Odi
Odi family · a base sign of the diloggún
Description
The person of odi is usually deep, restless, sensual, and ambivalent: they may show nobility and organizational ability, but also vice, jealousy, deceit, and instability.
It is advisable for them to live prudently, respect eggun and the Orishas, take care of their conduct, and seek spiritual cleansing with Ebó and discipline.
Born in this sign
- May the children of Oshún always wear the bangles.
- Ibú iyumú who lives in the depths of the rivers.
- Fright.
- The color black, red, yellow and the variegated colors.
- The female reproductive organs are born.
- Whales.
- Hens.
- Rats.
- Goats.
- The fish of the sea.
- The caiman.
- The cowrie shells.
- The almiqui.
- Corn.
- The pumpkin.
- The cells.
- Malice.
- The law of karma.
- The grains.
Proverbs
- If you are not vicious, someone is for you.
- One can repent of one's past actions, but one has to put up with the consequences.
- White ants tried but cannot devour the rock.
- He who speaks slander of others, lowers his own prestige.
Stories and patakíes
Longed-for peace
Orishaoco, the owner of the land, was worried about the black clouds that foreshadowed disaster over his Ilé.
The chiefs of ifón and ejigbo lived in discord.
The farmers of the area watched war.
Seeing him so serious, ochosi, the hunter, approached him and putting an arm around his shoulders said:
– Do not torture yourself orishaoco, the two chiefs secretly want peace, and Obatalá, king of peace, is going to grant it.
Both rulers consulted with eleguá, the messenger of the gods, to seek a solution.
Each one had to offer money, feathers and 7 slugs in sacrifice.
– It is true that I disagree with the chief of ifón, answered the chief of ejigbo, – but the discord has not spread to the town.
The other chief also admitted the dispute.
Eleguá told them that they should make peace privately.
– Chief of ifón, someone will come to visit you in 7 days, the diviner announced, who also let the chief of ejigbo know that in 7 days Obatalá he would visit ifón.
– What should I offer him?, Asked the chief of ejigbo.
– The she-goat you were going to sacrifice, take it there.
The she-goat of either of the two chiefs that enters his house will signal the end of the discord with the other.
When he arrived in the city of ifón, the she-goat of the chief of ejigbo entered the house where Obatalá was staying, but that of the chief of ifón also entered.
Happy with the sign, they settled the dispute by eating and drinking together.
Their lives were put in order and the destiny of their towns was ordered again.
Cowrie shell says that olocum is the mouth of the horse; the drum is played with the two hands and two hips do not have a mouth that can speak like a person.
Obatalá is great
One day, pala went to consult Elegguá because he wanted to have children and did not have a wife.
A little later, a mature woman went to visit the diviner with the same request.
The one who opens the roads recommended to both of them that they offer money, a copper cymbal, and a hen, which they were to sacrifice to their head.
The woman arrived at the market first, and bought the only cymbal and the only hen the merchants had brought to sell that day.
Then pala arrived, and seeing that there were no more cymbals or hens at the market, he tried to buy them from the woman, but she answered that she was not interested in selling them.
He insisted, and they began to fight.
Just then Elegguá arrived and asked them what the problem was.
Each one told him their version of the story.
– Aha!, Said Elegguá, – Obatalá is bigger than the two of you put together.
Woman, this one will be your husband.
Pala, look at your future wife.
And he took them to baba.
Obatalá told them to sit down, and he touched their forehead with a coconut and with the copper cymbal the woman had bought at the market.
Then he sacrificed the hen to their heads.
– Children, he said, – go to sleep together.
That is your wife and this one, your husband.
And as if it were a game, pala's house filled up with children.
The cowrie shell tells that his wife kept giving birth, and the two never stopped blessing the Orishas.
The 16 signs of the Odi family
Each combination of the diloggún with its entry:
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.