Iroso tonti Iroso

Description

Awake, distrustful, and very observant person, with a past of stumbles, envy, and trials; they may be good-hearted but somewhat impulsive, and need to think with the head and not with the heart.

It is best for them to move prudently, not trust secrets, respect the Orishas and the dead, do Ebó, and attend to Elegguá, Obatalá, Oshún, and the earth in order to open the road and avoid losses.

Born in this sign

• Humility.
• Mortuary pits.
• The spirit of ozun.
• The hole.
• The spirit of odudua called akole, who is the watchman.
• The ituto rite.
• The firefly.
• The bowel of Osanyin.
• Covering the iyawo’s eyes when taking him to the room of the santo.
• The osun naburu.

Proverbs

• There are those who gouge out one eye to see another blind.
• Nobody knows what is in the bottom of the sea.
• The one who gave birth straight gave birth hunchbacked.
• If a bird wants to peck at the pringamaza, it must arm itself with a spike of steel.
• When the eagle lives, the loose canary does not attain the name of ogba.
• The sturdy hammer marks the floor with its head.

Stories and patakíes

The path of the two soldiers

It happened that there were two soldiers from a court, but one of them was envious and the other was content, and when the first one asked the king for something, he always gave him two of the things he asked for and one was for the other, and this annoyed the envious one because when he asked the king for something, he always gave him one, and it was because the king knew that this man was very envious.

One day the king said to his assistant, let's have a little fun with those two soldiers, and right away they were sent for and he told them: well, I have sent for you so that you can ask for whatever you want, but one thing is, today the one who gets to ask is you, pointing to the envious one.

He was thrilled because it was his turn to ask first instead of his friend; but then he thought: what shall I ask for?

Because every time I ask for something for myself, this one gets twice what I ask for, so if I ask for a horse, this one will get two, and if I ask to be king this one will be king of kings; what shall I ask for?

He began to think until he said to himself; well I will ask them to take out one of my eyes and then they will take out both of this one’s; he will be blind and they will send him to live in the town of the blind, where I will be king.

Right away he said

Well what I want is for them to take out one of my eyes.

The king laughed and everyone looked at one another; then the king said: so it shall be done and to his friend they would take out both eyes.

San lazaro, who knew what was happening, told Olofin everything and he came and told the king who had authorized him to do that, and he blinded him by banishing him to live in the town of the blind.

Immediately afterward he ordered that the two soldiers be brought before him, and he said to the envious one: you wanted to be king, well, you will be king "Ara guardele kuan akufo", there you will rule and your friend will live at the bottom of the sea, where everything that that town does will have to pay tribute to him; but this I do tell you, if you reveal that secret, you will be blind and imprisoned in the depths of the sea, where your friend is king and will watch over the lives of the people you rule and so as not to unleash his wrath, you will have to pay him tribute.

Because of the betrayal you have done, you will be a fatal king, because your friend from far away and without sight will rule your people, because he who was born upright, was born standing, by command of eni Olofin and your kingdom will be prison and desperation because only one man will save a people.

Note

There are those who give one eye to see another blind one.

The way of office

There was a mother who was very sad, because the king had ordered two of her sons to occupy posts as governors in distant provinces and neither the first nor the second had reached their destination.

The king appointed the woman’s third son to go occupy the post and avenge the disappearance of his two brothers.

On this occasion the mother did not want the son to go, because he was the only one she had left, but he told her; do not despair, mother, nothing will happen to me, for before departing I will go for consultation so it will indicate to me what I must do.

A head rogation was marked for him and that he should be taken to the sea, so that in this way he could free himself from his enemies.

The man did so and afterward departed with the retinue that accompanied him, which was designated by the king.

When they arrived at a twisting place where they had to cross through a cave, without realizing it he went in first, an opportunity his companions took advantage of to block the cave entrance, since beforehand they had sealed the exit from it, leaving him alone inside there, with the certainty that he would die of hunger and thirst.

At night a great storm formed and as the sea was very close to the cave, the large waves formed struck the cave entrance, moving the heavy rock that closed it, thus allowing our character to get out of there and after much walking, guided by the people of those places, reach his destination; taking charge of the government of that province.

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