Odi tonti Ogunda

Description

This is a dreamy, imaginative person, very sharp in speech, but can also be impulsive, aggressive, distrustful, and prone to entanglements of betrayal, gossip, and discord.

It is advisable for them to make Ebó, take care of their tongue, respect their dead and the Orishas, stay away from alcohol, violence, and other people’s secrets, and conduct themselves prudently so as not to fall into fights, losses, or misfortune.

Born in this sign

• The ilu drum, messenger of the kings.
• The lighting of candles in darkness.
• The recording of the voice.
• The distraction of sight and the clouds.
• The trap and the lie.

Proverbs

• A debt to the dead is bad food.
• He who is watched does not escape.

Stories and patakíes

The Ebbo did not arrive in time

There was a young man whose mother liked to sing and dance with a little drum that she had, but the son had already warned her not to play that little drum anymore, but the mother did not pay attention and when her son did not see her she went to a garden with the young men she invited and there she celebrated her parties without the son finding out.

One day the son had a dream with the egguns and told it to his mother and then he went to get a reading and Ebbo was marked for him with: malaguidi meyi (okuni y obini), two ilu keke and the other ingredients.

The young man left quickly with the Ebbo but by then his mother had already gone to the garden to celebrate her party with the young men, as usual, where the egguns beat her, and she began to call her son but he did not hear her because he was carrying the Ebbo, but since it did not arrive in time the egguns broke her leri and as a consequence of the blows she died.

The distraction of sight and the clouds is born

When Olofin was king of ife, he had a sacred goat, this one had four eyes, two eyes in front and two behind, the first ones were called akole (guard of things), the two behind akode (guard outside).

This goat symbolically is none other than the sun, which guards the world by Olofin, it is called baba un kusi (celestial goat).

One day Olofin convokes all his subjects and tells them: you see that goat, it is mine, it will be the one that will command you.

You will not be able to do anything against it, whatever you do, it will tell me, for that it has two eyes in front and two behind, which allow it to see all things at once.

Elegba, understanding the words, said that he knew well what he had to do so that the goat would not know.

At that moment a serious discussion arose with Olofin and his interceptor, everyone gave him the reason, in the end Elegba, before leaving, pronounced these words: I am Elegba, the one who likes to do anything in front or behind your goat without it knowing, it will not know it even if it possesses four eyes and Olofin pretends that it can see everything.

Elegba went to get a reading and odi ogunda came out for him, and it marked Ebbo with four-color fabric, white, black, red, and blue, to make a hat with it, four small earth heads, four hens, four goats (the animals are sacrificed to the four winds and with the cloth a four-color hat is made).

He did everything, hung an Osanyin of odi ogunda from it and the four heads of mud tied with the pieces of cloth, the color of the cloth was white to the east, black to the west, blue to the south and red to the north.

Then Elegba said

What are you to know if this works and Olofin does not find out anything.

You are going to kill Olofin's first wife, put on the hat and it will be fulfilled.

Elegba puts it on and already on the way he meets the sacred he-goat, this sees in front of him a white cap, behind a black one, to the left a red one and to the right a blue one and thinks they are four different people.

Elegba discovers Olofin's first wife in the forest cutting ewé to wrap the eko, he cuts off her head, the he-goat sees the crime and runs to tell Olofin that a red man with a hat has killed his wife.

Olofin entrusts the search to his subjects, but as they were on the sides and behind they saw the hat of another color and insist that Elegba be released.

The he-goat itself recognizes its error, but those who saw the white one maintained their accusation with force, a dispute that degenerates into war of accusers and defenders, as the battle was great, Elegba with a powerful blow kills the king's prime minister and those who were to his right saw it, but the others could not see the scene from the same angle.

The dispute becomes about the color of the cap and about who had killed Olofin's first wife and his prime minister.

Elegba walks away, and goes where the king and tells him: call everyone for tomorrow morning.

The king called everyone for that hour, Elegba took the word and said: the other day I spoke about the ignorance of the he-goat with two pairs of eyes, so much so that he did not say that it was Elegba who did this.

Now then, I killed your main wife and your first minister and no one agreed on the hat that I wore and whether it was I or not, your subjects can assure you of what I am telling you, this sacred he-goat can give you great teachings and advice, but in this adventure it was useless.

The king learned the lesson to a large extent and said to Elegba

You have told the truth, you have the right to eat the four-eyed he-goat that sees everything.

Having said this, the clouds covered the sun, from then on he-goat is given to Elegba.

It is for this reason that thanks to the four cardinal points Elegba was able to obtain the victory.

The full entry is in the app

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