Irete Yero

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá

Odù 214 of 256

Composition

Irete over Iwori

Orishas that speak

Orunmila · Orún · Oshún · Odudúwa · Shangó · Elegbá · Osain · Olokun y Orishaoko · Egun

What Ifá says in this sign

The prayer of Irete Yero · Yoruba

IRETE YERO ORUNMILA TO ABAN ESHO GUNGUN TIYERO, IBI KIBU BABALORUN.

Súyere
OYIKI OYIKI OTARO MIO / OYIKI OYIKI OTARO MIO / OYIKI OYIKI AGUADO TAGUMA / OYIKI OYIKI OTARO MIO.

Ifá says — what Irete Yero tells you

• An Ifá that is foreman of Egun: Irete Yero is the foreman of the Egun obiní, and Orún was in charge of carrying out all the funeral honors. An Ifá of riddles, of puzzles and of divination. An Ifá of the messenger at midday. The Ifá of the herbalist of Orunmila: Irete Yero is Orunmila's herbalist, and here the war between Orunmila and Osain began.
• The Awó of this Odù should make only seven Ifases, because after the seventh he begins to lose his strength; with works and Orunmila's permission, he can make seven more, and there it ends.
• The knife has to be received as soon as possible, since he and his godfather part ways; in this Ifá, the godfather never tells his godchild how a thing is settled.
• The gall bladder and the bones speak: the illness starts from below; heart attack speaks here too.
• Humankind wants to stain your good name; betrayal and envy will always be after you.
• The leafcutter ant speaks, and there is unseen fire over a stolen partner.
• The peacock said that with his eggs thrown down he would destroy the world.
• The Indian spirits speak, and flowers are set for them.
• You get dizzy spells and pass out.
• The father who keeps his daughters away from the world so nobody courts them brings it about that his daughter goes off with the first man who courts her.
• The woman should not pry into her husband's business, since she can fall senseless when she uncovers it, as Oshún did with Osain's secret.
• Having everything, you can end up in prison through your own head.
• Everyone is put out because you live in peace, and for that they throw witchcraft at you and run campaigns against you.
• The women lose patience over the man being late and leave the house, like Oró's three wives.
• David and Solomon speak, father and son, Kings of Israel, and the three female spirits who stand behind the Iyalorde society: Arogbo, Are and Arugbo.
• You take part in the death of a superior.
• By osobo, it costs you work to settle things; husband and wife will always have struggles.
• The three igba (gourds) speak: one with corn, one with a stone and one with water — be quick as the corn, undying as the stone and needed as the water.
• You have to cut your hair often and prune the trees every year.
• When you lend money, never give it out of the money box or out of your pocket: change it first, so it is not worked against you and you are not ruined.
• The acacia speaks, which stands for what does not die: it reminds man that not everything disappears, since the spirit always lives.
• The three jars behind the door speak, which stand for Arogbo, Are and Arugbo, the three warrior spirits of the Iyalorde society.
• It is essential to mount the prenda that guards the house, never to say what it means, and to keep it behind the door.
• The woman gives rogation to the Awó's head and the Awó may give rogation to his wife's; that day the woman does not work: she only goes to church to pray before the Blessed Sacrament.
• The woman who has this Ifá lives with her man because her spiritual entity turns out to be in tune with him, and she lives with that man as long as that bond lasts.
• The woman should receive Ikofafún and the man Awofakán, put on the necklaces and scrub the house with watercress.
• The man should know that a woman is not only for intimate life, but is to be valued in everything.
• Orunmila gives the Awó leave to keep a lover, to look after his apetebí's health.
• The herbs of this Odù: orosun, botón de oro, rompe saragüey, quita maldición and white amaranth.
• Dedicate four eggs to Obarabaniregun.

Proverbs of Irete Yero · Òwe

• “What we chose before birth is what we live through in life.”

• “When the rooster crows, the idle man grumbles.”

• “A dog's dream never comes to anything.”

• “Easy gain makes holes in your pockets.”

• “Happiness wanted to go through hardship.”

• “Do not throw away money or bread, however old it is.”

• “For being good and kind, you lost your town.”

• “You are after a crime, and I cannot be your accomplice.”

• “Humankind was not born to be split into servants and tyrants, but to love and serve one another.”

• “A war of gossip and scheming ruins everything.”

• “Gifts are earthly presents; talents are heavenly ones.”

• “Nobody is left over for seed.”

• “Do not pledge your word, so you do not lose it.”

• “The only thing that is truly yours is your knowledge.”

• “Be hard as the rock, needed as the water and fertile as the corn.”

• “The head is the storehouse of what is well learned.”

• “The king who keeps the staff in his hand does not lose his authority.”

• “When the just increase, the people rejoice; but when tyrants govern, the people groan.”

• “The king who judges the poor truly makes his throne secure forever.”

• “The arrogant man causes quarrels, while the humble one prospers.”

• “Whoever looks after his yams will eat their fruit; whoever sacrifices will be honored.”

• “Do not visit your neighbor too often, so he does not come to loathe you.”

• “Whoever refuses bread and water will go without bread and water.”

• “The king does not take off his crown until he dies.”

Iré and Osogbo

What is born in Irete Yero · Ìbí

• That Irete Yero is the foreman of the Egun obiní.

• Funeral honors and rites.

  From the pact of Awó Obá Nilorun with Ikú and the three Egun: Bumbún, Bambán and Baribán.

• That you cannot be read unless money is set down.

  The Awoses threw away the money from the ebbó, and Orunmila asked them: how would they live?

• Setting three small china figures in the woman's Ikofafún.

• Why women have to turn their faces away when giving obí to Egun.

  By Odudúwa's order in the land of Eru Egun, after Yokan's fright.

• Why the Iworos can be sworn into Orún.

  Awó Ofún Yeré swore them all in by Odudúwa's order.

• The war between Orunmila and Osain.

  Oshún pried into the secret of the spring and Osain left her senseless with his powders.

• Economics and the banking houses, the marking out of the professions, and mathematics.

• Masonry, the secret of the compass and the square, and the use of the acacia in masonic funeral rites.

  From the three machetes thrown into the air that fell in the shape of a compass, and from the acacia tree over Hiram's grave.

• The pruning of trees.

  Oró left Areroria without a branch, hacking at him with a machete, over the loss of his three wives.

• That the obiní with this Odù, a daughter of Shangó, does not live with an Awó.

  Since she kills him.

• That the ebbó of this Ifá is made after six in the evening.

What is forbidden · Eewó

Ebbós of Irete Yero · The sacrifices that open the road

Works of Irete Yero · The workings of the sign

Patakíes of Irete Yero · The roads of the Odù

Frequently asked questions about Irete Yero