Okana tonti Metanla

Description

This person is critical, neglectful in their affairs, strong-willed and sometimes bad-tempered; they can appear quarrelsome, talk too much, lean toward the spiritual, and carry setbacks if they do not correct themselves.

It is advisable to attend to their saints and the dead, fulfill promises, live prudently, respect elders, avoid liquor, and conduct themselves with order so that quarrels and bad company do not destroy them.

Born in this sign

• Drought.

Proverbs

• The boss who lets himself get careless is killed so they can take away his position.
• The sound of the hoe turns the forest into food.
• When a woman picks up a hoe, the man cannot take her place away.
• It is baptized above and respected below.
• The one who does good and does bad for himself does.

Stories and patakíes

Where obbatala changed the white clothes for the black ones

There were two brothers who always argued and one of them, who was dressed in white, told the other: that as long as his guardian angel did not want it, there was no one who could kill him.

And the other told him: that obbatala was the one who ordered it.

Such was the extent of the rancor between both brothers that one of them goes to obbatala and tells him what the other brother had said.

And obbatala answered this one, in three days you invite him to go to the forest and at once you send for Oshosi and order him that in three days the two of you will go to the forest, and the one who was dressed in black was the individual to take his life.

And the brother son of baba invites the other to go to the forest.

But this one rogated his head and the other brother tells him: let's go, and they leave together.

When they reach the middle of the road he invites him to change clothes and he accepts, and Oshosi, with the watchword he had, hurls at the black-clad one, where the other brother, as advised, goes hurriedly to where obbatala and tells him what happened.

To which obbatala he said to him: that as long as the guardian angel did not want it, there was no one who could kill him.

One.

The black bird

The black bird was the Oba of all the birds, but through his carelessness he lost the government and right away they put one of his own in power for their convenience, but shortly after the Oba of those lands otoku and they were left without a chief and without government and everything began to go wrong and they could not agree on finding another Oba.

Shortly after, the black bird passed through those lands again and the beasts, when they saw him, called him and said to him: who better than you to govern us and be our Oba, since you have already governed us before, we name you again.

Note

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

The full entry is in the app

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