Eyila tonti Odi

Description

The person of this sign is very dreamy, maternal, curious, and sensitive, but can also be too quiet, stubborn, tempted by excesses, and prone to gossip, infidelity, and misunderstandings.

It is best for them to keep a clear mind, speak prudently, do Ebó, respect the dead and the Orishas, and conduct themselves with humility, patience, and goodness.

Born in this sign

• May the word of Orunmila never fall to the ground.

Proverbs

• The Orishas teach me how to live.
• Health, divine treasure.
• Black does not become white.

Stories and patakíes

The corn harvester

There was a corn harvester who sold cooked corn and nobody had corn except him.

This harvester had a lot of money and suddenly he became seriously ill.

He was told to do Ebbo with: 4 sacks of corn, rooster and hen.

But he did not want to do it, because he preferred to put eight sacks of money instead of four of corn.

By not doing the Ebbo he became even sicker.

His family behind his back did the head rogation and afterward the corn was distributed to everyone.

However, in the end everyone had health and the harvester lacked it for having not believed.

Orunmila's word never falls to the ground

One day a hunter went to see Orunmila so that he would do a reading for him, and Orunmila told him that in order to keep hunting he had to do Ebbo.

Since the hunter had another belief, he did not pay attention, and he was only animated by the desire to look down on Orunmila, so he went out hunting and managed to catch a beautiful porcupine.

When the hunter returned to the town he began to say that Orunmila had made a mistake and that he was a chatterbox.

Then all his friends met and prepared a great banquet.

When they were at the table, the enemy chief of Orunmila, in order to belittle him, sent a message with the commissioner inviting him to the party.

Orunmila sent word that even though he had managed to catch the porcupine, no one would manage to eat it because the table would remain set due to the hunter's disobedience.

They did not pay attention to him, and the one who presided over the table, according to custom, was the one who broke the food first and served himself; he did so, broke off a piece of the animal and put it on a plate for himself.

When he put it in his mouth, as he was chewing it, a piece of the spear with which they hunted it got stuck in the roof of his mouth; it had broken off and had remained inside the animal's flesh.

Through the wound that was made, abundant blood began to flow without the hemorrhage being stopped, and he died instantly.

There, due to the scare that occurred, the people could no longer eat and the table remained set.

When Orunmila's children learned of what happened, they organized another party and went out singing, saying that Orunmila's word never falls to the ground.

Note: the one who provided the porcupine to punish the hunter's disobedience was Eshu-ni.

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.