Eyioko tonti Metanla

Description

The person of eyioko tonti metanla is usually reserved, proud, sensitive to envy and conflict, with a tendency toward imprudence, arrogance, and to carry burdens because of bad company.

It is advisable to keep modesty, listen to one’s elders, respect the dead and the Orishas, do Ebó, and conduct oneself with sobriety, honesty, and prudence in order to stay well.

Born in this sign

• 1. The umbrella.
• 2. The ceremony of the iyabo in the river.
• 3. The law of karma.
• 4. The duel between men.
• 5. The reason why the iyawo goes to the river and brings an otá.
• 6. Itutu.

Proverbs

• The king is dead, long live the king.
• The eye of god watches you when you do evil.
• The evil you do to your fellow man comes back to you by the hand of them.
• He who believes a friend is weak is like he who believes that a spark does not make a fire.
• In a closed mouth, flies do not enter.
• The tormented makes his victim inflexible.

Stories and patakíes

Because the iyawo goes to the river and brings back an ota

Orunmila had a son who was called igba omi odo, who was the favorite of Oshun and was always at the river.

One day Orunmila needed water from the river to win the war he had with alesesi (spirit of the water) and when he went to go look for her he saw igba omi odo dead in the river and horrified he turned back to the home and did osode and this Ifa came out, which marked Ebbo for him.

Orunmila did Ebbo and took a gourd or clay jar and sent an iyawo who was his godchild to bring him water from the river and to take from the bottom of the river the head of igba omi odo.

When the iyawo went to take the head, what he took out was an ota, so Orunmila took the ota and put it inside the igba in memory of his son and decorated it with ileke ni gbogbo Orisha, asho meyi, koide meyi thus from then on remaining the ceremony that the iyawo go to the river to look for the spirit of igba omi odo (the secret of the gourd is prepared with water).

River treatise

The action of taking the iyawo to the river symbolizes in our religion the breaking with the past, that is, with the whole life of the iyawo and open a new path to the neophyte, that path being represented by the current of the water carrying away the iyawo's old clothes.

This is born in a myth, the first son of Orunmila and of Oshun who went to the river was igba omi odo and he got lost in the river and in it he died, therefore when the iyawo bathes and looks in the river for the ota that he takes home it symbolizes the representation or the spirit of that first iyawo igba omi odo offered to the river.

Today that ota is not offered any offering; it is only kept in the clay jar of the river, but it is a custom of the iyawos that still survives among some iworos from matanzas to keep this ota in a particularly decorated guiro or little guiro, feeding this ota along with Orunmila and Oshun.

To this ota the last drops of eyerbale of Oshun and Orunmila are given.

The musician brothers

There was once two brothers who were musicians and lived in the countryside, one day at the town festival they made a lot of money, one thousand cowrie shells each, which was the money they paid in those times.

On the way back the older brother killed the younger one and buried him in the hinterland near the house.

When the older brother got to his house the parents asked him about the younger brother and he told them that he had stayed in town having fun.

The parents were satisfied for the moment but time passed and the boy did not regresaba.

The worry grew as the days passed and they saw that their son did not arrived.

The mother cried her loss.

She was an osanyinist gatherer of herbs.

One day he went out looking for a plant he needed, he approached a place where the same one was found, but as he went to uproot it it spoke to him saying: don't uproot me, mother, because I am a plant that was born in the earth, I earned one thousand cowrie shells, my brother also earned one thousand and he killed me to keep everything.

The woman broke out in tears and, shouting, arrived home and told her husband what had happened.

Together they ran to the place and the woman showed him which herb it was.

When the husband went to pull it, it spoke to him and said: don't uproot me, father, because I am a plant that was born in the earth, I won a thousand cowrie shells, my brother won a thousand too and he killed me for keeping everything.

The father was impacted by these words, then both of them recovered and went to tell the king what had happened, and he set off together with them toward the place to make sure if what the parents of the buried boy said was true.

When the king arrived he did the same operation of wanting to pull up the plant and it said to him: king, do not pick me up for I am a plant that was born in the earth, I won a thousand cowrie shells, my brother won a thousand too and he killed me for keeping everything.

When the king finished hearing these words, indignant, he ordered the elder brother arrested, the same king looked for him and sentenced him to the death penalty.

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