Eyila tonti Metanla

Description

He is an open, proud person with a strong character, but also stubborn, jealous, hurtful, and given to arguing, so he can lose positions, security, and clarity if he does not control himself.

It is best for him to speak little, respect the elders, stay away from alcohol and bad company, pay his promises, and conduct himself with prudence, relying on Ebó and on respect for Orisha and the dead.

Born in this sign

• Carpentry and the cutting down of trees.

Proverbs

• He twists the rope, but he cannot twist the earth.

Stories and patakíes

The cedar, the majagua, and the ax

Tale

In the earliest times of the world, all the trees were virgin and did not know their destinies, and the cedar, even though it was not of very good taste, went to Orunmila’s feet.

Orunmila ordered that if a traveler came asking them for a favor, they should not give him shelter.

The cedar made Ebbo with an aikordie and an ax and owo la mello, eku, eya, epo, and that then he should put the ax to Oggun.

After a short time the traveler arrived and told the cedar to please give him shelter; the cedar answered that it could not host him.

Then he went to see the majagua, who also answered that it was impossible for her.

He consulted with several trees and none served him, but the traveler went back to speak with the majagua, who believed him more than Orunmila and gave it to him.

He went at once to a blacksmith’s house, and with the branches the majagua gave him he made four axes.

The traveler, with the axes, began to cut down the trees, starting with the majagua itself.

From then on the power belongs to the ax for cutting down all these bushes.

The full entry is in the app

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