Irete Ansa

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá

Odù 221 of 256

Composition

Irete over Osa

Orishas that speak

Shangó · Oyá · Obatalá (Oshanlá) · Elegbá · Olofin · Olokun · Osun · Egun de la madre

What Ifá says in this sign

The prayer of Irete Ansa · Yoruba

KERA AWO MOWATE OMO SHANGO OMO OYA AYENI ONI BABALAWO UBANYORO BANYOKO IFA BANYOKO ORISHA BANYOKO YENKORO YENI IFA YORO YERENI KAFEREFUN SHANGO MAFEREFUN ORUNMILA.

Súyere
EMI ALAMO LOMI SHANGO BOGBO ARAYE EME KELEKE EWE AYO EWE AYO.

Ifá says — what Irete Ansa tells you

• An Ifá of frustration and unhappiness: the Prince wanted to be King and never could be. An Ifá of rain: do not let that water fall on you. The Ifá of the liar: a liar is never saved before Ifá — you are saved, if I speak. The Ifá of the mother: it is the mother who blesses; the shadow of the mother's Egun will always help you out of trouble.
• Too much joy can kill you: a blessing or a happiness is coming, but it can slip out of your hands.
• You can break both legs in a fall or an accident; look after your legs, your intimate excesses and your drinking.
• It speaks of a parting between godfather and godchild: they should do the work of the bonfire in the bush with a rooster, to avoid it.
• The Awó of this Odù shows off, thinks himself handsome and likes to live on appearances.
• The woman does not fall pregnant: give a goat and a rooster to Elegbá.
• The couple cannot make the marriage work: do the works for it, with the speckled hens to Oyá.
• You tend to be lazy: idleness is the vice that keeps you from work and from effort.
• They poison the food and the fruit; you face competition in your love affairs.
• People are liars or false: a friend in appearance can be a false friend.
• Obatalá pulls people out of the hole and afterward they cheat him with false promises, like the frogs of the two hundred songs.
• The young one in the house, between fourteen and sixteen, is going through solitary habits made worse by things he saw at home and did not accept: he should be brought into harmony with his mother and treated gently, since his head is full of complexes.
• The pigment of the skin speaks: vitiligo.
• Sign papers to settle what is yours.
• Look after your post or your position, since they want to put another man in; you work for other people's benefit and see no reward, since someone takes credit for what you do, like the impostor of Shangó.
• Respect the waters: you can be involved in a death.
• Orunmila made atefá in prison with his dinner plate, a rib bone as an irofá and iyefá scraped off the wall: the ants carried the ebbó and Elegbá set him free.
• About giving rogation to your mother's head with two doves, so that within a year she does not die; if the mother is dead, food is given to her Egun with the tile, the four doves and the sixteen candles.
• About the four ebboses to different cities, with four roosters for Shangó, Elegbá, Ogún and Oshosi, each one in a pot with three clubs.
• The Awó should give Shangó 200 rams, 200 fish and 200 roosters — and what he does is give him a guinea fowl, saying: «Allow me to make you a sacrifice in keeping with my means», with the three brooms to sweep the heart of his house.
• About not sitting in a broken chair and about not putting off what you have to do.
• About asking God with your whole heart, because otherwise you will see nothing.
• About not crossing the sea and not jumping over holes.
• The herbs of this Odù: manajú (its resin heals wounds on the feet) and llerén (an antidote to poison).

Proverbs of Irete Ansa · Òwe

• “Whoever owes Babá should pay him.”

• “Fly carefully, bat, or you will lose your clothing in flight.”

• “Too much joy makes you ill and kills you.”

• “A liar is never saved before Ifá.”

• “You are saved, if I speak.”

• “I am King of Kings, said Shangó.”

• “A friend in appearance can be a false friend.”

• “The wicked man flees though nobody is chasing him.”

• “When a country is going badly, the number of rulers grows.”

• “The fanatic's happiness is clothing that falls to rags.”

• “When the head is full, we call the barber; when the river is full, the boatman.”

• “The body's enemy is illness; the cure is its friend.”

• “Complaining is the father of misfortune.”

• “Arguing does not prove intelligence.”

• “Do not hand your wisdom to someone who may become your enemy.”

• “Against the wise man, ignorance can do nothing.”

• “Beatings only teach you to bow your head, not to use it.”

• “Whoever crushes the poor is rain that destroys the harvest.”

Iré and Osogbo

What is born in Irete Ansa · Ìbí

• That six candles and six stones are set before Shangó at his consecration.

  From the road of the true Shangó and the false one: the secret of Irete Ansa is the six odduará inside the pot.

• Setting a hand of Ifá before Shangó to keep the power in hand.

• Jewels and the ruin of beauty.

• Saying at the moyugba: ASHE EGUN QUE TIMBELORUN, ASHE BABA QUE TIMBELORUN, ASHE YEYE QUE TIMBELORUN, ASHE OLUO QUE TIMBELORUN.

  From the road of the land of Moñaña, where the Egun poured their ashé into the food of the ebbó.

• The monster of the world that came out of the sea.

  Shangó calmed it with the three meals and made it swear that everything would last until its time came.

• The true Shangó and the false Shangó: there is only one Shangó.

• That Olordumare laid down that everything on Earth lasts until its time comes.

• The Ifá of the five bear cubs and vitiligo.

  The skin of the disobedient bear covered Shangó's skin where the pigment was gone.

• That the cockroaches eat the money.

  Do not keep money in banknotes.

• The destruction of the omologú (the sorcerer).

  Whoever, in order not to die, has to pass through Osha or Ifá.

• The three clubs and the pot.

  The kumombó of Shangó, which lives in the pot of Irete Ansa.

What is forbidden · Eewó

Ebbós of Irete Ansa · The sacrifices that open the road

Works of Irete Ansa · The workings of the sign

Patakíes of Irete Ansa · The roads of the Odù

Frequently asked questions about Irete Ansa