About the Sacrifice / EBO with the Duck (PPIY, Abo Ppye):

Teaching given by the Spirit Tata G, Emissary of Baba Oddw at Egb dn

Olfin,
When a duck is sacrificed, it is recommended that you see the duck's eyes, and
you will ask the duck, because the Duck talks to Olfin run about what has
been asked from the heart and purity of the people. Then it is desirable that
everyone who saw the duck eyes to clean the eyes with Coconut, and pass 3
times the coconut over the eyes, and then a spin around the head, and then
the coconut should be thrown to roll down the street. This is to clean the strong
eye effect of the eyes of the duck on people, because the eyesight of the duck
is very strong. The esoteric side about this is that the duck speaks and tells
everything, so the sound that the duck makes of "Quaquack". That is the
reason why they cut in the windpipe of the duck during the ritual sacrifice.
Note by AWO Ifalenu: The old way of doing the Ebo with Duck as revealed by
Baba Oddw is to bite off the trachea of the duck by the Priest during the
EBO Ritual and to put that trachea over the OTA (Sacred Stone) of the R.
Usually among the Yoruba-Lukumi practitioners in the Diaspora, the custom is
to cover with a big leaf like Taro leaf (Malanga/ Taro root/ Colocasia esculenta)
over the eyes of duck during the EBO in the Yoruba-Lukumi tradition.
The person who does not asks the divine with the whole Heart and with purity,
that person should not expect that the duck will transmit the message directly
to Olofin run (The creator GOD), that is why almost all now do this part of the
EBO with the Duct without knowing the reason behind it and they cover the
eyes of the Duct.
The Duck usually is given to Yemoyale /Yemoja, to Agana Eri, to Olokun, to
Olosa.