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O O O O 0 0 0 0 Oyekun Meyi

Baba Oyekun meyi ariku madawa eyo ogun sigun mete pororo yawn eni fo un Babalawo adifafun Ogbe Oluno agogo, abo lebo. Oyekun Meyi is a female Oddun. Is daughter of women Oyantaro and Omilushe, but is unknown how they conceived her. Oyekun Meyi is the oldest of all the signs of ifa because he was born long before the other signs. Oyekun meyi was who introduced Iku in this world and all the souls deaths and resurrection depends on him. He represents lisaju, occident, the night and death. He is who takes care of the funerals rites (itutu), and he has his daughter Oyekun Bika as assistant. Here is where the twins speak (the spirits of the twins) Who is one and incarnate itself in two different bodies. The secret of Oduduwa. The knots of the woods. The Scale of the alligator. They suffer paludism, Sanguin Filaria, of the stomach. They die because of an argument. The Elegua of this Oddun carry two knifes trimmed in opposite directions. They say that Elegbara was born under this sign which marks long life, but with the condition that never resign to make ebo. This person should never go alone in the bushes. Oyekun Meyi is the godfather of Iroso-sa, the owner of the shells. Here men learned to eat fish. He was the one who brought to the earth the secret of Orun. The son of this ifa escapes illness and accidents. His enemies never defeated him. We can't eat pork, because the virtue of Oyekun Meyi is to offer roasted elede to his guide protector. You shouldn't dress like anybody or in red. Oyekun Meyi is synchronized with the hairy spider. When the hairy spider sings. They say she revives death and is when Oyekun Meyi manifests himself. Here the trees made Ebo to prevent been cut with: Akuko Meyi, Adie Meyi dun dun, eku meyi, agada meyi, eko meyi, itu meyi eskijo meyi, opo;opo owo. Signalize the directions of the social movements. The royalty, the plentiful.
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Here was born the atemoleta. The ebo of this sing go to a house in ruins, for the spirit that lives there accompanied him. The ebo also can go buried in a joro joro to the foot of a dried stick or a dried tree. Announces distancement of the godchildren. You always do your ebo this way you won't loose your luck. Don't talk to anyone about your personal affairs. Here was where bashfulness was born. This is why humans began to cover themselves with grass, their private parts first with leaves then with skin until nowadays with clothes. The medicine of Oyekun Meyi, is the bottle of oni adie (honey of the earth) to who we pray this ifa? We put it seven in sun and we take it in spoonfuls while fasting. We put Orumila a knife (machete) alfange type made of wood. Speak of people that are always well dressed and taking care of their looks. You can't tell women you secrets, because they will break their oath. To maintain Power: We put inside of an Igba a eya tutu anointed in epo and we put it in front of ozain. We make a Sarayeye with a Osiadie Jabado, we quarter it alive and we throw it inside the Igba. We give Obi Omi tututo Ozain and we carry it to the bush. We put roasted pork to Egun and later take a bath with water of roses. Ebo to Lengthen Life: Six etu, six mandarias, owo la mefa. After the ebo the mandarrias goes upon the lfa. Eshu Bode: This is the keeper of Egun. This is who accompanied the Eguns. To Make it: The mass of the load is thrown over a small mirror. Load: Earth of a graveyard, azoque, 9grasses of Ozain of Egun, marpacifico, algarrobo, albahaca, artemisa, maravilla, salvador, rompe camisa, quita maldicion, espanta muerto, (aberikunlo), three strong lqui: rompe huesos, Ramon and bobo, root of ceiba of moruro, of pine, 9 iwereyeye, 9 atare, 9seeds of maravillas, inle of the four corners of the ile, iye of eleri and shinbones of egun mokekere, I inkin ofe, eleri of akuko, eyele of egun. We wrap all in asho dun dun and fun fun and we cover it with cement. Carry three knifes with a juju of alakaso each one of them, the eyes and mouth with turned shells. The ikeko carries the following atena of egun painted in the botton and in the inner part.
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Oyekun Meyi is ifa of darkness and conciets of power and destruction, Person called to be big and dangerous, because the power is used for evil or make things wrong to gain richness in short time and not for the good of humanity. Where the step is putrid by his godchildren and he has cheated and deceived them. Your relatives have not been legal with you. You have the instincts of a killer. Don't abuse who has fallen. Over everything respect your fathers. By this ifa you will raise your hand or you have already raised it against your mother. You have had three wives (or husbands) and all of them have tried to destroy you. Give an eure to Orumila to take of all the ayare of your body. Bathe yourself with Ewe: Quita maldicion y maloja. Justice pursue you or will do it later. If you neglect yourself you will be imprisioned a long time.

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I 0 I 0 I 0
I 0 Oyekun Nilobe
Oyekun nitobe Baba Amatu Koma arugbo nishe ekun baye ayato bogbo nishe ayalo oun bisye omode baya oma arugbo nito ayeshe obifin obifa koninibo.

In this ifa they changed to otofin the letter of the year and eshu discover it all, warning Olofin by whistling. Here is why the drums don't
rap for anything, we put three whistles to Etegbara. Earth and heaven

didn't make ebo nile they paid tributes lo Ozain, and that is why misery came to the world. We adore Oduduwa and Orishaoko. We don't eat
liver. The beginning of the led is with paloma perdiz. We live an

elongated life. Here was born the pagugu or egun stick. We make ebo with colored roses and eyele meyi, later it is burned and used as iyefa. The name of this ifa is Atari, the servant of Orunla_ Baths_ with leaves of yellow plumes, dried wine and water tyatorde. We put to Oshun 16 small pieces of roasted beef with 16 small sticks of Mariwo. To Obatala two eyele fun fun and asho fun fun. We clean ourselves with the asho and after with it cover Obataia and tater ask the way (road). When we see this Ifa we tell the person: What a disgust you have provoked that a person have gotten sick in his inside. Don't jump holes. Don't think in suicide. You often get blood minded. Once you tried to throw yourself in a well or a relative have tried to do so. By this Ifa they make pinatas for children. Thank the lbeyis. Shango reclaims an offer that had not been fulfilled and that's why you delayed. Give drum to the saint that had solicits it Kaferefun Orumila, Shango and the lbeyis. Don't deceive nobody and don't raise false testimony by this tfa speaks the cans brava. The person has a hollow heart. He hasn't loved anybody in his life. That's why he has not known happiness, affection or fondness and he is insensitive to pain. By this Ifa you will lose an internal organ, as the bazo, the utero in the woman, a testicle in a man, a kidney or a lung. You can't ride horses, or pass behind any fourlegged animal to avoid a kick from this animal. In sexual_ intercourse,

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you shall not put the Woman on top of you_ In this ifa the Awo ts show the road changed. Here speaks the road of the Awo of earth and the Awo of heaven. To salve health problems we give EgLin a Obi and a akuko. Speaks of the trader that gives charity when they begged him and when he gives and attended Orumila he prospered. The ebo of this hfa

has to be carried to his destiny if we want to resolve it and it has to be

kept there five months before midday.

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0 0 I 0 I 0 Oyekun Wori 0 0 Oyekun Piti
Oyeku wori adifafun Okuni Elegbara Owo Kaferefun Oshun loda fun Orumila. This is an Ifa of ungratefulness_ This person has no chairs in his house. Who we see don't have any money. Kaferefun Yalorde. This Ifa though speaks bad, over the 21 days comes the ire you can't make ebo to a pregnant woman because she will miscarry. This ifa is destructive in children. Here speaks the hair and the pela. The leri has three things: The eyes, the ears and head. The head is for thinking, eyes for seeing and ears for hearing, but everything you think, you see or you hear can't be told. The person thinks he needs three things to be happy. Oyekun fiti is espiritista. We shall give Osun 16 eyele fun fun and we light 16 lamps of almond oil. The eyele wrapped in asho fun fun is sent to the hill. We put in the house three asia, one black, one white, and one red. We give to Shang an aparo Meyi and we pay all our debts to avoid losses. We give akuko to shango for better luck. We cover Oshun with lenty ivy, after 5 days we take 3 baths with it and we put to Oshun 16 akara bibo and tater to the river. If it's Obini: We have to give him ikofa with urgency Okuni: Make lfa fast. Here was born the creation of the family. Speaks of the disrespect of the youth to the senior because the intransiquency of the senior to the youth and the bad manners. Here speaks the ruble and the owl. You live in a big house. Make night of day and of day night. You shall not talk of everything you see. You shalt not repeat all that you hear. By this ifa before making ebo you have to obori and take a bath with omiero of jobo and jaquey.

Eshu itoki:

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Came to earth with Nana Buruki_ Load: Cinnamon of the hill, conqueror stick, justice, battle winner, yamao alpiste, amala, rice, iyobo
fun fun, iyo, gold power, silver powder, red precipitado, blue yellow and white,maya skin, ewe ozain, wraps of ayapa, lye of deer horn, earth of bibijaquero, of the four corners, leri of alakaso, azoque, tobacco leaves, ewe chicken legs, iyefa, pica pica, 3 iwere yeye, 3 atare, 3 black pennies, lye of akuko spurs, iron filings. lyefa Of Oyekun Wori: Limo of the river ewe ayo. Evefin, ewe oriye, thousand flowers, water of cologne, oni. With this too we give six baths in the name of Oshun and of Shango. lnshe-Ozain: An Ota-keke, skin of ekun (tiger) , horn of owunko, an adie.

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I 0 Oyekun Di
Oyekun di Orumila adifayoko olo u yueko. Orugbo orugbo akuko, eure, yarako, aya, ebeyo owo iwa, bogbo inkan araye, ebebikan lonle ile Olofin. Oyekun di Olorun laliku otorun latiku oyekun di otorun laliku: Signalizes the Immortal honor of Olorun Orun Kantari: The sunset Oyekun Di: Signalizes: The penis dies in the buttocks. Here the world was bad and Olofin send Orumila to fix it . Here was where the caget Orange saved Orumila from Impotence. We pray to the sun 16 days in the morning, and shut your doors early for the spirits and always say the truth for god to help you. Speak of persons that don't know his fater. Signalizes ridicule and insult in the person of the Awo. Contempt the Awo and don't acknowledge him nothing. Is ifa of conspiracy and deceit. Take attention that they don't carry you deceived to do a bad thing and you loss your life. You can't go to see a prisoner because also you too can become imprisoned. Because though nobody associate you, you can have serious problem because of you character_ They suffer of their legs. They raise a little goat and take it out to walk. Here they live away from the moral precepts dictated by Olofin. The luck of the person is receiving Orumila. This Ifa determine that all we solicit from Orumila he doesn't give it, because it's in the hands of Olofin to give it or not. When the war between humans began, Olofin to stop the war send different Orishas to earth to mend things but all of them failed in their mission. Olofin taking care of the failure of the Orishas looked for Orumila and gave him the mission to go down to earth to redeem it from envy, evil, jealousy, robbery, etc. "Orumila told him: "Alright Baba, I will go down to earth to fulfill your mission, but until I don't redeem it I wilt not ride on the head of any son. Olofin answered him: "To iban Eshu." That's why Orumila don't ride on the head of any Omota or Awo. This ifa mark venereal sickness and their fatal consequence in the nature of manhood. You don't have sons
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and live for living. The woman is not happy with the man she has someone in your house curses you has Yoko osho your wife. Raise a little goat and when she is growing unmannered sometimes you can carry her out to walk tied with a rope. You can't serve as trust or witness for anything, to avoid getting engaged in nothing bad. You can't go in-groups. Sit down to sing besides Orumila and so you will have money.

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Oyekun Biroso

Oyekun Biroso Awo Oti Olofin Tub Shawo Sadu Merin Oti Owo Iwoko, Obeyo ala, Ori Bogbo Intori Aye Kurbo Otibe Oyele Abo Intori Iku. Here was born why Saint Lazaro don't wash himself with omi, and why the sons of Saint Lazaro have to have Agayu and born with Orishaoko, to get good life and why they born with the lbeyis. Was born the plain foot and the fallen metatars. Here was born the call to all the being. We put to Orumila a gong, a drim and a matraca. Mark dispute between two brothers, because they desire the same thing' the elder have to ditch the dispute to get that they reconcile. Here is where Oduduwa sit down in the throne of Olofin. The Awo of this ifa will lose his mother and his sign of Ufa will shadow the sign of his godfather. Is Ona Orun: The road to the cemetery. The sick don't get up, the death is certain. If he gets up anyway he is condemned to die in a short time. The person has problems with the spermatozoids. He suffers of spermatogenesis. (He can't breed). The secret of the curse of Lucifer to the clay. The agreement of iku and abita Mark disgust. Sickness and shortness. Intori lku: the sick don't get up again from his bed mark slanders. The person is preoccupied because his bad health. He is blunt, he is drugged, and he is surprised. They went to win Oyekun Biroso at his job. Mark: enemy, general weakness, of the organism, of the kidney, of the heart, infections. In the women it marks loosens, weak matrix. Take care of they breast. In this Ifa is when Ku comes to look for the person. They gave charity to the poor. We hang behind the door a doll of black cloth. Here was born the scars in the face.

Oparaldo
To the person we make oparaldo sitting on a apoti (chair) with

candles behind, obi, asho dun dun, fun fun and pupua, an adie ewe,
cotton grenade, algarrobo. With these same ewe we take a bath and after obori with this we mark Orumila. We make this Oparaldo inside
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the house, in the place where we always sit down, because Iku goes there. By this ifa when the person have in su ikofa p' Awofaka Oyekun biroso and is omo of oshas warrios of the bushes, goes with his godfather to the river and there he takes a bath leaving half of his clothes there and what the river takes, the Oluwo makes him a InsheOzain that we wrap in beads of oshun, elegbara, yemaya and Orumila, seven juju of aikordie... If the person with this oddun in ikofa or Awofaka and is not omo of oshas warriors go to make saint, comes out of the ebo to enter the river with his godfather oluwo, to make him the anterior ceremony with the clothes in the river. We have to make feast to the children and the twins.

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I 0 Oyekun Juani
Oyekun Juani badawa ifa oba hayire elegbara badawa ifa ayore lokun oba yore oba lokun elegbar oun bati iaye beifa ire ahegun ola lese elegbara oun bati awo bogbo oun baye oluwo. Here was where elegbara eat akuko and owunko the first time. We have to give drum to Egun. Here Orumila made ebo to all the people of ifa in the place. Here is where the malignant spirits of Azowanul speaks. This sign is used for killing with Azowanu. Before seven days we have to give Owunko to we Elegbara. We look for an Ota and we roast a piece of skin of the owunko to mount an insheOzain for the person to have peace. Mark the suffering of Oblate because in the Ayres Luke land lived awe fare careless of what happened there and he didn't' take care of elegbara too. To get Awo Oyekun Juani big, we have to give ane owunko and a akuko to elegbara every year and we distribute it in different places. We must have always have a piece of skin of owunko of elegbara in the house. We must refresh Elegbara with seven of his principal herbs. By this ifa we have to receive Elegbara fast, if you have it you have to look in with conditions you have it, sure you have it in abandon. Here if you abandon the saints, the person loss everything. Here speaks the old owunko and the young owunko. When the young goal springs up he will go against the old goat. If we see this ifa in the woman in a search, we must give her ikofa quickly. If it is a man he has to make !fa if he doesn't a reason not to. Take care they don't hit you with wood until you die. Orumila is the only one that can save you. Speaks of a man or a woman that lives with other person compromised with another and the husband or wife of this person is going to go to your house to reclaim and we will have a tragedy that will bring misfortune, disrespect, blood and intervention of justice. Don't let anybody sit at the door of your house especially
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women. The woman suffers because her husband doesn't attend to her in the proper way. You have an only eagerness in life, have children. If you want to have them and they are not the cause of your death you have to make elo. By this person don't curtail efforts to have what they think is better for them in life and happiness though this struggle can waste his own life. For Okubi: Never doubt the paternity of your children and don't abandon them in order to prevent the loss of your luck. Never try to separate your children from their mother. If you do so when they grow up and begin to know life, they will abandon you and they will recriminate you for your bad action, rejecting you the rest of your life. See how you breed your children, because here they die of sorrow and grief for abandoning your sons.

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I 0 O 0 O 0 O 0

Oyekun Bara

Oyekun Bara alordafun Oshun lo Ozain Oni shango Shebe Shintilu osushe muti eshin niloko shishe ifa shemi oshun lonshe mamu olufina opolopo oti ogu were were ninshe omo Olofin ludafun Ozain kaferefun Agbana oni Shango Oddun of attraction and ties speaks the horse and the buey, that only htier master understand them. In this Oddun its known all the ties of a bold with another bold mark debts with yemaya. You have children with another woman, then take care of them. Your wife is very curious and taller, don't confide your secrets to her. You can't have walking with a stick nor with a umbrella hanging, put them on the floor. The person that you are interested in will come back to you, though next year. We make orugbo with oila (horsetail), 3 shells, oshe (soap) aikordie, earth of the , ar broken igba, 16 atare. With this we prepare the oshe that later we pass over the screen and with theis we bathe. We make ebo with hairs of our sexual parts, we sow them in the door of your house and we put a whistle to Oshun. The secret bath of this ifa is prepared with ewe oluyare eshin (cooked horse) 7 Ha, juju ot etu, white, red, black, and yellow thread mixed very well, a big new igba of rain water. You have to take care of your dog. You had a dream with your woman and three given luck. Put a nail to your Elegbara. You have bad teeth in your mouth... you feel pain in your eyelid. Your mother gave you away. Because of your good heart you are not succeful. Don't run so much behind your job and receive Orumila. Take care of curses. Note: The ebo of this ifa carry a hang rope anointed with tallow, and it is putted on the floor behind the door. The ebo carry isheri (nails)

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By this ifa what you want to obtain cannot be, by brutal force, but with wisdom and hability. Seat the guardian angel in order to obtain happiness this way he may help you get what you wish. This oddun takes out of darkness the spirit of later awo. The awo of this ifa when he goes to bed shall put a lamp near the pillow of his bed, to get that this light watch the journey of your emprisioned spirit when you sleep. By this ifa we are in danger of getting tied all your life to a son or daughter of oshun, because the egoistmod these are bad. Ebo: Akuko, mouthful! of eshin, bogbo, ache... we scrape the mouthfull of eshin and what it loss is given to drink with eye and epo o we blow it upon who we want to dominate. Marks debt with yemaya and with Shango.

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I 0 Oyekun Foloko Kana
Oyekun folukoadifafun okan oyeyu obara yire wa obini aye otonu ogutiyan larifun lodi iku oyeku peleka. We put a tabacco pipe to Egun. The tabacco pipe tied. Speaks of one who ofikale trupon with the woman of Orumila and with another woman relative. Spaeks Olofin, Egun , Obini, and lyalorde. We give eyete meyi to egun. You have to make an ashere (maraca) with a guira or a guirito decorated with shells, to play for Oshun all days and this way the gain is sure. When the awo see this Ifa, his son here to be seven days without going out to the street, because they can kill him. Speaks of wounds in the feets. You have to regard your seniors. By this ifa you betray without thinking. Obini: Wants to go with another okuni. The person is intransigent. He doesn't hear advices. The person thinks he is tied or emprisioned. We want to know about somebody that is a breeded son, because iku walks all around your house and wants to dance with you. It has a creature that clamours at night, and is that he sees everything. Your affairs are retarded, make ebo for them to go forward. Avoid fights with your wife or husband. Your enemies are trying to throw witchery in your house. Regard your seniors of blood and religion to avoid problems and curses. A woman has made something that has prejudiced you Speaks of Hines of blood. Take care of sexually transmitted deceases. You can't drink alcoholics drinks in order to avoid a bad conclusion in your life. Don't attempt against your life, because you will attain it and will have

to live the rest of your with a physical and moral consecuences of this act. Your helat is not good. Take care of your blood and go to the
physician. Don't drink nothing they offer to you. You have in your house a dog that howls at night and holds you back. If you are a woman: You have left your husband for another man and this one has not given you anything. You have come to know about a lover. Beware of your bad head you can get yourself foreign faults. A woman is pregnant but that abdomen is not of her husband. There is a bad thing burned in the of your house. Here is born the road of the reencamation (leri Ofo). Don't dress the same way any of your friends dress, because we may have the heads changed. Avoid disputes in your house, because you your wife ( or husband) doesn't have good relations. Take care of your stomach and your heart. See what Saint Lazaro wants. If you are a woman and hasn't married yet, you have to receive ikofa to get married or take seat in your marriage or relations Mark illness of the blood and venereal illnesses.

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+ I 0 I 0 I 0 Oyekun Ogunda 0 0 Oyekun Tekunda
Oyekun tekunda lobina nasa oyo opa ota kuku wora adifafun abereque luba omo Orumila koba Ogun titiwo beere olotura agogo labiniku teniye ewe oguna ifa ni ota ojojo ebo adie, eku eya, owo teteboro. Here was born the spirituality of ifa. Is the personification of the spirit of Orumila. If your Tonti abure Ogunda Yeku is the material personification of orumila, this oddun oyekun tekunda is his spiritual personification. You shall not be covetous, because that can lose you. With the same witchery of the enemy you can win. We put to oshun a golden axe. March in ifa the arrive of the river We put to the egun protector, natilla, oti, coffee, omi, floewrs, tobacco, cegarrets and an itana in a hollow tree in the bushes. You shall not leave the certain for the uncertain. The Awo shall not go to any place leaving his things undone, because he will certainly lose. This isgn says to the awo, that orumila has gone from your house, and to get him back, he has to make ebo with adie, meyi, dun dun, eku, eya... Ewe of the oddun: Oguma(wonder) In an ebo of this sign can't lack a gandinga. Birth of the mensu (horn loaded in the prenda) We give two adie to Oshun and carry him to the river, raw or cooked as she determines. We shall use int eh neck-chain a little golden axe, to get success. We put to Elegbara a little mirror washed with omiero and behind we give him to eat a jio jio with Elewa. Prepare an inshe Ozain with a small mirror.

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We put to Orumila a small mirror and a pice of brave cane(cana brava). We drink broth of marrow of bones with an iwereyeye. Don't eat piguant and don't drink dry wine. in fast we shall drink small cup of oti to sting ourselves. You shall go to the foot of a cana brava (brave cana) tree, we take the point of a branch, we put it on our stomach and we losses it begging Olofin, Oshun and Orumila, to take of you the evil. Here speaks of gandinga. We put in front of the ikofa a canuto of brave cane. By this ifa we put a hand of washed dilogun in a soup bowl in front of the ifa of awo. If they send to look for you from the country you shall go because there is your luck. You will find an obini that will be your happiness, but be aware of foods or drinks. You shall be suitable, because you can lose everything. Orumila had to go to an ita but his enemies wanted to entangle him in the guines pepper that the coconut had. But he had the ebo done with adie meyi dun dun, he then cooked and putt them in his apo. When he came they invited him to eat, but he told them, "No, I already ate on the way, I'm not hungry." Note: Before beginning the ebo, the awo chews a piece of Obi with atare meta and blow it in the ebo. Here was born the blowing of the obi chewed with atare meta in the four directions of the wind, when we give to the ikoko Ozain, Obi omi tutu.

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0 0 I 0

I 0 Oyekun Sa I 0 Oyekun Rikusa

Oyekun rikusa kukute kuku adifafun Ogun ati Oshosi dariko Oye kun sa kaferefun oya, Orumila adifayoko atadafa awo aladafa otoke toyo Ina meyi inya lowo odsa nito lesushu komandi kotitu edan atoke loyo orugbo sikordie, akuko pupua elebo Here was born Agoi: female Saint Lazaro For the woman: When she goes ou to the street, and see a burial she turn her face or cover her face with her hands. For the man: When he sees a burial he salute its. We pray to heaven with two dried obi painted with efun and anil, we put them over the roof of the house or high in the court. We shall not eat guimbombo You shouldn't fullfil with any saint You live all half with another and that isn't convenient for you. Speaks of a familiar egun that in life suffered of his leg and used chutches. The awo of this ifa deosn't respect Orumila, because he continue living the same life he lived before making Ifa, and at last lives between shit. This ifa speaks of spiritual phenomenon, the person believes he sees things that walk, talk, rises and falls by the power of his thinking. Wonderful things that changes by the will of his mind. By this ifa, the person man or woman, marry the person that calls his attetion in order with his mental fancies without thinking if that convenient for him, and later comes the downfall and death. This ifa command to piant the house white and maintain it claen and organized this way you will get Obatala to visit you and give you luck that he has for you.

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The owner of this ifa shall not wet himself with rain water and never at all if he is omo of Obatala. He shall always dress in white and be always clean. You cursed an Omo Shango and this curse return against you. For Osobo: You was cursed by a A\Shango Omo and that curse reached you. Be carefull of sudden death, go to the physician and check yourself. The person lives under the influence of an obsesor Egun that carry him to do things that he shouldn't do. E have to make him Oparaldo with what Orumila indicate. Look at what Elegbara wants to prevent he destroy your house if he hasn't already. Try not to be ungrateful with those who make good to you to prevent them cursing you. The person don't salute neither treat the babalawos with the respect they deserve. Don't upset yourself and pay Shango what you owe him. Take are of disguts and blood in your way. Put a bunch of banana to Shango and cover it with poplar leaves, this way he will cover you from all evil you may have in your way. Avoid crossing the sea and the river and if you think of going to the country, before make an ebo to avoid misfortune. In your two persons are struggling for the possesion of money or the possession of the house, make ebo to prevent you from tossing. If you turn yourself full of pride and faults, they will throw you away from your house.

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Oyekun Bika

Oyekun bika oyewodelaka adifafun Oyekun adifafun ika Oyekun bika alake edon edifa oye oun oka nogbati tin isopokun eku, eya do la shawo. This is the ifa of envy. To envy a brother kills another brother. Mark: Fault of breathing, suffocation, heart illness Signal: Haughty The duel between men is born. Your friends are trying to live with your wife. You can't wet your head with any type of water, to take a bath you shall put a pitcher on your head. Is a very laborious Oddun. The awo here has to work plenty with ifa. It's better, a little of a lot than a lot of a little. The awo shall have a moderated character, because between his godchildren he will have bolds, beliciosos, y cuatreros. Don't eat corn. You shall not have you rfingernails long. Here was where Ogun got out of jail the 16 meyis. By this ifa ogun lives in the slaughterhouse and underground. We make ebo with one hundred feets to prevent that our godchildren disthorne us. We put a canoe in the ifa big hand. Signal that you have to finish what others have left unfinish. The owner of theis ifa shall not make ifa to nobody. In each hand of your ifa you shall put a little piece of cedar wood. It have a person that you think is dead and is alive, be aware the day you see her, you don't die of the impression received. Comply with gaining some money everyday and not plenty at one time and then have a longtime without gaining money again. When you carry out a job don't collect to much money, because they shall not look for you again.

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You can't travel in a boat to prevent been thrown into the water and drowning. Be aware of the ambition of a brother that envy's all your things and can also try to kill you. Take care of forgery. Take care that you don't die suddenly of a fright. Obini: You shall meet a man of money, accept him, it will be your luck. Secret of this ifa: To receive Boromu and kofibori with eya iniru (rabirrubia) Receive Azowanu: We have to receive Oduduwa and Ozain of position. In this ifa was born the 'tutu. Speaks the agony of death. Why some people die in peace and others in terrible agony. By this ifa Orumila shall not eat until the awo come back from river. Because what he went to look for to the is the spirit of iba, odo, and there he shall pick up a ota keke that goes to his soup plate and eat with his ifa.

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Oyekun Batrupon ifa ni unlosile ilar-e lokun ilarere obini pami kaferefun Orumila obarabaniregun Olofin. Here was where the cooked the first time in grills. Speaks the torture of fire. Here the pig saved humanity of death when iku went to otoku to all the living souls, that why Olofin cursed him to never talk again. We give him pork in the shadow. We can't eat pork meat. We have to breed a little pig, but we can't kill, or sell or give away. When it dies we make ebo with his leri. !fa is going to travel, march illness to the abdomen. Kaferefun Eshu, Orumila, Ogun ati yalorde. The marriage can be destroying by jealousy and slander. The boyfriend is trying to eat before. Take care you don't lose yourself. Take care of your brain, because in the family we have who is crazy or died crazy. The person was born because they begged a lot and she is here by the miracle given by a saint. Put on quickly the necklace of Orumila and the ldefa. Don't drink alcoholic's beverages. The awo doesn't take care of the ifa and that's why nobody recognizes him as awo. This ifa speaks of the destruction of de carabali and lucumi land. We suffer of suffocation and we cannot get angry. Ifa of the inconsiderate. We can have intestinal paralysis. Take care of affemeninates, because they can confound you with, somebody is hearing what you say and then is going to tell it his own way. You will have an important responsibility. Eshu Mari Maye:

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We mount it in an ota of canteria in what we cut the led we decorate with ten shell of the neck, 21 on the base. We put three shells on the forehead and eyes, mouth and ears of shells. Carry his knife with his correspondent juju and Orumila beads. After cutting, and before loading it we give it an ekute mouse in the bush. The ara of the ekute is made iye and we mix it with iye of eleri of ayapa, eleri of jewish birds, of gunugun, conqueror stick, devil stick, silly stick, 21 herbs of Elegbara, em, obi, kola, obi motiwao, osun azoque, eku, eya, epo, ori, oti, otikana, oni, 21 atare oguma, azufre. Drawing:

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I 0 0 0 I 0 Oyekun Tura I 0 Oyekun Tesia
Oyekun tesia akiki olorun obi lolun obi lolun mati bibikougun awo apigumi wata Orumila akine idila sara akuko abelowo elebo. lfa of the transfiguration. What written cannot be erased. The person though has everything in life, money, health, position, etc, has a great spiritual vacuum in his life because of a son or daughter that don't obey him, and do what he or she pleases. If is male he has been in jail and if is female she has a dishonest life in all ways. The awo of this ifa shall have two etu keke for breeding in his house. Ifa of the lonely soul and of oduduwa. Your teeth have rotten in you mouth, because it has been in the vulva of the women. Orumila made him ebo but the harm has been done, and the stomach and the intestines have been affected too. The man likes mamu obo and the woman mamu oko. You have the habit of doing nothing of what they tell you those who know or have experience of life than you, because you think you know more than anybody. Note: Take care of alcohol, somebody want's you drunk and fallen in the street and disenchanted. ifa says that a person is going to go away from you because of your bad temper. Don't deny food to any babalawo or santero that comes to your house. You have to make a consecration and another person is meddling in order to make it herself. Put an asie pupua to Shango and salute him. When you have jobs or settlement others are trying to take them away from you. Because of drinks you are going to lose your health, your morality and your life. Give food to Ogun and to Oshun and to Egun and put banana to Shango. You have made a woman suffer too much and she died of disgust and her spirit is following you. She died of a heart
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stroke. She was daughter of Oshun, beg her pardon and offer her a mass. Now you have another woman and all that you did to the former, now this one does it to you. Use a red handkerchief to dry your face and when somebody solicit it give it away. Intori Osobo: The person have made something weighty and have the roads closed. Intori Iku or Run: We can do something to get the sick to feel better, but always he will die. Eshu Anagui Elufe: Is arara of the dassa land, he is named kpoli. Is syncronize with Saint Antoine Gervasie Wood doll, o ceiba with articulated legs and arm. Is san of Olokun and of Oya. Dress him half-red and half-black and live inside a clay pot... Is six months good and six-month bad.

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+ I 0 I 0 00 I 0 Oyekun Birete
Oyekun birete molala awo molala intori ifa awn molala abeoyo laye tinshore ifa otuwo-pop-o Molala awo tinshore ifa Oshanla ifa molala ni yabe otaroni ifa mayare nilaye motata. This ifa seize the awo seven days inside this house and have to clean himself with: Eku, eya epo, agbado, obi, light three days to Oshun and to babatu aye. The cleanness is thrown away in the four corners of the block of his house. When se see this ifa the awo make him ebo to tie the luck, to prevent that its go away. We make the ebo to lie the luck, to prevent that its go away. We make the ebo with: Ewiri (fuelle), akuko, eku, eya... Owo la meta tontieta. When we don't have ewiri, we make it with yarako (rope) and two pieces of wood. By this ifa we can't receive Saint lazaro, but we have to attend him with Oshun and Yemaya, because the person can be Omo of one of these Orishas. They bring the good to the house. This ifa signal Sodomy. Beware of gay or lesbians that can visit your house. Mark: Coldness in the bone, arthritis, and impotence from sexual abuse. illness of legs and Leukemia_ We use necklaces Azowani with an Inshe-Ozain hanging you can't abuse of power. We use white and red cap. Signal separation of marriage. We have to attend the dead. For Leukemia: Drink every day cocimiento of herb of blood, zarzaparrilia, anamu, red mangle and pendejera. Later at mid morning take a mixture of sour orange, carrot and egg yolks. By this ifa we lives the lies and we deceive everybody. In this ifa ode was known in earth. We have to

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receive him. Is ifa of Non believer. We come to the feet of Orumila when we are with the rope at the neck, but not by faith in him or in the Saints. You are struggling (fighting) with someone that was you friend and now is your enemy. Beware that they are throwing ogu on the ground to get you sick of the feet, to prevent you from walking and get you die of sorrow. You live mistaken because you think you know it all, but you are not centered with your affairs. Don't porfie and less with your wife or husband to prevent entering in disrespect. If we have a sick person, he is very bad and we don't have security to save him. Beware of strangled hernia. Control your violence to prevent that you get lost. In your house you have a person o little crazy that likes to be in problems and slander. Get away from that person. They can destroy your house. A daugther of yemaya will save you.

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