Ebo: Akuko kan, Ako-die marun, Eyele kan, Media botella de Oti, Asho fun- fun, y lavarse la cabeza. Huevos oni Syeye. Ebo: Akuko kan, Etu Kan, Eyele kan, Agua 7 Iglesias, Flor Morada, lyerosun, eku-eja, ori-efun, epo, oti, oni, aguado, opolopo owo. Ebo: Akuko kan, Aunko kan, Eyele kan, Cuje, soga, Tierra 4 esquinas, eku- eja, oti, obi-atare meta, ori-efun, ibno, aguado, opolopo owo. Ebo: Akuko kan, Adie kan, Eyele fun-fun meji, Korabi Eleda con todos los ingredientes necesarios para rogacion de cabeza He Made Divination for the Male Sperm Ogunda fifun ru ru ru, baba/awo ato1 odita fun ato. He made divination for the male sperm when he was relatively unknown. He was told to make sacrifice with palm wine and papo After making the sacrifice, he went to live with the divinity of child-birth (Olugbodo in Yoruba and Akobie in Bini). Whoever wanted children went to the divinity of childbirth for help. After going to live with Olugbado, Ato advised thedivinity to tel! anyone who wanted a child to make sacrifice. after which he (sperm) would follow them home. Nonetheless, he remained ineffectual. Subsequently, the sperm went to Ose-Etura for divination, who advised him to make sacri> fice with okro and a kind of edible clay called Eko in Yoruba and Eko in Bini. Ose-Etura made the sacrifice for Ato by burning up the two materials and grinding them into powder, After giving him the Ase, he was told to be taking the powder with pap every moming. Thereafter, he was able to become effective in bringing forth a new life in mankind and animals by fertilizing the female eg9. That was how and when the sperm became famous and indispensable. When this Ifa appears at Ugbodu, the person will be told to serve the new Ifa with anothergoal. The breast of the goat will be used to prepare a special okro (Edure in Yoruba and Ohukpo in Bini) soup for him or her to eat so that the Elders of the Night might not make his/her reproductive organs barren and ineffective. At ordinary divination, the person if aman, should be advised to serve Esu with a he-goat to prevent his wife from deserting him as a result of delayed child-birth. If it appears for a woman, she willleave her present husband for a second one. He Made Divination for the Father of aU Snakes Pelebi abidi soro - was the Awo who made divinationfor Ojola-gidigba when he was about to become the father 01 all snakes in thE fores1. He was advised to make sacrifice to prevent his children from becoming ill. He was required to make sacrifice with the clothes he was wearing, a cock and palm kernel oi! (adin in Yoruba and uden in Bini). He made the sacrifice after which he was given a speciallfa medicine which he was told to share among his children, in other to make them live natural/y. Instead of becoming i/I, they shed off their scale skins and get rejuvenated, because of the cloth their father used to make sacrifice. When thisodu appears at divination, the person will be told to make sacrifice to deter the tisk of becoming m. Orunmila Advises Cleanliness at a1ITimes Orunmila ni aga se se. Oni ki a mu nkan ebo oga se sewa. Monl emi ko mo nkan ebo oga se se. Orunmila advises absolute eleanliness in all that one does. Before speaking to fa or serving him, the worshipper should e/ean hislher feet, hands, and wear elean white dress, have a e/ean heart and wash kolanuts before using them to talk to him or serve him. Anyone who seNes Orunmila in that way will s,!re/y reeeive the reward. When this odu appears at divination, the person will be advised to wear clothes with fightcolors throughout the days of hislife, and should neither dress nor behave untidily, because goodness dwells in elean environments. He Made DivinatioD for the Pig to Have ChUdren Ogunda fun fun fun, awo ema 010 ikin'fun ema ati esi. He. made divination for both domestic, and the bush, pigs to haye children. They were advised to make sacrifice with a hen and a pigeon, six akara, six eko, and sixkolanuts. They made the sacrifices and hence beca me yery productive. That is why pigs produce many children ata time. At divination, the person will be advised to make sacrifice in order to haye chi.ldren.lf it". - . appears for a woman and she makes thesacrifice, she wilf begin by having twins or triplets. If the divinee is a man, he will be told that he will come across a woman who is not yery pretty, but that if he makes sacrifice, she will give birth to many children. He Made Divination for the Mother of Alajunare The same Awo made divination for the mother of Alajunare to have children. She was required to make sacrifice with guinea-fowl; hen, pigeon, beans andcom. She did the sacrifice, after which she became pregnant. Her first delivery was a pair of twins. Yeye Olojunare is the colloquial name for the mother of twins . . At divination, for a woman, she will beadvised to make sacrifiEe and be told that she is likely to have twins sometime in her lif.e. He Made DivinatioD for Ogun During his Dispute with Akin Ogunda fun fun fun, odita (un Ogun ni jo ti Akin le kpa re. He made divination for Ogun when he was being pursued by Akin, the agressive one. Ogun was advised to make sacrifice’ to be able to subdue his assailant. He made the sacrifice with a hen and three maize combs.When Akin eventually accosted Ogun, a fight ensued between them. In the process, Esu placed the maize comb wjth which Qgun made sacrifice behind Akin. As soon as Akin stepped on the comb, heslipped and fell to the ground and Ogun would have beheaded him with his sword but for the fact that Akin conceded superiority to Qgun. At djvinatjon, the person should be told to make sacrifice in order to overcome an enemy who is threatening to undo him or her. The Divination He Made Before Leaving Heaven Owo ale e ba to'wuro jo. Owo ale o rein owuro. Those were the, two Awos who made divination for Orunmila before he left heaven for the world. He was advised to make sacrifica to forestall the nefarious plans of enemies. He was required to make sacrifice with a bag containing all edible food-stuffs, sixty- five thousand dollars, crushed yam, small chicken, anda three-piece kolanut. He was also told to serve his guardian angel with a ram, cock and tortoise. He was also told to serve Ogun with cock, tortoise, roasted yarn, palm wine and palm frond. Immediately betore leaving tor earth, he was required to obtain God's blessings with white pigeon, white cloth, white kolanuts, coconut and red parrot's feather. After making all the sacrifices, he left tor earth. During his joumey to the earth, he met Esu on the way, who queried him for daring to leave for earth without obtaining clearance from him. He replied that he was not told at divination to serve him. Esu however insjsted that he was not going to allow him to proceed on his earthbound joumey without getting a he-goat f;-om him.Ogunda-Ofun eventually retumed to heaven to Esu, after narrating his experience to the two Awos who made divination for him. They apologizedto him for not telling him to serve Esu in the first instance. He eventually served Esu with a he-goat, white cloth, palm oil, rat, fish and a new pot. After eating his food, Esu offeredto eseort him to earth, during which Esu told him that he was golng to be a proficient and famous Ifa priest, but warned that his sucCess was going to generate tremendous animosity against him unless he joined other Awos to be holding meetings in order to understand and emulate their methodology. On getting to the wOrld, he started with initial success, but his fame and fortune soon began to generate envy and the Awos he met on earth started using the power of witchcraft to obstruct his work. One day, Esu reminded him that he had made no sacrifice since coming to earth. He advised him to make a feast for people with a goal. He made the feast at which some of his invitees expressed appreciation by telling him that they thought his success would endure by ignoring them. Before dispersing, the invitees told him to be present at their meeting that night. Incidentally, his swom enemies did not participate in the feast. Also absent was his own wife who, unknown to him, belonged to the club of witchcraft. It was Esu who again directed him to do something about his principal enemies who were obstructing his work. Esu however asked for his own he-goat at that poin! and it was given to him. Thereafter, Esu disclosedthe identities of his principal enemies as comprising: the handmaid of Orisa; the handmaid of Oshun/Olokun; and the handmaid of the divinity of death. Esu advised him to produce a big gourd of palm wine tor him to use, which he quickly made available. Ogunda~Otun attended that night's meeting of the club of withcraft where he discovered hiswife to be a prominent member. Orisa, Olokun and Death all torbid wine. As soon as the meeting was fully gathered, Esu pretended to have inadvertently broken the gourd of palm wine and the smell drove away the three divinities from the meeting. Thereafter, Orunmila was formally initiated as a member of the club and he was told that the meeting would be held °nhis house on every eighth day. Thereafter, his prosperity began to blossom and he lived to a ripe old age. At the height of his prosperity, he made a large feast with.a cow,goat and rams to which he invited his Awos and sang in their praise. At that stage, he served his Ifa with acock, since he was already ~ witch himself. It will be mentioned that only witches serve their Ifa with cock. When this Ifa appears at Ugbodu, immediate steps should be taken to prepare the Esu shine of the Ifa. The person will be told that his wife is a witch and that circumstances are likely to ma.k. e him become one himse.If. He should make sacrifice to be able to withstand and over~ come the evil machinations of his enemies, who are nothappy about his fame and fortune Ogunda Ofun s Lessons of a True Love Seke-seke se eke Eke kee Sika-sika se Ika Ika kaa Ara kii ro eke Okan osika 0 bale boro Aseni nse araa re lose Dia fun Orunmila Nijo ti seke-seke, sika-sika ati Aseni maa je omo Ikofaa re Ti Baba maa gba iwa bururu yii lowoo won Aliar lies His lies destroy himThe wicked one displays his wickedness His wickedness damages him There is no peace for a liar No security for the wicked, the treacherous one is doing untold harm to himself This is the declaration of the oracle to Orunmila When the liar, the wicked, and the treacherous are to become his students And when he is to purge them of these evil characters& * In De Profundis (meaning out of the deep), published in 1905, Oscar Wilde wrote: When | think about religion at all, | feel as if | would like to found an order for those who cannot believe: the Confraternity of the Fatherless one might call it, where on an altar, on which no taper burned, a priest, in whose heart peace had no dwelling, might celebrate with unblessed bread and a chalice empty of wine. **Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain& Such is a world that Orisa is becoming by continuing the refusal of looking inside the glass house of our heart& Alaye: In this Ese Ifa what is needed for all reading this to go line for line and meditate on its meaning. There are spiritual changes taking place now and everyone should be cognizant of what these energy changes are and how those changes will impact everyone& There is a take away here in this essay, which probably no one is considering at this time. Thus, more than likely are thinking that this is about strangers in our community who have done some form of evil. Ha ha he he it ain t about me& It could also be a warning to the world community that Ifa and Orisa through this ESE Ifa lesson, is to be considered a warning to the populace of changing their evil ways. However, the last thing that any of us are deliberating, is that Ifa and Orisa are asking each person reading this essay, to have less timidity and more courage, to look within their own spirit and mind; consequently asking the bigger question with a statement, | am the one who is the liar, | am the one who is wicked, or | am the one who is treacherous . Clearly, no one including myself, want to view themselves or see that we are doing harm to anyone including ourselves. 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