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Mori Meyi,yiqui yiqui mayo adtfafun kokolo yebeifa tiro keya lampe Shango aroni yeo Elerepin Orumila Lorubo This oddun of ifa is male. Son of Tehitana and Holougoco Evoque: A destroyed Obstacle Born: The brown color or Matipo, tne whirls (remolinos). the ardour in the animals, the analysis of the facts, and the things, the logic. the antiqenos of the blood, the leukocytes, the ferocious and carnivorous animals, the decapitions, make the evil to women with the cloth of the custom and for this we pray with elequede and elequede o kan eku eya gold (guavina) inside the elequede and five aikordie around This odduns means: Guard the head. Is the Exterminator Angel We suffer of psychosis The person is Sqizofrenic We can't eat akuko or amala Announce the death of a child Speaks: Of chantage, of robbery. of woman that try to obtain the man without concern of how she gets it, of instability of the marriage of loss of the memory. And to avoid this the interested has to have always at hand a little bell to toll underneath the pillows at midnight callin g the senior's odduns. The Ozain of this sign carry garbage of a whirlwind and sand of where the river and the sea meets. Iwori Meyi is a head that speaks from inside of the earth. Ewe of the oddun; Ewe tete and ewe Gbegbe (copal) Mark: the destruction of the sons of rum(la. because they wanted to know more than him and they couldn't save them and with grief he began to cry.

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Was born the eyebrows, the eyelash and the eyelid Was born the buzzes. The sisco (continuos emission o f the s letter) manifesting displeasement or calling somebody. The a wo that have godchildren with this sign shall not give them plenty power. because this oddun represents a hidden fierce. The son of this ifa carries hidden things inside We shall not receive visits of Al yos after six in the evening_ Here was born: the granting of the repose of the fortune telling after six in the evening. Was born the phrase: tying oieces we make a rope. Here we can know great things going among small details. The secret of this ifa the horn of malu loaded at the feet of Ogun and tied in steel wire, and we put it in the center of Ogun. We give to Elegbara or Owunko keke and we carry it to the site where the river and the sea meet. To Shango we put pilahaya, and later we destroy it in water ad we bathe him Iwori Meyi always in the ebc we have to put on three len and ask Orumila with what thing we must wash the leri. This Oddun describe the rotten of the world, the decomposition of metals and the desarticulations of the bones Is an oddun of evil, of diffidence and injury. His sons are malignant. bad tempered and ungrateful, they don't believe in anything or anybody. they are manosos, matraguillosos and invertidores of things They dor't have peace with anybody. Here Olofin cursed the earth and that is why he's not himself. Is born all the rotten. Take care of illness that rots the flesh. We suffer of the blood and the stomach. You shall not meet with three persons the same time

Ebo for Resolving Labor Problems

An akuko, seven weighty ota, 12 atare. 3 railroad nails ei loop 1 big clay ikoro. We put everything inside of the ikoku and at twelve midnight we give it an akuko at the foot of an araba bush By this ifa we prepare an agboran that live and eat with ifa of iwori meyi, named Oshe Ori Omonifa Load: leri and elesse of egun, of eyanaku. leri elese and okokan of alakaso, of ayapa, of eure of Orumila, of owunko. of etu. of aparo ien wings and okakan of eya gold (guarina), inzo of the lent of the awo, fingernails of hands and feet. hairs of his sexual parts of the beard asho arae, atitan ile, three inkines of Orumila an odu-ar-a crushed. 32
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aikordie, leri of agbani, of adie of Orumila, a adan, an aquema, three small horses of the devil (libelulas), two pargo eyes, 21 atares, filings of all the metals, bibijaguas, earth of a bibijaguero. atitan of ile iku anart okun and of odo, of ibulosa. of eke. igui: Ramon, jigut, guayacan, parami, yamao, battle, moruro, white cuaba yaya. obi kola, anun, osun, obi, motiwao, ori, efun, epo. ont, agbado We pray it well with the oddun of the Awo on the table (tablero) (Iwori, meyi), oddun of the godfather and of the ayugbona, oshe tura the meyis ifa, otura she. When we are washing it we make plenty gold to Ozain. This is consecrated giving him to eat apart and akuko with Shango, 07_ain and egun. The Oshe grab an akuko by his legs. what means that we shape the doll grabing an akuko by his legs. Ozain Boglo: This Ozain protects of the effect of some witchery made by the araye. It is a pot with long neck and its secret name is Lundote, what means: Pots that remains for oa. Is a brave guardian of ifa. Load: Ewe: Weena (dried love), that destroy the colors that mean the nose of the witches spirits, four kolas 16 atare, 16 chinese atare) We cover everything with a striped asho fun fun and dun dun we carry the asho to the cemetery and we pass it over a grave asking if this egun is our allied. When we put the asho over the pot we put efun and it and we link a juju of whitegarza. that is a traveling bird that always return to his nest. We give an eyele to the pot before closing it. and after we close it we put on it a textures band of martno and we hang to the neck a dilogun and a glory dun dun that simbolize Elegbara This Ozain protect not only the awo in his journey. but also his family in his absence. Before traveling the awo have to pray it and anoint him epo He lives buried in a hole or in a big tgba with earth. He lives in heights and women can't touch him.

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I 0 I I I I 0 Iwori Bogbe Iwori gbogbe ifa mayewe ifa afefe iti ewe ananakun Drun bebeni ifa adiyoko Onibarabaniregun ara bushe awo mayeye allo adiyoko on ifa oni Shango on wo Olokun on ni ifa This ifa speaks about no control of the nervous system of the great symphatic that alter all his nervous system and make him look crazy. Mark a serious problem in his vesicle btliar. Speaks of Illness produced by his nervous system, out of control like: Asthma, esquizofrenia, gastric ulcers and of the duodena, transitory craziness. That's why the person has to live sedated. Speaks of illness in the head and if he don't make ebo it will kill him and destroy his family. Is an Oddun of greed and caknavery Was born the ants Don't eat corojo and no class of pigeons The son of this ifa will have his life in eternal storm; that is why he will live a stormy life. Was born the injury's and affront The awo of this ifa shall not work ifa when there is a storm or whirlwind. In this situation he must mark his sign on the floor, he kneel and put his head over the sign praying. With this Oddun we delay too much in prosper Here was where Orumila and his wife went to live to the top of the ceiba Was born the twins Was born the marine storm Ifa f faults with Shango Ifa of prostitutes. The woman has had three husbands In this ifa the father abandons the son

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Speak the traveler pigeon that leaves the nest empty (palomas) you have to put on the idefa quickly. Was born the great transformation of Olokun Ebomisi of lwori Bogbe: Omi of the river of the soup bowl of Oshun. 12 white bells. This at 12 o'clock midday Inshe-Ozain of the Pocket Leri of ayapa, root of Maguey macho. len of osiadie, eru, obi kola. osun, osho stare, 4 winds of aikordie. Wrapped in asho pupua eat oti at Wednesday. When you want that a person solve you something, you take 9 bushes of ewe eran (chicken leg) with theirs roots. The roots of the person with the names of the persons marked with ou fun fun and dun dun and we put it over elegbara. We ask the days and we bury it or not. We anoint it with epo. eku, eya, agbado. !won bogbe stay alone or die alone because if he is in a hospital when he is going to die they will be no relations there We have to be obedient We shall not drink alcohol beverages Suffer of a ball or disorder in the stomach produced by a damage they did to him long time ago.

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Iwori Yeku

Iwori Yeku inkan oku ombelare oun yeleni inton inkan to walore ala toguma ala bururu oun batonshe que inkan to gire ion komawa yote lowo loma ni mi obori In a shut mouth flies can't cone in Don't talk of what you see. Was born the footstep on the ground The trail that we take and we work for good and for evil ifa of bribes Speaks: Orumila, Oshun and Yemaya Take care of what you talk about. Don't be careless and make ebo to avoid making you a fool. To Shango we put oti. red wine, dry wine. oni. we throw him smoke with two cigars. we play him ashere and ask him for what we want to solve. Here was born that the woman without menstruation shale have an Ozain guide. We can't go to the country before seven days after we ha I to see this ifa. This ifa signalize that the obini will get sick and she will not get up again. Mark: Illness of the stomach and the legs. Beware of operations with the urinary and intestinal track The money comes hot. The Elegbara of this ifa carry flies alives If she is a woman she has bribed a man, and he is looking for her to kill her, We have to receive Orumila and adore all saints You have to cure yourself of venereal and vaginal illness Marks: internal hemorrhaging. Internal bleeding. If it is a woman she have two husbands that are from the same secret of fraternal society

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She has, had or will have a Great War because of a man. Take care of your tits. You can't miscarry because your life will be in danger You have an enemy that wants to hit you with an iron because you have chantajeo him It shave an Egun that live with the woman or incline her 10 homosexualism. To Have Owo: Corn leaves, ear of corn, asho fun fun we cut the ear in two parts. we wrap it separated with long leaves of corn, we join them and we mark it with the asho fun fun and we put it to rum!la. Telling him. Orumila owo Ire Umbo Ebo: Akuko, 2 eyele, 3 iqui (asked) painted of fun fun and pupua, bogbo ashe, bogbo ahse, bogbo asho, go to a hill Ebo: to avoid they make a fool of you. akuko, etu meyi, measure of your leri, asho arae, eku. eya.

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Iwori Di I 0 Iwori Bode

Iwori bode !won ifa, 'won Omo yebe gongole, yebe Oshanla abere ni ifa Olokun gbore gbore omo ina bore ifa wolode fi alacluema seyere ifa Oshanla lorubo

The black don't become white Because he carved his hie at ease he has his house abandon Many times she remains abstracted without seeing what's around her You have your eyes closed and its time that you open them. You are a perceptive medium, they put things of the other world in your mind, but you are in detention, because you don't attend your spiritualness. In the material thing you have to come down to the earth, (leave vain illusions) and live the reality of life (In order to analyze who appreciate you and who don't. If it's a woman she made a tie to her husband By this ifa we suffer of difficulties to urine Take care of your kidneys and yoc r bladder. This ifa speaks of sea phenomenon s like maremotos mar de leva, ras de mar, etc. The person can't bath in the sea or go to picnics in boats, because she can get drowned. Speaks the bullfight. The bull and the bullfighter Don't kill lizards they are you salvation. We have to receive Ozain to win the war of your life for your sons. Mark a Great War with a palero. Don't eat guimbombo To win the war we put a white flag at the house. Give food to Ogun and the warriors Your enemy use mask and works against you at your back TaKe care of your eyes, you can get blind. Take tea of corn hairs. Ifa of losses The body of the person is strong but there are losses In this ifa we don't have full happiness, because aiways we have familiar problems and conjugal cheating from both spouses.

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If the woman have children that already are seniors they don't want her to have another husband The egotism of the sons that wants to rule they father. Mark the woman that in her youth hood carried a sexual careless life. Yemaya wa sobini of Orishaoko and send Shango to take care of her the time he was absent. Shango went and when it had passed some days he got asleep. When Orishaoko knew this he got mad and declared war to Shango. Ebo: Akuko, teo eyele, mala guidi, ada, asho, ara ofa, atibon titan, Ile, asho fun fun, bogbo ewe osiadie, eku, eya... The osadie for paraldo. akuko for Elegbara, Eyele Meyi para Obatala. bogbo ewe for e bominisi, Obi itatana for kofibori

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Iwori koso eni ewa oboni egun iku ayeque iwoneke arun efun efun lele yekun iya arun leye leye Inton arun obono Oluwo abo men ifa omo awo oyekun leye lengue yengue orun agboni fa inle ebo lokun omo nika The person for imperious necessity have to have oduduwa, Olokun and Orishaoko. Her was born hiorocrecia abnormal accumulation in a part of the body Kaferefun Orumtla Elegbara, Shango. Yewa and Agayu In this ifa is where they take envy to the prosperity of the trader. Signalize robbery of trade We make ebo with four eyele that we give to Obatala and we crown him with 16 aikordie Here is where the female pigeon misguided the male pigeon The person is bad looked where she is. We put to Elegbara leaves of parra or of ligos then late we take a bath with them The person is separated from his father by circunstances of life Today he dcesn't occupy of you, but tomorrow he need you. Attend and help him and let him die near you and so you will get the blessing of Olofin Ifa of the swamp, where the pigeon dropped, we have to hold ourselves to agayu ifa of slander Ifa of the parrots. Somebody didn't want your birth. In this ifa Elegbara of three faces, is named Esho Atitan Her we get old. When we know, we say we don't know. We give yewa two adie in the cemetery and we live them inside a tomb Iwori KOSO is a romantic person. We suffer of a hormonal illness that is reducing the size of your penis. Is born why we have to make a request to azowanu when we go from one place to another.

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Mark superiority complex and divisions between people. In this ifa the guinea don't have crown, because that bump in his heed is a blow they give him and they cursed him. The tiger took something and people followed him so much and persecuted him, that to save himself he had to throw it away. The person is accompanied by an eg menn laye The Eguns of the four parts of the world. We give them akuko in araba. If is obini, he is cheating his oko, You dream bad and sleep bad. Don't trample the mat with shoes, because its your bed rind your table.

Oparaldo:
Two adie: the herbs you take the cloths, the ingredients of the Oparaldo. Don't cut the len. We load them by the anus with eke. eya

epo, agbado, ori, oti, We ask if they are going to the cemetery or the bushes. The awo is who carry them.

Opera(do.
Two adie. We kill one in the oparaldo The other we extirpate the leri

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0 I I I I 0 Iwori Juani
Ifa Iwori Juani Ifa wara war a ni moro kasheita kashmine wara wara mi moro Orumila o lorugbo Iwori juani is the guardian of the joro joro, of iku egun by mandate of Shango, who was the father of laye. When we open the joro joro we pray Iwori Juani, because he is the porter of the joro joro. (won Juani is the agent that look after the tombs are graves in the cemetery. In order to get that the ebo make effect we have to pass it over the back of the interested and under his clothes. Here Obatala went away from the house angry because of his sons and eleg.Dara carried him again with the luck Were we give akuko to elegbara and we take juju of apa ()tun of apa osi and from the tail and a juju of alakaso that we put in the center and we make a plumero and we blow iyefa of this ifa we line wrh ou dun dun and fun fun and we hang it over elegbara like it was a plumero We make two malaguidi that we load with asho arae, ler/ of ayapa, of akuko, atitan enigbe, ingo of the awo, eku. eya. agbado, eru. obikola, aira, obi motiwao. We make the malagurdi of wood of open road (abre camino), we wash it omiero of ewefa and we put then to eat inside the ifa of Iwori Juani, adie dun dun with orumila and eleda. Each one of these has a name: Oyedegun and Oyedoma Speaks the corncob. We command to sing For Osobo I the person is hairless like a corncob For sick: We make him ebo with akuko, asho ara, a walking stic<, eku eya, epo...

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After the ebo, we give a walking stick to the sick for him lo walk to the door every day. The egun alabo Boa Ashe Egun, is controlled with an Incian coconut, that we paint on it outside the odduns of ifa of eguns i3nd we load it opening a little hole on the top and throwing in side it 6 atare, (9)..., epo, and oti, we light him an axe (hacha) (tobacco) and we put it crossed a top and there we call Egun. We walk the obi each three months, and when this time is finished we carry it to the foot of araba Iwori Juani throw in an lgba with eko a lithe bit dried wine and with that at night we give to eat to the frame of the door and once a mor th we anoint on in cross. lwori Juani in the New Year have to give to eat an akukoto Elegbara. You can't cry misery though you see yourself without a penny, you have to sing and laugh in order to go ahead in life Because of your pride you will suffer a lot.

TREATY OF ODDUNS OF !FA I 0 O I O I O 0 Iwori Obere

Iwori obere oun bereyo own trola iyo timodeaye oun bere loko uru adifafun yalorde ati Shango. Maferefun Elegbara Here the person loss because his good heart The others abuse of him He has to clothe himself with character and put each one in his place, to get to live with honor and that his life and his house not get to be a disaster. Is born the virtue of the pica pica, that is why it can't lack in the load of elegua. Here eshu covered the house of Orumila with ewe pica pica, to avoid that it could be found by his enemies. Here was where Orumila thanks to the hospitality that Ozain gave him, didn't need to work the land anymore, living from tat time on account of the heal of the sick. Here was born the responsibility of Oluwo Ozain. we may look for an adie with little juju oparaldo and we give him a Ozain 21 jio j o Secret of this 'fa. Lordafun Ogun. To win we take a piece of eranmalu, e open it like it was a book and with it we clean under our armhole and after we anoint it with epo, asking for what we want to win, making three times like if we are going to spit it. We carry it to a railroad line. leaving it there with a right This is the ifa of the stilts We have to receive Inie abate Was born the dance of Ayojo that is with mask and slits, The ceremonies of adamu Orisha. Is born the stand an end or spiritual irradiation, when the spirit float over the body. for to get that the peson solve, we beg the leri and we send him to use a Shango necklace that reach his navel. We pass it over the table board. We give to Elegbara an owunko keke in an ota behind the door and we mount an Esnu in that ota and opolopo file file (pica pica), ewe ina and other ingredients

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Speaks this ifa of a stone that make obstruction in his way. We have to give quickly an owunko to Elegbara Here is born the apeteui Ayafa Here is born the jeaulosy. By this ifa who get angry losses his happiness. Give unyens to you Guardian Angel. You have to make ifa, sit down and don't run so hard. Be aware of a woman that will be your disgrace, she have made you a work in a cup or glass o water with chalk and rue The opposition is 101 leaves of ewefa to drink. And take bathe with Omiero of verdolaga, albahace, atiponla and aberikunlo.

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O 0 O I O 1 I 0 Iwori Kana
Iwori kana adifafun eya okurnn ashin okun olokun oba ckun agana lopa leri. Kaferefun Orumila, lodafun olokun This is the ifa of the diver Here the devil came to the earth, came in to a church ani burned the images of the saints. Respect all religious and never do anything against it saints. Take care they don't threat you with a knife Take care et your eyes. You are called to loss an eye in an accident. We have to receive Ozain and Olokun. You have to attend Ogun very much. giver him teo etu and take care of him, in order to get always his help and never obstruct your way You can't take a bath in the sea. because it's sure that in one cf those bath you will drown yourself and much less put on a mask to go diving Here is born the masks of Olokun It is necessary to receive him. The person knows that he has a hidden enemy that's harming him but he doesn't know who it is. In this ifa Ogun don't acknowledge anything they do in his favor. Speaks of a person that doesn't know his mother_ We can't fix the world. It has war and we shall do for winning it. We suffer of intoxication because we eat a food that is tabu for Guardian Angel. Here was born the tua tua
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For the sleepiness and skin eruptions we drink tua tua and zarzaparrilla. Secret: Omi tutu, eku eya, iyefa prayed from this ifa and we throw it on the board table

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Ifa says: that the carat beans is sowed, is born at the ninth day and crawl on the ground detore getting up and later have flowers. Says: That we have to have patience and constancy, because to get to the top we have to suffer the adve rsities of life You have a daughter you have never recognized Don't oppose openly the love relations of your daughters If any one of therr is with her boyfriend, don't curse or persecute her let her lives her life because in the future you will reconcile. Take the advises of your wife to go ahead and in the future you don't have to repent. Don't be obstinate and tell your wife your problems, for she to beg the saints for your happiness Don't abuse your wife in order to maintain your luck and maintain her. Beg to Oshun with five different things and in short times jDut him something, to get her to help you Ebo Osiadie. eyapa, ada, obe, asho. funfun and dun dun omi of the river, awe ashibata, oyuera with their roots. zarza. eku eya The ekuko have to be fun fun Ebo: abu funfun, akuko black male doll dressed in blue and white, two masks, sea water, fishing net, fishing cane fishing hook eku, eya... opolopo owo

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I0 I I I I 0 0 Iwori Ogunda
!won Ogunda, iwon owa lele fa Ogunda awabo borun awanin lorin oni ifa awo beheni awo kanibi ifa awaken' ifa oribaye awo abiwa abani awo. Here was born the fright, that ogun brought to the world If the person is Omo Shango, he is going to be Ifa and he will establish a country. If the Oluwo that give him the awofaka is omo Shang, he will not make that person ifa. He will make it with another awo Here was born Obara Kekuite Oluwo. the elegbara that eat aya dun dun with ogun. Carry an ofa in the len to win the war. We make omiero for Elegbara with sprouts of jaquey Speaks who had a tragedy, and was wounded, and so wounded and bloody was going upon his opposite to kill him. Speaks the missionary that go to each town telling the good, but with all his preaching, he don't have home. he is tired because all go to him looking for something or to solve their problems and he wants to retire and rest_ Speaks of a woman that run behind a man, but she have another man that runs behind her She likes to have two husbands She has to be careful that a man don't kill her or die because of a man She had a man before the one she has now But she is not married to this one. Ifa of treats we don't have paper with signature that gives legality and they are going to deny the rights he has Here was where Shango took over the oath of orun to the omo of ogun, because he didn't count with him. Is the ifa of take over's The person is a spiritist and possible Omo Oshosi Kaferefun Olokun ati Ogun. We suffer of stings in the head. Your enemy wants to take your footsteps. Take when you go to the street that they are Watching you. We have to make an Inshe-Ozain-never give your

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picture. Speak of operation. the person can be opened. You have a daughter or a godchild, don't be careless with her because she is good and in her is your luck. You are a brainy person and many times your
headaches. Beg your head many times If you are a man you like to rob woman and you like the young women and you like ofikaie trupon for idi, Beware of impotence If you are a woman; your menstruation is abundant and this

affects you're brain and your nervous system. You have to make works to avoid your husband from abandoning you You have to be careful with mayombe things and make the works that your ifa marks to avoid getting lost.
You have to put a piece of yagua behind your door and sometimes take a bath with seven pieces of yagua. 7 leaps of amansa guapo, '7 of quiebra hacha, 7 de yaya. 7 de jaguey, and 7 de muralla. After give an adie to your shadow, that they are trying to rob you Here was born the first tizena. Mark intoxication, don't eat pork meat. To yemaya we put palatable ternilla and we carry him to 1:he margin of the river, dedicated to Oshun.

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'won Bosa adifafun baba ayal guna eiese Olofin amego ogbo ni ologun gbogbo aiye Olofin Alamorere. Kaferefun Obatala. Lordafun Oddua. Speaks of debts with oluno-popo Speaks of vermin's in the body Parasites, Cancer in the bones etc The person gets lost. Speaks the gruyere cheese Speaks Yemaya Meyelewo. Receive Onshaoko Speaks Obatala Ayalcuna The creator of wars Ifa of horns. Here was born . The fork. the dish and the knife don't let anybody sit to your table with his hand dirty ifa of changes By ire they are favorable By osobo they are moumfil We can't have goats in the house We die at night of suffocation. of the heart. We give Owunko to elegbara. Speak the powerful earth, where the rats didn't want to do ebo Because they disobedience, all the cats kills them and the people put him traps and poisons to exterminate them because they didn''. want to adapt themselves to a good life. The person has to change his way of living this way he will not get lost. Elegbara is the owner of the traps by mandate of olofin. Elegbara eats rats In this ifa we give rat to Ozain, we wash it with omiero of miracles and we wrap it in asho funfun Signal that the person have an 11 animated Egun, that comes to make life with him. If its a man when the time passes, his nature will get weak. it will loosen Make DamId We will have a war and several persons will be in wants and the most weak will loss. You are part of the weak and have to make ebo order not to lose You have an only daughter and to avoid her death you have to make Ebo. Here the rivers got free Here Olokun gave Yemaya all the nearby waters to the coasts and he remaining himself with yemaya

mayelewo, for she to be the tracer of all his treasures. Here Olofin left the earth. We die of the heart or of the brain leakage Here Shango was droll. Because of money they can curse you, and you can loss your health and your luck. Pay your debts and who work for you. \Nay of the deceitful olori. Ebo: Owunko, akuko, adie merin, obi, etubon atitan bogbo asho, bogbo ewe, eku, eya agbado Ebo; owunko, akuko. ayapa. akuko grifo, osiadie. asho fun fun dun dun, bogbo ewe, orn okun, abiti, malaguidi, eku. eya. owunko and akuko for eshu. Ayapa and akuko grifo for Ozain Os adie for Oparido Ebo: akuko, 2 eyele. asho aperi, pupua, 5 ern ache, atitan le, malaguidi, asho arae, eku, eya, epo,...

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!won bika adifafun Orumila !won boka adifafun Orumila elebo. Baba boka gunugun ashaba gaga gungun aka ashaba guoko adifafun aleyo ibaba guoko baba buoko emi ele domiye domiye ashaba lede apata pina ewe, epo elebo Here the name (yam) and the malanga went in dispute the person carry a bunch of flowers to the cemetery. he cleans himself with it invoking all the dead and after he puts them upon a abandon tomb You have a woman and can't be with her, every time you touch her she get sick. She is the wife of Olofin. For to be good tern's with her and nothing happens to her, you have to make ebo The person have a sixth sense very developed that alert him of any danger, but he get lost for hie curiosity The person have an ability in his feet, he is dancer, jumper or a runner. He likes hunting The woman acknowledges or falls in love with her husband best friend She may be pregnant of the best friend of her husband. Her husband will know of her betray and will kill her who with iron kill, with iron will die Ifa says that you must take care of your wife, because when you go out another comes to your house and eat the best food and enjoy the fruit of your work. Your wife treats you with contempt If you discover your wife betray don't try to hill her. because you will die to grief in jail You will have luck by a daughter or a female godchild. treat her well, because all the good things you can do for her Oshun will pay you for them, You can be slandered by the wife of your best friend, is saying that you were pretending her and of because of this dispute can slander you. Have serenity on order to not get lost If you are a woman: if you haven't had children with your husband this is because he is steile Take care and don't deceive him because you sure will be pregnant and he can kill her.

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Note: This is an ifa of marriage infidelity and we can have dramatic passion. By this ifa we have to receive ode to get what you wsh, that is have a house and a honest woman. Is an ifa of robs and disturbances. Be aware of justice. because you are visiting dangerous places and in any moment you can be in jail. When you have a fright have a suspicion doesn't investigate why, but take she/ter quickly Ebo: akuko, a wood of an old house, root of mandioca(yucca) an ota. opolopo owo. Ebo: owunko, akuko abiti, ada, atitan ile, asho arae,

eku, eya, epo, agbado

Opolopo owo

The person gets lost because of cunosrty. Speaks of the missionary. The ire aye of this ifa is reached making ebo with 15 adie that we may give to Oshun

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Iwori trupon eyele,eko,oni quere yele adakoy eyele lebo owunko lebo, maferefun olukun, ala ati aieyo. Here Orumila wants Adie. The Awo that doesn't study is close to die. He is always loosing and his head is loosing Ashe We put a book of ifa in front of Orumila and every day the awo read or analyze an oddun of ifa in front of Orumila with two light atana, This is the ninth of ifa, to get that he see that his omo study every day. Every day we put to orumila an ewe ayo (guacalote). Until complete 256, then we give him two adie dundun with his ifa, later we make Z. hole in it to make an ileke that carry beads of Orumila between each guacalote. This ileke lives in yemaya and the awo use it when he is in trouble or wants to solve a problem. The person have to change of place where he lives quickly, because he see strange things there that have him frightened,a nd with nervous illness. This may signal that every awo is in the obligation to help without concern every awo that needs help. Here was where Orumila became enchanted with the obo of Yemaya and got in love with her and killed the oba of that land with an iron making to him a small but deep wound Speaks the inclemencys of the weather. You can't take to much sun The roof of your house is in bad conditions and it has many gutters You have to cover your head You will find a woman that has II in life but she has been abandoned Your family makes shade in yon r life A person is obstructing your way. You are going to travel but you will have many obstacles until you can solve all your problems Give thanks to Elegbara Your nights looks to you as if the interminable. You practice another religion and there you have many brothers that appreciate you.

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We have to help each other Yemaya have your ways closed Give her to eat quickly two akuko fun fun, two obi: two itanas, anil and carry her to the sea. You want to do impossible things You can't be careless because they can throw you away from the place you live, works or frequent. Give your son's saint's thing and love them all the same Speaks of twin sons. If it is a man, signal in nature If it is a woman, speaks of fibromas, quistes. forunculos Be aware of your tits 3nd quistes. The good is in your house you have to make ebo to the ile to get that all the good come in to your house. During seven days, send daily to olokun the rests of the food of lunch and dinner

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Way of the curious. In this oddun agbani was very curious and investigator and his enemies prepared him a trap in the road When he was passing there he heard a cricket hiss and when he was looking for the place where the sounds came from and care less he put a foot in the trap and remained immovable, and for his curiosity his enemies took hi -n Don't be curious and don't investigate what don't interest you Ebo: akuko, abiti, inzo of agbani, obe, eku eya. epo Shango accepted the war with a strong and powerful enemy that lived in the even, Shango climbed the hill and from the top took notice of all the movements of the enemy. and he throw him an ota tied to a loop. and hit him in the head. Throwing him down and killing him, a -id not being suitable with this, came down the hill and with his sword cut his head. You are a unsuitable person In a moment of violence you can lose your head and destroy your happiness. Don't mistake yourself with the fallen Ebo: akuko, a loop with a ota, oku eya, ada, obi, itena. We go up hill and we throw the loop, first we make ebo The scrapes of the ebo and a piece of cord umbebolo This for defeating the enemy Yewa speaks and we have to have her in the house Adimu to Oshun: five different Oshin shin with five akara. We have to make ceremonies to Oshun in the river with omo obiri Oshun. We have to use an lnsheOzain with deerskin. We have to take care very much of the obini. The owner of this ifa in the senior hand has to put a sun. a moon and a star in a white metal. Ewe of the Oddun Mejorana Don't take a bath with foreign soap Mark change of head by a sister with another. We have to have a duck that comes in to the house We

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must leave it stain everything, and clean id without protest it is for us to prosper. Your head can wrangle with you feet. We have illness in our
left leg. Be careful of accidents in the home or on the street VVe have to make feast with children and give unyen to Oshun for us to prosper The oyster opens his mouth only to eating. Speak little tor you not to crumble. Orumila says that beauty and all kind of happiness is coming. In this ifa to get the ire we have to surround ourselves with

good and beautiful things We have to put to Orumila's a crown of mariwo with 16 aikordie. We put to oya ere pupua and ewe avo
(guacalote). All your things have to be consulted with ifa in order to avoid a downfall. You are going to have a big disgust because of a pregnant woman, she is in love with you. Also it has another two women that deny you and say that you don't attend to them. You are going to have a disagreeable surprise.

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Iwori Rote

'won rote adae ebi osu dudu ekun fibs kuruma telo ijo sheke in shake adifafun akuko mokekeje eke tolofe anke omo olokun togbo awo ernko eiye igbo shagobo aluku inika ni eya oko abefe ikoke eyt adifafun elegbara. In this ifa the four season of the year was born. Speaks the sailors: Iwori rote is in charge of looking after the atepon ifa before ogre wene was in charge of this, but Oshun drank him with oti and bewitched him with his obo and robbed him the atepan tfa.. began to destroy his house and iwori rote was who dominated ogbe wene, staying himself as guardian of the atepon ifa Iwon rote speaks of fire in the house The awo have to give Orumila Eya oro (guabina) and before making ifa to who is coming, he has to clean himself to avoid that the angel of that person don't kill him, because he is stronger than the one of the awo. Iwori roti is very smart and like conversation. It's coming to you a son from the country. lfa say to the woman that she has to go back with her former husband and for this ebo with: Akuko. the sleeping shirt you uses, a piece of cloth and opolopo owo. When to an awo comes this letter, is one that comes to make ifa and have to oribo with An etu, two eyele t eku, eya. epo If it is woman: she has three okuni or she has had them the one she has now is a trader, one of them run with the money that you look for with another. Speak of three illnesses. Send to make spiritual mass. Speaks of intestinal parasites. Maferefun Babalu-Aye Maferefun Oshun. You can't be in high places. Avoid heights. Here was where Orumila was guest in oduduwa s house and the son of he, tormented him. When the omo oduduwa got sick, they had

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to make him ifa and the day of iyo ye, Orumila beat him with a stick. That's why many Awo's do the same thing in the yoye ceremony. The hair and the flesh was in contradiction, they lived together they had to make ebo. Here speaks the head Speaks Dori Merin, The cock pikes the chicken because he sees in him a future rival The mature man kills the young women when she tnes to abandon him. !fa of capricious. You shall not be !n the street after 12 o'clock midnight because you can meet with Ara-onu peoples You have an Egun that makes you company. that changes as good and ready he is no good. Make Oparaldo. Take care they are watching you to take your footsteps. Your arayes don't fight with you they work very low kaferefun olokun and yalorde. Speaks of a wicked man that go away from his house and later decide to come back and continue abusing his wife and other relatives

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Iwori Boshe

!won Boshe oba len oba len iule boledi wan wan Indio nigfa abeyere awo leh baleri inle iwori oba ni won' baba Ion; oshe iwori noshenshee abi oshe okolowo bon boshe ebeni Inshe (rile naves laye awo obapa ni boshanshe ifa Says that one only head can't rule two separated lands You can't breed your children Ilt breed and agreeable for them to not get lost. If your mother is dead, she prays for you, and will give you great powers. If you are dominated b y ambition, that will be you los': To save 'won Boshe, we have to give an eyete to odun and a eyele mesan to egun iyele, to her to forgive you To solve problems we blow in that place powder of gun gun of etu with iyefa. Look to whom you give your children to breed to a /aid they abuse them. If you live in heights be careful of derrumbe. You like playing, but you don't have luck in this. Leave that. this will be your luck, playing wilt be your ruin. Take care of you job. because you have problems there. they want to take you off and this is for envy. Okuni: Its have a woman older than you have, you likes her and she is profitable for you because she is very lucky. Look after a woman that visit you house, she will carry you a disgust because another woman and it is because lealousy Take care of your legs, because you can suffer of limpness. Be careful of a person that is limp, he don't like you. Obini: You are thinking in two men but neither of them will be your husband. Don't look yourself so much in the mirror and don' let nobody use your soap or towel, to avoid they throw you out of your place Here we had to feed Oshun at the head of the river To break what had the person prisoner tfa of physics and moral imperfections

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It has a talkative woman that says things to you, don't give her attention because she is daughter of Oshun and has luck Here the woman is in love of herself We may feed Egun with Orumila Speaks of vermin's. The banana is pretty outside : but inside it has vermin's. The saints say that you shall comply with what you have. it has who has less and are waiting for you to have them When a dcg comes to you, pas your hand over rt. It has a mistake with a saint You've a fnght because of a news they gave you. Ebo: for wining. Akuko a little house, 4 little bags, igbin, little bells, 2 eyele, leri of many animals Akuko meyi to elegbara, ogun, Oshosi and ogun. 2 eyele. 2 eya tutu, atitan ile, asho fun fun and puoua, 5 akara, e eyele for kofibon with Oshun, osiadie for Oparaldo in the margin of the river.

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Ebo: Two akuko fun fun, omi Ile olokun, omi of the river asho ara, asho timbelara, bogbo asho, tolo tolo (turkey), in women mark. problems in the wound, that why you can't conceive and you have to drink broth of turkey that before we give to ye-naya in the sea. After that we clean it properly, and we make broth with water from the river and we drink it for seven days. Speak if the father that didn't want that his daughter has relations with young awo son of yemaya and is trying to separate them, carrying
her fish. He saved the life of his daughter
erecting the boat. but when

he was climbing into it, came a wave and carried him away.

Later the fisherwoman married the young awo son of yeriaya and
was His apetevi.