Eyila tonti Okana

Description

The person of this sign is frank, proud when they become disordered, not very analytical, and capable of self-destructing what they build by talking too much, through stubbornness, or by not valuing their own people.

It is best for them to keep silent, do Ebó, respect the dead and the Orishas, and conduct themselves with prudence so that their work, their name, and their luck do not turn against them.

Born in this sign

• Eating meat. Men learned to eat meats and blood food.

Proverbs

• The dry straw says to the green one: when I end my life, you begin yours.
• Man is man's wolf.
• Good fortune comes and goes running.

Stories and patakíes

Obatala, the ologbo and the etu

The ologbo (the cat) was a merchant who had a lot of money, male and female servants, who were the etu (guineas).

One day the ologbo began to punish his female servants and whipped one of them, because of which the etu took off and took refuge in Obatala's house, and he, who was washing his face with water and soap, splashed her with the foam, and she, who was black, had her speckled feathers left with white spots.

Obatala, when he saw the etu, asked her: what happens to you that you are so frightened?

She told him everything bad she had lived through in the ologbo's house and asked him to be her godfather.

This was something Obatala accepted.

And so the etu stayed living in Obatala's house.

Obatala prepared a room for her to live there.

On the third day the ologbo showed up at Obatala's house asking for his servant, and Obatala answered him: I don't know anything about what you are telling me, come in so you can explain it to me better.

When the ologbo entered Obatala's house he saw an etu, but he did not recognize it as his own because of the spots in her feathers.

The cat said to him: baba, they have told me that three days ago one of my servants arrived at this house after leaving my house.

As Obatala had told the etu that he was her godfather, he told the ologbo, the only etu there is here is this one and she has lived here for a long time because she is my godchild.

The cat entered into a dispute with Obatala, not being able to prove anything, and Obatala claimed damages and losses and when they asked him what he wanted, he said: for every hair she has, I want a sack of gold.

From that came wealth to Obatala and ruin to the cat, who was a merchant.

Since then the guineas have white spots.

Note: the person is envied, and must take care with things that signify good qualities for them.

The curse and the butterfly

It was a young man who fell in love with the butterfly but never said anything to her and didn't know how to court her.

The butterfly was very flirty and was always flying from flower to flower; she had a whistle that she never let go of, for she carried it wherever she went.

One day the young man, who was the son of gunugun (the vulture), when he was heading to his usual work, saw the butterfly perched on a flower and, in a careless moment, stole her whistle to use it as blackmail and see if in that way the butterfly would accept him.

When he returned home he gave his mother gunugun the whistle so she could keep it for him.

The butterfly immediately realized the disappearance of her whistle, and Eshu, who was hiding among the weeds, came out in her defense and said to her: the thief of your talisman was the vulture's son, but you have to go to Orunmila's house so he can prevent a lamentable misfortune.

The butterfly, who was capricious, did not pay attention to Eshu's warning, so she did not go to get a reading with Orunmila; what she did was start watching the vulture's house, and when she saw that the vulture's son had left, she knocked on the door and spoke with the vulture and told her that her son had stolen her whistle and demanded that she return it, and the frightened vulture returned it to her.

When the vulture's son returned from his work he thought to carry out his plans to attract the butterfly, so he asked his mother for the whistle.

She answered him: the butterfly came to claim it, accusing you of being a thief, and I gave it to her.

The son became upset and showed grave disrespect toward his mother, saying to her: who told you to hand the whistle over to the butterfly, you are imprudent and brazen.

And the vulture's son, seeing himself defrauded in his aspirations, began to curse himself, saying, I hope I never have a fixed place, I hope that when I find my food it is already rotten, I hope everyone despises me for being stinky.

At that moment Obatala was entering the vulture's house and when he heard the young man cursing himself he said to him: son, so it shall be.

To iban Eshu.

The butterfly, who had left the vulture's house very happy because she had recovered her whistle and was returning along the road, and Eshu, when he saw her, understood that she had not gone to get a reading with Orunmila because she was disobedient and, feeling mocked, he thought of giving her what she deserved.

In this some young men were moving along the road and Eshu pointed her out to them; they armed themselves with sticks and chased her from flower to flower until they killed her.

Note: it marks disrespect and disregard for the mother.

The person uses bad arts to win a woman's favors.

When the person does not achieve his goals he curses himself, so he is behind.

The person is incredulous and does not hear advice.

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.