Obara tonti Ofun

Description

The person of obara tonti ofun lives among trials, distrust, arbitrariness, and family tensions, but also has the skill to serve, help, uphold oaths, and earn respect over time.

It is advisable for them to be prudent, not lie or be stubborn, take care of their words and conduct, attend to their dead and Orishas, and make Ebó for their peace, health, and protection.

Born in this sign

• The nervousness.
• The reason Obatala cannot eat salt.
• The cramp.
• The hunchbacks.

Proverbs

• One takes a purgative and another feels the effect.
• Two rams do not drink from the same spring.

Stories and patakíes

The offering of the eleguede

On this path, when Obatala came to earth, the first thing he did was to consult to know his fortune and destiny.

And he was advised to offer a lot of salt inside a pumpkin together with a white cloth, and Obatala asked:

– Why should I make this offering?

– So as not to find misfortune on earth.

The diviner answered him.

Obatala did not want to do the Ebbo and went back to his house and there he received many visits.

Early at dawn everyone had already left, except Eshu who slipped inside the house without anyone seeing him, Obatala was fast asleep, Eshu took the pumpkin that Obatala did not want to offer and fixed it on his back, covering it with a white cloth.

When Obatala woke up he found that he had an enormous hump on his back and everyone wondered how this deformity had come about and after bothering him with their curiosity they left and from then on they refused to meet with him.

At last Eshu came to see Obatala and told him you refused to offer a pumpkin therefore you will always be hunchbacked, you refused to offer salt so you will never eat it.

Note

That is why there are hunchbacks and Obatala's offerings do not carry salt.

The full entry is in the app

Prayer, attributes, keys, conduct and advice, health, works and ebó, and more patakíes of this sign in Signos del Caracol.