Odi tonti Metanla

Description

The person of this sign is usually dreamy, fanciful, proud, jealous, very talkative, and at times violent, with little faith, a tendency to stubbornness, and to getting tangled up in conflicts, gossip, and bad company.

It is best for him/her to act prudently, respect elders, attend to the deceased and the Orishas, make Ebó, and correct his/her way of proceeding to avoid losses, deceit, and misfortunes.

Born in this sign

• The reason those who yoko Osha dress in white for a year.
• The reason the bat sleeps with its head down.
• That the man be killed for the first time.
• The presentation of the iyawos to the drum.
• Isalaye Oduduwa.

Proverbs

• There is no divine justice on earth.
• To live in peace it is more necessary to hide merits than faults.
• He who applauds the acts of a wicked man is of his own kind.

Stories and patakíes

The kingdom of Yemaya

Yemaya was queen of a land in which neither sickness nor death was known.

She had a sister called Oshun who lived very far away from there and for a long time Yemaya had had no news of her.

One day Oshun appeared asking her for help because she was sick with the lungs and very poor.

Yemaya gave her shelter and managed to cure her illness.

After a short time Yemaya had to visit a very distant land and told Oshun that she had to be absent from her kingdom for some time and that she had decided to leave her in charge of it until her return.

She told her that in that palace there was a fountain whose waters contained the secret of life, from which all her subjects drank, so they were authorized to use the water and for that reason those people knew neither sickness nor death.

A few days later Oshun began to throw parties in the palace, which turned into lavish bacchanals; she also forbade the subjects to keep using the water from the fountain, so that they would not find out about the orgies and sins.

The people of the town began to fall ill and to die.

One day Shango came by there and, seeing that disaster and inquiring what was happening, went to look for Yemaya and told her everything that was happening in her absence.

Yemaya immediately set out on her return and upon entering her kingdom she found her subjects gathered, who, having learned of her return, had gone out to meet her.

Yemaya then began to dance and sing:

Ibobefe eyi boreo aglona mirawa

Ibobefe eyi boreo aglona mirawa.

And thus singing and dancing she reached her palace followed by her people.

After reproaching Oshun for her disloyal and vicious attitude she expelled her from the kingdom.

The lesson of Oggun

There was a man who was Shango's son but his father could no longer put up with him because he knew a lot and wanted to know more.

Then Shango handed him over to orunla so that he could receive good advice on the condition that for everything he had to count on Shango or otherwise he would take his complaints to Eshu and Oggun.

That man liked other men's women very much and one day he became rudely involved with the woman who was Oshun's daughter.

She in turn told her husband, who was Oggun, and he began to watch him.

Oggun's wife went one day to the market to buy ishu, eleguede and oguede, where Shango's son came to mess with her again, trying to grab her by the arms, but then Oggun arrived and Shango's son, when he saw him, showed him a necklace of his father's and told Oggun in a bold way: my father is Shango, he is king, and I, because I am his son, am a prince.

Oggun thought: this is the one Shango told me about, and he asked him: why do you mess with the wives of other men?, To which Shango's son answered him:

– Defend her yourself, dirty old man, if you can.

Immediately Oggun drew out his ada and ran after Shango's son in full view of the women, running faster than a deer.

In his mad dash he reached the forest tangled up with the eleguede vines that had been planted, falling to the ground and shouting:

– Don't kill me, I'm not going to do it again.

From today on I will respect all the women and men of the path.

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.