Odi tonti Eyioko

Description

This is a maternal, sociable, and family-oriented person, very well known and surrounded by people, who can stand out in the community and receive advice and trust, although they are also dreamy, imaginative, reserved, and prone to gossip, stubbornness, and embarrassments.

It is advisable for them to begin a new life with humility, fulfill what they promise, respect the dead and the Orishas, pay their debts, take care of their reputation, and make Ebó and offerings to maintain firmness.

Born in this sign

• Olokun’s face masks.
• The children.

Proverbs

• Whoever’s turn it is dies.
• Everyone who finds beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
• No one dies when they want to, but when it is their turn.
• The dog that has a bone in its mouth cannot howl.
• The little one becomes big.
• Smoke rules the world well.

Stories and patakíes

How riches came

Orunmila asked Olofin for permission to put the world in order and by means of his virtue, that the trees, the women and the animals would give birth, and everything was a great happiness.

After a long time Orunmila received a great gift from everyone, and riches and commerce came.

Abaniku the jackal

It happened once that a jackal arrived in a city situated on the edge of the jungle.

As soon as the dogs of the city discovered the jackal, they rushed at him barking.

The jackal was so frightened that, fleeing from the dogs in one leap, he entered the house of a dyer, and since he was blind with terror, he did not see where he was going and fell into a large vat full of indigo blue that the dyer had prepared.

With great difficulty, the jackal managed to get out of the dye vat and settled down to wait for his end, trembling with anguish and fear before the dogs.

But the dogs drew back.

Before them they did not see the jackal they had been chasing; before them there appeared something disconcerting: a blue jackal.

The dogs tucked their tails between their legs and left.

The jackal took advantage of the opportunity and fled to the jungle.

From that adventure, he was turned into a blue jackal, for the indigo dye had set well into his body.

All the animals of the jungle, when they saw him pass drew back in terror.

They had never seen in the jungle an animal like him, even the tiger, the panther, the bears and the wolves fled at the sight of the jackal.

They all said, woe to us, where will that unknown being come from.

We do not know how strong and powerful he may be, who knows if he will kill us all.

The jackal took advantage of the opportunity that presented itself to him when he saw that everyone feared him, and he set about thinking about the way to extract profit from this situation.

He called the animals that fled disconcertedly before him and said to them: do not flee, do not fear me.

The god of the animals has called me this night before his presence and has said this to me, since the animals have no king, he has chosen me to reign over my brothers of the jungle.

Thus it was that the jackal remained as king of all the animals, and his nickname was abaniku.

When abaniku had said this, the animals approached him.

The striped-skin tiger spoke humbly in the name of all, saying: lord and sovereign, give us orders and we will obey you.

He gave each animal an office with the exception of those of his own kind, whom he banished without giving any explanation.

The jackal lived without worries and amidst abundance.

The tiger and the other beasts went hunting and brought him the best pieces, placing them at his feet, but he distributed them as becomes a good sovereign, giving a part to each animal of his court.

One day while in the council of state, he heard in the distance the complaining howl of some jackals, abaniku was left frozen in place, his whole blue skin bristling.

His eyes filled with tears and before he could think about what he was doing, a shrill howl slipped out of him, in response to the distant jackals.

The tiger and all the other animals shuddered and said: it is the howl of a jackal, a miserable jackal.

Nosha deceived us, they murmured the other animals, who until then had been his subjects.

Immediately after that they attacked him furiously, killed him, and devoured him.

Note

He who renounces his friends and makes friends with strangers will die like abaniku the jackal.

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