Odi Tauro

Meaning of Odi Tauro in the Diloggún

• It is an Oddun of vices, of sexual aberrations.


• Here the collapse of things was born. All plans can come crashing down. Things fall apart.


• You moved Orunmila to a different sopera (lidded tureen); put him back in his old sopera or house.


• Here Orumila was blind and his wife guided him.


• Through this Ifá the buzzard always finds its food.


• Odi Atakofeno: this Ifá marks vices.


• Here speaks logbum, the son of Inle and Oshún, who had the faculty of being a man for six months and a woman for another six; Orunmila made Ifá for him.


• It speaks of people made effeminate by vices who may come to make Ifá and will forever be the shame of their godfather.


• The okpele of this Ifá is made with igui ayire (seso vegetal) and is washed with prodigiosa, maravilla, cundiamor and bejuco lechero, and it eats with Shangó, akuko and etu.


• The iyefa of this Ifá is made with seeds of seso vegetal, leri of eya oro, ishu, Ikú (death), heart of mariwo, shavings of dried obi, obi kola, eru, obi motiwao, Osun, ewefa.


• One must go find the Eleguara of the wild brush to ask him to give sight to the Eleguá of the house.


• Here sexual excess and the profanation of the sacred were born.


• Filial respect. Fathers who have lived with their daughters, sons who have lived with their mothers, brothers who have violated their sisters, and so on.


• If the person is a woman, she gazes at her breasts in the mirror. She lives in love with her own body. She has three men.


• There is suffering from pain in the bones and in the chest owing to heart trouble.


• In your house everyone wants to rule.


• If the woman is expecting a child, works must be done for her, because the child comes to replace the mother.


• You are, or wish to be, the head of something.


• Pay Obatalá so that good luck may reach you.


• Be careful that something you keep hidden is not discovered.


• Place así pupua in the patio of your house.


• You are always in discord with one another.


• Do not take anyone into your home, to avoid the ruin of the house.


• Be careful you do not end up in prison.


• You must receive the elekes (the necklaces) and make Santo.


• Give thanks to Obatalá every single day.


• Obatalá says that you are his cook.


• Do not baptize anyone, for you will fall out with your compadre or comadre because of envy.


• You are more drawn to espiritismo than to the Santo.


• This is where the rooster wanted to be a general, and the goat a king.

EWE OF THE SIGN: Álamo, seso vegetal and dátil.

Born in this sign

1. Men performing the sexual act with she-goats and hens, and women with dogs and monkeys.
2. The collapse of things.
3. Sexual excess.
4. The profanation of the sacred.
5. PRAYER: Legun Ede Adodi Ofoku Akurin Sembe Luju Atena Ifá Shosho Le Owore Omo Ologbojodu Awo De Ifá Sharoto Abiatefini Mefa Eshu Ara Ekoni Mefa Oasho A Na Onini Adifafun Eshu Faunmi Intobi Aron Kaferefun Agbanukue Kaferefun Orunmila.
6. SUYERE: Akashosho Ofumi La Awa Kamadajun.
7. EBBO: akuko meyi, eyele merin, 101 ota keke, aikordie merin. If he is an awo godfather: ivory, eko fife, atare merin, shimale merin, seso vegetal, etu fun fun, eku, eya, opolopo owo.
8. PATAKIN:.
9. In the land of Yesa lived Oshún, who had a romance with a fisherman named Erinie of Edo. The child born of the union of Oshún and the fisherman was named Logun Ede. At birth, the child inherited his father’s magic, which allowed him to be a man for six months and a woman for another six. No one knew this secret, because his parents were always traveling from place to place to avoid scandal. Those who knew him as a man did not know him as a woman, and vice versa.
10. So Logun Ede grew up and became known throughout the Yoruba land, at times as a man and at times as a woman. One day, a man named Ologbojodu met him as a man and noticed his intelligence. Ologbojodu was an awo and oba of the city, so he asked Orunmila for permission to make Ifá for him. Orunmila marked doubts and also told him not to make Ifá for him.
11. Ologbojodu grew stubborn about making Ifá for him, and so he did. Everything went along well until Logun Ede told his godfather that he had to be away for six months. The truth was that his six months as a woman were due, and so Logun Ede departed.
12. Then there appeared in the market of Igada a woman of unmatched beauty, capable of captivating all the Okuni. One day Ologbojodu saw her and was smitten by such beauty; he courted her and she responded. He took her to his Ile, and when he asked her name she told him she was called Omi Lorbe.
13. They lived in harmony until one day she told Ologbojodu that she had to leave to visit some relatives. This beautiful woman, who was none other than Logun Ede in his transformation as a woman — Ologbojodu, in love as he was, decided to possess her that night, and the two fell asleep. At daybreak the six months as a woman were fulfilled, and she turned back into a man.
14. Ologbojodu was astonished to see that it was no longer the beautiful woman sleeping at his side but his godchild Logun Ede. Confusion reigned in Ologbojodu’s mind, and horrified he went to the feet of Orunmila, greeted him and had osode done, only to discover that Odi Tauro came out, which meant Ikú for disobedience, vice and corruption. He came looking for him, and only Faun, living in the heart of the jungle, knew the secret to save him from the evil. But Abanakue, an Eleguá, agreed to take the Awo to Faun’s house in exchange for A wa Oin Meni, Eñi Meni and Aikordie.
15. Ologbojodu went carrying what Ela had marked for him: akuko for agba abanakue, eyele meyi for faun, 101 small ones, meni aikordie, ivory, eko fifo, eko olarito, meni atare. When they arrived at Faun’s house, and he learned of the matter that brought them there, he showed awo Ologbojodu the ahikale vine (seso vegetal) for obori and to save himself from Ikú; for Logun Ede, Ela marked ebbo with etu fun fun meyi, to be given to the Ibeyis. He also marked, as sentence upon his future, that he withdraw from the practice of Ifá and that ikines ofo be placed on his ade.
16. NOTE: if the person does not have Jimaguas, it must be given to a person who is a Jimagua; the Olou must never give it to his own. For all of the above, ever since then, to avoid disgrace, Ifá is not made for any doubtful Okuni or Adodi. This Oddun speaks of two men who live as husband and wife; if they do not desist from this, Ela will kill them.