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THE ODUS OF IROSUN AND OWANRIN Irosun-Etura

When he woke up in the morning, he sounded Ifa on the significance of his dream and he
was told to serve Esu with a he-goat, adding the flames coming out of bonfire (majala in
Yoruba and ebibi-eren in Bini), roasted corn and seed yam. He made the sacrifice and the Ifa
preparation was tied at the entrance to his house. After the sacrifice, Esu went to the meeting of
witches and caused a rift among them. They all fought till day break and a spate of open
confession ensued. His wife confessed that she was responsible for arresting her husband's
potency. She disclosed that she was being forced meanwhile, to return the husband's potency to
him.
The matter was subsequently remitted to the Oba who ordered that the wife of Ajanaule should be executed by offering her as sacrifice to the ground divinity. His subsequent
marriages were happy and productive. The wife had confessed the names of the elderly Awos
who suborned her to attack her husband because he had stolen the show from them. All
the Awos mentioned in the confession were made to go on trial by ordeal and they were all
caught and subsequently died one after the other.
When this !fa appears at Ugbodu, the person should be told never to marry a woman
procured for him except one chosen by himself. The problem of impotence is one for which the
special sacrifice has to be made for him without delay. He will be very successful in his job, but
success will generate envy and enmity for him. He should make sacrifice.
Divination Made for Ogun:
Ofaso bo ri oso, Ogbe bu ika ton agbalagba to kpe ibu
ika. Ori arare ni yio hule. Adafa fun Ogun nijo do teja fun
Ogun.
The person who covered his face with a cloth when he fouled the air. The man who sews
evil will reap evil - were the Awos who made divination for Orunmila when he was going to
prepare Ifa for Ogun at the insistence of Orisa-Nla. Orunmila refused to do it because he said
"Ewe t'ashe ki'ru, Oro to a mo tele ki'ni lara" That is, "A severed leaf does not grow again.
An information already known is not difficult to narrate." That was his figure of speech for
predicting that Ogun would repay his good turn with ingratitude. At the insistence of Orisa-Nla,
Orunmila prepared Ifa for Ogun and through to his earlier prediction, Ogun repaid him with
crass ingratitude.
When it appears at divination, the person should be advised not to repay a good turn
with ingratitude, lest he would suffer immensely and he would be cursed and no on would
ever be able to revoke it. Whether a man or a woman, the divinee is a ingrate.
The Divination Made for Orunmila When orisa Sent Ogun To Fight Him:
A fi igba korodo gbon odo ino ngbon le on agbalagba i to ba gbe'bu ika, yio hu ni on omo re

ni ola. These were the Ifa priests who made divination for Orunmila when Orisa-tolu-yeb-gbe, the
husband of Yemowo requested Ogun to fight Orunmila to a finish. Orunmila's fame and popularity
had come to earn him the displeasure of all other diviners around. After his fellow Ifa priest had
tried and failed to fight him, it was the turn of the divine chiefs to have a go at him. Orisa-toluyegbe procured the high priest of the Ogun divinity to embark on a crusade for eliminating IrosunEtura for stealing

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the show from everybody.


At his usual morning divination. Ifa warned Irosun-Etura that more powerful

mies were plotting to fight him. He was told to make sacrifice with white cloth, hegoat, and parrot's feather. He made the sacrifice. Meanwhile, Ogun told Orisa-tolu-yegbe that
he did not know the way to Orunmila's house in Owa town. Orisa-tolu-yegbe gave Ogun
the description of Orunmila's house as the one having a palm frond in front of it in the
quarter called Ona-lranya.

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After enjoying the sacrifice, Esu altered the descriptions and locations. What
Orisa-toluyegbe did not tell Ogun was that he (Orisa) also lived in the same locality. On the night
that Ogun was to attack, Esu transposed the palm frond in front of Orunmila's house with
the white cloth in front of Orisa-tolu-yegbe's house.
As soon as the first cock crowed in the early hours of the morning, Ogun went to
Owo and began to search for the house with a palm frond in the front of it in the Onalranya quarters. As soon as Ogun located the house, he started killing all the inmates he
came across. When the children of Orisa-tolu-yegbe saw what of the girl than the crude
Onobule. His friend was often outtalking him and gaining more attention from the girl.
As soon as Onobule began to have the cold shoulders from the girl, he went to
Orunmila for divination and he was told that he was going to lose his fiance to another
man unless he made sacrifice. He was told to; give he-goat to Esu, rabbit to night, and
serve his head at the foot of a palm tree with a guinea-fowl. He made the sacrifices. Not
knowing that his friend was the rival scheming to overthrow him, in his characteristic
naivete, he went to tell his friend what he was told at divination.
When he was subsequently going to the girl's place, he again invited his friend to
accompany him. On getting there, they were served with palm wine. As the friend was
drinking, Esu blinked his eyes to him and he became tipsy. In his delirium, he
confessed that he had been scheming to seduce the girl from Onobule. His confession
angered the parents of the girl into giving the girl to Onobule right away. The Night
did their own bit by making him to fall deeply asleep when all the nuptial ceremonies
were taking place.
When it appears at Ugbodu and at divination, the person should be told not to be
too trusting with friends. He should be advised to give he-goat to Esu and to serve his
head with guinea-fowl while backing Ifa shrine so that close associates might not deprive
him of his rightful entitlement.

The Divination Made for Him Before Leaving Heaven:


Efun fun Lere - was the Awo who made divination for Orunmila when he was
leaving heaven. He was advised not to practice [fa on earth but to take to trading.
He was told to make sacrifice with sixteen pigeons, a goat, a piece of white cloth
and 201 cowries to his guardian angel. He was also told to serve Esu with a hegoat, corn, yam, plantain and cocoyam. He made all the sacrifices be fore leaving
for the world.
On getting to the world, he began to practice lfism, but did not have a
settled life. He waE otherwise very effective as an Ifa priest, but he did not
prosper by it. When he subsequently went fo

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divination, he was told that he had strayed away from the path of his destiny, and
that he was supposed to have taken to trading. He was told to serve Ifa by decorating
its shrine with white chalk and white cloth. He was told to serve OlOkun with a
pigeon, a bag of cowries, money, and chalk, and to serve Esu with a he-goat, corn,
yam, plantain and cocoyam. He did all the sacrifices.
When Olokun received the sacrifice, he remembered the sacrifice which
lrosun-Ofun made to him in heaven and the pledge of support he made to him.
Olokun reacted by dispatching his fair-skinned, daughter, dressed in white apparel
to look for Irosun-Ofun at Oja-ajigbomekon. At the same time, Irosun-Ofun was
told to dress in white clothes when going to the market. When Olokun's daughter
got to the market, she was the centre of attraction, but spoke to nobody. She was
looking for the man dressed in white clothes as her father told her.
Not long afterwards, Irosun-Ofun, also dressed in white, met Olokun's daughter
and they fell in love at once. When he introduced himself, she offered to follow
him to his house. When she got to his house to see the white decoration and
adornment all around, she told him that his house provided a suitable environment
for her to stay. He soon discovered that the only food she ate was white chalk,
which gave him an idea of who she was.
Meanwhile, the woman advised him to be dressing always in white and to be
following her o the market. On every market day, her servants brought wares from
heaven to sell on earth, after which she was given the money realized from the
sales. On the following market day her servants came with beads, jewels and
elephant tusks which were all sent to Orunmila's house. Most of the materials
brought by Olokun's servants, had previously not been seen any where on earth.
The Oba of the town was subsequently attracted by them and he bought some
of the from Orunmila at a prize of 200 men and 200 women.

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