Oshe
Oshe family · a base sign of the diloggún
Description
The person of oshe is restless, sensitive, and straightforward, but can also be harsh, changeable, proud, disgusted, and prone to suffer contradictions, sorrow, and wars.
It is advisable for them to live prudently, do Ebó, respect the dead and the Orishas, and conduct themselves seriously so as not to turn envy, prison, and illness against themselves.
Born in this sign
- Collecting money for consultations.
- Skin cancer.
- Perfumes and odorous ointments.
- The schedule.
- The shackle.
- Exhumations.
- The prohibition of throwing the cowrie shell.
- The joints of human beings' joints.
- Silver and heavenly appearance.
Proverbs
- The wise man does not tell his best friend everything about himself, otherwise all his secrets will be revealed in the first fight or disagreement they have.
- The tongue is the scourge of the body, that is why the one who talks a lot makes many mistakes.
- In this life everything has its time.
Stories and patakíes
The smart lame man
Oshun, the owner of money, says that cunning is better than strength.
The lame man does not propose a fight, he uses his intelligence.
Obatalá was going to work a farm and what should he do so that the land would be fertile and there would be no problems?
He sacrificed money and feathers.
Ifá also asked him to offer 5 cages: of brass, lead, iron, silver, and copper.
And he gave them back afterward, so that he could store his fortune in them.
Obatalá said that he would buy a slave, and he bought the lame man, who could not do many things, but he spent his time observing his master closely.
One day, Obatalá's children arrived late at the farm.
They came blaming the parrots, because they were eating all the corn.
The lame man asked them if they could take him to the farm at dawn, before sunrise.
He asked Obatalá for a knife, and power so that the parrots would not fly again if he managed to make them touch the ground.
Baba promised him he would give them to him.
When it was about to dawn, they took the lame man to the farm.
He went into the cornfield and with the help of the knife, he began to cut the ears of corn
Then he said to the parrots
– Obatalá wants you all to get to the corn, but those who touch the ground will not rise again.
The parrots flew from the treetops toward the corn, but because the lame man had detached the ears, they fell to the ground.
Then he said to Obatalá's children:
– Now, go catch them!
They began to catch the parrots, covering them with cloth and putting them into the cages, until the five were full and they took them home.
Obatalá began to sell the parrots' red feathers and became rich.
The cowrie shell tells that from that day he sang happily
– Wealth comes from the farm, the children, all the blessings, come from the farm of the Orishas.
Lorita and the king
Oshun, goddess of love, says that there are more detractors than benefactors in the world, but they do not always get their way.
Lorita was the king’s favorite wife.
For her life to pass happily, the restless Elegguá told her to offer a sacrifice of money and the stool on which she sat, in addition to a plate of yam, so that she would never suffer from a disease of the buttocks, and so that no one close by could harm her.
Some time later, the envious ones secretly spread a magical ointment on her stool, and when lorita sat down, her feathers turned red, which caused her much pain.
– Why are you sad, lorita?, Her husband comforted her.
– What has succeeded, it is glorious!
When the annual festival of the district was approaching, the other wives of the king said that they all wanted to dance naked that year.
Lorita was very serious.
But the king insisted:
– Why are you sad?
Why are people going to see your red tail?
Well, you will be the first to dance, because in my eyes you look beautiful.
When the day finally came, the drums began to sound, and the king ordered:
– You will dance first.
When lorita began to undress and the wise orunla, who was present, saw her red tail, he immediately covered her with his cloak of 16 worlds, and said to the king:
– What does this mean?
This miracle is something that the king of Ara has never seen and that is why his life is not in order.
The king of ijero does not know him either and his life is a disaster.
None of the kings have seen anything like it and they have not been able to be happy.
However, you have it here in your house.
– Are you going to sell those feathers?
Ifá continued. – If you cannot give them away, would would you sell the feathers to the other kings so they can arrange their lives?
The sovereign sold each of the red feathers for 10,000 cowries.
Lorita became rich and so did her husband, because everyone wanted to have the feathers.
The lorita's defect became his blessing.
– Those who wanted to destroy me helped me, she said. – Oshun did not allow do me harm.
The cowrie says that detractors are not as few as benefactors.
Those who do good are much fewer, but there is never evil that good things should not fail to come.
The 16 signs of the Oshe family
Each combination of the diloggún with its entry:
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