Odi Iroso (Odi Roso)

nº 65 of 256

The roar of the sea: breathing is born here — the nose keeps watch while the body sleeps — and the Awó made himself king with his own hands.

20 patakíes 6 eewó 14 ebbós and works 14 proverbs

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Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) is Odù number 65 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Odi family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 20 patakíes (3 with the full text), its proverbs, 14 ebbós and works and the signs it shows in the consultation — with the full eewó in plain sight; the detail of iré and osogbo and the full recipes open with The Notebook, in English.

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá: Odù 65 of 256
Composition: Odi over Iroso
In the Diloggún: 7-4 · Odí tonti Iroso
Orishas that speak: Oshún Ibu Awayemi · Azojuano (San Lázaro) · Shangó · Osanyin · Alawana Ashegun Otá · Aggayú · Obatalá · Eshú Alufama

What Ifá says in this sign

Odi Roso is the roar of the raging sea and the color of dusk: breathing was born here — and its mystery: while the body sleeps, the nose keeps watch. That is how this sign lives: with a guard awake in the dead of night, because while you sleep, your enemy is working.

Its power is one of dreams and of spirit: you were born to be a spiritist — the spirits weigh on you more than the Saints do — and you have a guardian Eggun who reveals everything to you in dreams. But you share the night with another one: an obsessing Eggun that comes to lie with you and saps your strength — paraldo and ceremony, and that intruder is sent away. Learn to tell your two night visitors apart.

«While the body sleeps, the nose keeps watch — and while Odi Roso sleeps, his guardian Eggun is at work.»The pulse of Odi Iroso (Odi Roso)

Its story of glory is a self-made one: with his own hands he made himself king — this is an Ifá of the self-taught: no one manages to hold power over him, because he learns on his own. But it carries the fall of Osun: you fight your way to the top and all of a sudden you lose everything — to get back up, go to Osha and to Orunmila, and you will get back up. You have lost two pieces of luck: the ebbó brings them back.

Two rules of dignity: do not weep over money, or over whatever hardship you go through — this sign holds its head up — and know that you will be slandered at every consecration, as Orunmila was falsely accused. What you see, you do not talk about; time always clears you, and whoever laughs at Odi Roso comes to grief.

Its happiness has an exact address: live with a daughter of Oshún and worship Azojuano — whichever Saint you are a child of, that is where the strength of this odu lies, along with Shangó, who raised you. A child is coming who will change your luck: wait for him with your ebbó made — the king who made himself with his own hands crowns his own people too.

The sign in one line

Send away the intruding dead, do not weep over money and love your daughter of Oshún — Odi Roso made himself king with his own hands, and he crowns himself again every time he falls.

The prayer of Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) · Yoruba

Odi Roso Awo ashe mowe, adifafun ologbo, adifafun oma osa, adifo ekute ayayu koro adafe aya.

Súyere
Ade lowo, ade ni orisha, ade ni Obbá.

Ifá says — what Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) tells you

Kaferefún Shangó, Osanyin and Orunmila. Maferefún Oshún (Ibu Awayemi) and Azojuano.
This is an Ifá of loose conduct and of stains: while you sleep, your enemy is working.
This Ifá is deeply envied, but you have a guardian Eggun who always helps you win and who reveals everything to you in dreams.
This is an Ifá of the self-taught: no one is able to hold power over this Awó, because he learns on his own.
Here Osun falls over: the person fights to climb and, once at the top, loses everything at once; getting up again calls for going to Osha and to Orunmila.
The spirits weigh on you more than the Saints do: you were born to be a spiritist.
With his own hands he made himself king; he always sees his enemies come to grief, and whoever laughs at him dies.
Illness in the waist and the backside; trouble with the testicles, the ears and the nerves, along with impotence, a swollen groin and sleeplessness.
An obsessing Eggun that comes at night to lie with you and saps your strength.
For a woman: trouble with her period, vaginal difficulties and frigidity; and the daughters of this Odù have to bind their husbands so as not to lose them.
Mysticism and spirituality: the soul of Odi Roso has the color of dusk.
A child is coming who, when he arrives, will change your luck.
Grown children get in their parents' way at home, and there is hardship to live through.

Proverbs of Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) · Òwe

“While the body sleeps, the nose goes on breathing.”
“With my own hands I made myself king.”
“All that glitters is not gold.”
“Whoever helps themselves gets good help.”
“Whoever laughs at Odi Iroso dies.”
“Sleep is the breath Olorun gives to man.”
“No dream lets us rest with a blocked nose.”
“Revenge gives no relief to any pain.”
“Money that costs no effort is dangerous.”
“Whoever has never been in love does not know what love is.”
“Someone else's partner lights the passion and ruins the peace.”
“You yourself are the best keeper of your own business.”
“What we chose before we were born is what we live through in life.”
“You know the parrot by its red tail, and a man by what he does.”

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Iré and Osogbo

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What is born in Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) · Ìbí

Breathing, and the fact that the nose keeps watch while the body sleeps.
Okoriko did not know how to check the man lying in the grass; Eribote did, hovering over his nose to see whether it moved.
The two halves of the brain.
This is an Ifá that rules mental power, above all at the hour of dusk, when the talking with the Eggun begins.
Confusion about the opposite sex.
The person is thrown off balance from childhood by having seen grown people in the sexual act.
That dry grass bends over.
Before dying, this person's hands seize up.
That the caracara eats the eyes of the dead.
In the earliest days, until Eribote had taken the eyes out of a corpse, no other bird would touch it.
Oshún Ibu Awayemi, mistress of the nostrils.
She is born in Oshe Iroso; she is given a goat gelded from a young age, with adanes in the nose.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

Do not eat black-eyed peas.
They are placed as Adimú for your Guardian Angel, whichever Osha it may be.
Do not cut your hair.
The scissors and the razor do not go to your head.
Do not jump over hoses or pipes.
If you must cross them, step on them, so that your manly power does not weaken.
Do not deal with mad people or the mentally ill.
Do not cry over money or over the misery you may be going through.
Do not keep friendships or business with imperfect people or with effeminate men.
At a certain moment they may reveal a secret that compromises you.

Ebbós of Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) · The sacrifices that open the road

Beating enemiesThe secret of Alawana Ashegun Otá🔒 The Notebook Beating enemiesThe bottle of the enemies🔒 The Notebook Beating enemiesInshé-Osanyin against the law🔒 The Notebook LoveWork to hold on to your wife🔒 The Notebook LoveTo settle down with women🔒 The Notebook Keeping death awayParaldo of the obsessing Eggun🔒 The Notebook Keeping death awayOmiero for the nerves and for sleeplessness🔒 The Notebook LossEbbó to win back the two pieces of luck🔒 The Notebook LossThe chair no one sits in🔒 The Notebook MoneySo you do not dry up like a fig🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) · The workings of the sign

Beating enemiesTo get free of trouble🔒 The Notebook HealthGuinea fowl to Azojuano for sleeplessness🔒 The Notebook HealthThe Inshé of the porcupine🔒 The Notebook HealthA complete Osanyin with his Osun🔒 The Notebook

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Patakíes of Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) · The roads of the Odù

1When Alawana kept dirtying Oshún's house

Azojuano lived with Oshún, but his old helper Eshú Alawana, who ate everything rotten, was not tolerated by Oshún and would turn himself into rubbish to dirty the house and bring in sickness. Orunmila revealed who was behind it, and Azojuano gave Alawana a pit behind the door so he would guard it.

In the land of Iyebu Teyun Lashe Lenu lived Azojuano and Yalorde Oshún Okere, owners of that region. But before living with Oshún, Azojuano had had a helper, Eshú Alawana, who ate everything rotten; Oshún could not stand him because of the stench, and Alawana had to go and live in the cemetery, carrying Yewa's food. He loved Azojuano, his master, dearly and would go looking for him, but he could not get in. Spurned, he watched Oshún, and whenever she was not paying attention he came in turned into rubbish and dirtied the house, bringing sickness and tragedy.

Worn out by so much trouble, Oshún talked Azojuano into going to Orunmila, who saw this Odù and said that someone who had always gone about with him, and was now shut out and forgotten, was harming him in that endless searching of his. He told them to sweep the house singing and take the rubbish to the door with an akuayerú; when Azojuano sang, Alawana rose up out of the rubbish and they all saw who it was. Azojuano told him: «You and I have to go about together, by Olofin's design; you will live in a pit behind the door». They handed him his secret — a puppy — and three young roosters to swear him in, and Alawana was left guarding the door of Odi Iroso against every kind of sorcery, forever. That is why the secret of Alawana Ashegun Otá must be mounted.

2The daughter of Inle Oba

Osia, daughter of Obba and Inle, was left traumatized as a child by what she saw between her mother and Shangó. As a grown woman she married a sorcerer who did the same to her and left her frigid; her aunt Abata took her to Orunmila, who parted her from her husband and made her an ebbó and an Inshé to clear the Eggun out of her mind.

Obba was first married to Inle, and from that union Osia was born. Over the years Obba stopped attending to her husband in intimacy, and Inle, after consulting Orunmila, left her. Later Obba met Shangó and was already living as his wife before the wedding; one night Osia got up and caught a man having anal sex with her mother, and she let out a scream of horror. Even though Obba married Shangó to spare the girl the shame, the harm was already done: Osia was left with a trauma that made her see ghosts and dream of enemies.

As an adult, Osia married a rich merchant who was also a sorcerer, and he did that same thing with her, so the trauma came back and made her frigid; to control her he rubbed witchcraft powders on her. Abata, Inle's sister and a sorceress, saw her wasting away and took her to Orunmila, who saw this Odù and explained that all those troubles came from an impression from childhood, that she had to be taken away from that vicious husband and that ebbó had to be made to erase the trauma. Osanyin Eweyele set up an Inshé for her to drive the Eggun from her mind. Osia moved in with her father Inle and her aunt Abata, got back her full womanhood and beat all her troubles.

3The caracara and the vulture

The caracara was going hungry because it could not find food. Orunmila made it an ebbó and promised to send it someone. The vulture, having put its head into a live cow, was left bald; Orunmila sent it to the caracara, and that is how they settled it: the caracara eats the eyes, and the vulture eats the rest.

The caracara lived apart from the other birds and had a very hard time of it, even going hungry, because it struggled to find food. It went to Orunmila, who saw this Odù for it, made it an ebbó and told it to go home, that he would send someone to solve its problem.

Meanwhile, the vulture saw a cow lying down and, thinking it was dead, put its head into it; the cow clamped down, and the vulture, struggling to pull its head out, was left completely scraped bare, with no feathers. It went to Orunmila, who saw the same Odù and the same ebbó for it, and told it: «Go to the caracara's house so it can check over whatever you are about to eat». That is how they solved the problem of food: the caracara eats only the eyes, and the vulture eats the rest.

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Frequently asked questions about Odi Iroso (Odi Roso)

What does the Odù Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) mean in Ifá?

The roar of the sea: breathing is born here — the nose keeps watch while the body sleeps — and the Awó made himself king with his own hands.

What number is Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) is Odù number 65 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Odi family.

Which orishas speak in Odi Iroso (Odi Roso)?

In the Odù Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) these orishas speak: Oshún Ibu Awayemi, Azojuano (San Lázaro), Shangó, Osanyin, Alawana Ashegun Otá, Aggayú, Obatalá, Eshú Alufama.

What is a proverb of the Odù Odi Iroso (Odi Roso)?

One of the proverbs of Odi Iroso (Odi Roso) says: «While the body sleeps, the nose goes on breathing.».

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