Irete Wan Wan

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá

Odù 217 of 256

Composition

Irete over Ojuani

Orishas that speak

Oshún · Elegbá · Eshu Laboni · Osain · Orún · Shangó · Odudúwa · Azojuano (San Lázaro) · Olofin

What Ifá says in this sign

The prayer of Irete Wan Wan · Yoruba

ODUIBIRI BIRI FOBO TABORI BEBO ADIFAFUN ORUNMILA ONIBARA BANIREGUN IRIGUANKA JUIN WIN OSAIN YORO YORO.

Ifá says — what Irete Wan Wan tells you

• Ifá fore ayé: kindness and good come into the house. An Ifá of honor: it speaks of taking and holding a place of honor, like Orunmila on the podium. The Ifá of the ventriloquist. An Ifá of long life on Earth, if the proper sacrifices are made.
• When this sign comes out and the father is still alive, his death may arrive in a short time: the traveling spirit is the parents' pain.
• If you keep your word, you will hold great offices, like Irete Juan Juan with Olofin.
• Have blood tests regularly and look after your throat; you can be left blind, like the prince before the secrets of Osain.
• It speaks of baldness and of arteriosclerosis.
• Looking at what is none of your business costs you dearly, as it did Elegbá with the dormidera.
• The swollen river and the whirlpool speak: see that your children respect the waters.
• It speaks of great depths and secrets in the sorcerer.
• A King dies and Orula performs the Ituto.
• The ebbó has to be made in full: the ayapá made the ebbó but did not give the rooster to the palm, and her secret was revealed.
• The woodpecker, with his song, gave away where his nest was: whoever talks too much loses what is his.
• When the Awó gives an Elegbá of this Odù, a kid goat is taken and given to the Awó's Elegbá and to the aleyo's: it eats as a guest, so it does not knock down the luck.
• About living on a ground floor, where trees can be planted, to avoid trouble and so an iré comes to you.
• The stone for the Elegbá of this sign is found at the foot of a tree by the riverbank.
• About keeping an Osain with a dove's head, heart and feet — and about not eating doves.
• You cannot have anything of Mayombe and you should receive San Lázaro.
• Whoever has a prenda of Osain or of Mayombe thinks that is enough: they have to receive Orula.
• About the work for arteriosclerosis: baths with peregún, majagua flower, saltpeter, abrojo, anise basil, dry wine, hazelnut shells, cinnamon and neck meat.
• The herbs of this Odù: fig, plantain, river flax and sesame.

Proverbs of Irete Wan Wan · Òwe

• “The wandering spirit is a grief to parents.”

• “Whoever copies fails.”

• “The client wins and the opponents lose.”

• “The one who holds out his hand and takes the great fish that leaps into it.”

• “Iron is sharpened with iron, and a man with another man.”

• “Whoever is original creates; whoever copies forges himself.”

• “Whoever is not good as a son will not be good as a father.”

• “Whoever neglects his health sentences himself to illness.”

• “Wisdom is never stored in a barrel with no bottom, or in a hollow head.”

• “Whoever does not remember his ancestors bends the destiny of his own blood.”

• “Whoever turns away from an open door will find it shut.”

• “Fire only burns whoever takes it for granted.”

• “Whoever rebels against Olorun by worshipping riches does nothing but work his own ruin.”

• “Out of the thunder and into the lightning.”

• “Whoever looks after the fig tree eats figs; whoever looks after a friendship receives honors.”

• “Whoever neglects today what he loves will weep for it lost tomorrow.”

Iré and Osogbo

What is born in Irete Wan Wan · Ìbí

• Why Osain eats turtle (ayapá).

  The ayapá blamed the palm for the hunger and it was her doing; Awó Aladi found her out with Osain's red-hot osun.

• The consecration in Ifá of Amonso and Amoro.

  The first consecration of two Awoses together, before the river and the ceiba, watched by Olofin and Shangó.

• The güijes.

  From the two brothers of the river: the envious one, by copying, turned into a güije.

• The gardens of the world and the ashé of flowers as a help.

• Burying the ebbó ipín (ebbó Iquín).

  Molaño and Molabo speak, the Awoses who wait at the river in the form of Egun for the ebbó ipín.

• The ventriloquist.

  The dove of the ebbó answered for Orunmila without his opening his mouth, and they made him president of the society of Osain.

• The vault of Osain and of Orún.

  From the mad King of the land of Inle Yoroyoro: from his remains were made the secrets that gave the town back its light.

• Why there are sweet oranges and bitter ones in the world.

  Oshún's sentence for the ingratitude of her people: «from now on not all my oranges will be sweet».

• The enslaving of Elegbá Eshu Laboni by Oshún and the use of the dormidera.

• The God Bina, God of the lands of the world.

• The pact between the King, the river, Oshún and the great fish who came between them.

  King Laro held out his hand and the great fish leapt into it: he took the title of Ataoja.

• The Adó Shure for Elegbá.

What is forbidden · Eewó

The full eewó of this Odù, open to everyone — with the road each ban came out of.

• You cannot have birds in the house or raise them.

• Do not eat doves.

  Your Osain carries the head, heart, and feet of a dove.

• You cannot have anything of Mayombe.

• You cannot cross the sea or the river until they tell you.

• Do not allow anyone to whistle at the door of your house.

• Do not wear the stone ring that you have.

  You can lose it and it is not good for you.

• Do not look at what is not your business.

  It costs you dearly, as it did Elegbá with Oshún's dormidera.

Ebbós of Irete Wan Wan · The sacrifices that open the road

Works of Irete Wan Wan · The workings of the sign

Patakíes of Irete Wan Wan · The roads of the Odù

Frequently asked questions about Irete Wan Wan