa Baraboni Regun Acodie Asho Funfun.
Prayer
Kukute Kuku Adifafun Malade Tincholla Orunmila Adie Lebo Auco Eyele Lebo.
Orishas in this sign
The orishas that the letter itself links to this sign, according to what the source records:
Other important aspects of the sign
Ewé of the sign
Estefanote, escameloto, bastón de san francisco.
Iroso Kalu Kukute Kuku Adifafun Malade Tinakaya Orunmila Obara Babiregun.