Odi Tura

Also called Odi Otura, Odi Atakofeño, Odi Atauro, Oddi Atakofeño

nº 73 of 256 · Edited by Ricco Ledesma

Where diabetes was born, when Olofin's honey was traded for sugar: the luck comes by someone else's hand, and Obatalá's sorcerer defends you.

21 patakíes 6 eewó 12 ebbós and works 15 proverbs

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Odi Tura is Odù number 73 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Odi family. It is also written as Odi Otura or Odi Atakofeño or Odi Atauro or Oddi Atakofeño. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 21 patakíes (3 in full in plain sight, with their teaching, ebbó and chants), its proverbs, 12 ebbós and works and the signs it shows in the consultation — with the full eewó in plain sight; the rest of the iré and osogbo and the full recipes open with The Notebook, in English.

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá: Odù 73 of 256
Composition: Odi over Otura
Orishas that speak: Obatalá · Osanyin · Shangó · Yemayá · Logun Ede · Eshú Bi · Eggun Ada Kuatiya

What Ifá says in this sign

Odi Tura, also known as Odi Atakofeño, is the sign where diabetes was born: when people traded the honey Olofin had given them for sugar, some stayed healthy and others fell ill from the very same thing. Here were also born the strength of Obatalá, with a fury that, once blinded, spares not even his own children, his sorcerer Obiroso Osain, and the collapse of things. In this sign the white people came into the world. Its ruling is a warning: what you have achieved can fall apart if you do not obey Ifá and do not master your own fury.

But the sign also brings luck, and a curious kind: it is not brought by your own hand, but by the hand of someone who is with you, so when you gamble, do it in company. You may win the lottery, and what you came looking for you already have. Someone will come from another place to propose something that suits you. Obatalá counts you among his own, and like the vulture, you never lack sustenance. Keep well what others confide in you: in Odi Tura discretion brings gain, power and prosperity.

«They swapped Olofin's honey for sugar, and diabetes was born: obedience is the only safe sweetener.»The pulse of Odi Tura

At home everyone wants to be in charge, and you and your partner fight because you do not think alike: that discord is what keeps luck from arriving, so seek peace first. There is a trap around you, and people close to you criticize you out of envy. If you have something hidden, make sure it does not come to light, because it would bring you trouble with the law. Do not give shelter to any stranger or become a godparent at a baptism, and avoid the street after midnight, when spirits cling to you. The men of this sign are blinded by women.

Odi Tura speaks of vices, of excess and of families where parents and children disrespect each other. Protect your children: this sign warns of incest and sexual abuse within the family itself, between parents and children and between siblings, and also of relations between alakuatas. Never take advantage of someone who is not in their right mind, like the daughters who abused their drunken father and were disowned. Do not make Ifá for a doubtful person, nor for an adodi or an alakuata. Control your anger, because fury without measure can hurt those you love most, and offenses leave a mark even when forgiveness is asked for afterward. Give up gambling, above all betting to win back what you lost.

In health, watch your sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure, and take care of your heart and chest together with your doctor. It is also a sign of blindness: protect your eyesight. There may be bone pain, impotence, gland problems and sexually transmitted diseases. If a woman in the house is expecting a child, consult in time, because that child comes to take its mother's place and she is in danger during childbirth. With obedience, calm and the ebbó fulfilled, what seemed to be collapsing stands firm again.

The sign in one line

Take care of your blood, make peace at home and play in company. The luck of Odi Atakofeño arrives through someone else's hand, and Obatalá's brujo defends you.

The prayer of Odi Tura · Yoruba

Odi Atauro legun ede adodi ofoku okurin sembe luju atena Ifá shosho le owore omo ologbojodu awo ifa sharoto, adifafun Eshu faum intori arun, kaferefún Agbanukue, kaferefún Orunmila.

Súyere
Akashosho ofumi la awa kamadajun.

Ifá says — what Odi Tura tells you

It is an Ifá of vices and of sexual aberrations of men and women, even with animals, and of the profanation of respect between parents and children.
It is an Ifá of blindness: Orunmila could not see and his wife guided him, but there were always disagreements between them.
It points to the collapse of things: everything achieved and all plans can be destroyed.
In the house, everyone wants to rule, and the wife does not obey her husband.
The person prefers spiritism to the Santo and to Ifá, and this Odù foretells loneliness in the last stage of life.
About diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, problems of the heart and chest, and glandular conditions.
Of death in childbirth: if the woman is pregnant, it must be determined what to do for her, because that child comes to take the mother's place.
Of sexually transmitted diseases, bone pain, impotence and vision problems.
About the woman who looks at herself naked in front of the mirror, in love with her body, and wants to get rid of something that gives her a complex.
About a person with a strange character, an inferiority complex and worries about their hair and breasts.
About homosexuality: you must be careful about doing Ifá for homosexuals.

Proverbs of Odi Tura · Òwe

“When I know how to keep secrets, I will gain profits.”
“Although all men use sugar, some stay healthy and others fall ill.”
“Men are blinded by women.”
“Both the father and the mother want to see their child healthy.”
“The hand you cannot cut off, kiss it.”
“The road to a bad life seems sweet, but it is a wound in the heart and a hole in the pocket.”
“A wise head hates arrogance and loves simplicity.”
“Better an ally than a defeated one.”
“Green wood does not make a good fire.”
“Long life and old age depend on right conduct.”
“The hoe is the only one that looks after the wellbeing of the earth.”
“There is no better cloak in this world than the mother's blessing.”
“A bribe buys the mind and condemns the soul.”
“Whoever fines the just and strikes the noble will not go unpunished.”
“The one with a calm spirit knows how to listen, and only the one who listens understands.”

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Iré and Osogbo

Three iré and three osogbo of this sign, open to everyone.

Iré · what the sign brings

They can win the lottery.
What they come looking for, they already have.
Someone comes to fetch them from another place to discuss a matter that suits them.

Osogbo · what the sign warns

They suffer from diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure, and their heart and chest hurt.
Their bones hurt, they have problems with eyesight and with the glands, and they suffer impotence.
They may have deformities of the body and diseases from sexual contagion.

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What is born in Odi Tura · Ìbí

Diabetes.
Men left the bees' honey, Olofin's blessing, for the sugar of the ireke, and fell ill in the blood; the remedy is in Osain and in obedience.
The strength of Obatalá, with the fury that, when it goes blind, sweeps away even his own children.
With the power of pepper he killed his enemies, but he also frightened his children until they calmed him with poplar and ataré with honey.
Sexual lack of restraint and disrespect toward the sacred bond of children with their parents.
It is an Odù of aberrations where people even have sex with animals and profane the respect due to parents, children and siblings.
The sorcerer of Obatalá, Obiroso-Osanyin.
Osain left one of his secrets to Obatalá so that no one could betray him or close his path.
The collapse of things.
Everything achieved and all plans can fall apart; everything is ruined.
That although all men consume sugar, some stay healthy and others fall ill.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

Do not be out in the street after midnight.
You can catch spirits or Eggun, like the man who made love with the woman of the cemetery.
Do not make Ifá for men who love men without investigating the person well.
To spare yourself a disgrace; he may have hidden weaknesses.
Do not baptize anyone.
A misfortune will come upon you from quarrels with the compadres, caused by envy.
Do not exterminate ants; allow them to eat the food.
Do not take anyone into your house.
To avoid the ruin of the house.
A wife must not be unfaithful to her husband, and vices and corruption must be given up.

Ebbós of Odi Tura · The sacrifices that open the road

HealthThe secret of Kayadun against diabetes🔒 The Notebook HealthA bunch of bananas for Shangó🔒 The Notebook HealthOmiero for blindness🔒 The Notebook LoveEbbó of Awo Awani for the wife and for the eyes🔒 The Notebook Overcoming enemiesThe ebbó of the vulture and the spikes🔒 The Notebook Overcoming enemiesThe sorcerer Obiroso-Osanyin🔒 The Notebook Keeping death awayFood for the spirit Ada Kuatiya🔒 The Notebook LossTwo black hens for Orunmila🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Odi Tura · The workings of the sign

Overcoming enemiesGiving sight to the Eshú of the house🔒 The Notebook LoveThe white-eyed fish for keeping two together🔒 The Notebook HealthFruit for Yemayá🔒 The Notebook Overcoming enemiesShangó's red flag🔒 The Notebook

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Patakíes of Odi Tura · The roads of the Odù

1The hawk that stuck itself with the spines of the ebbó

The vulture and the hawk treated each other as close friends, but the hawk felt envy toward her and never stopped criticizing her. He accused her of being lazy and of spending the day sleeping, and told her she ought to get up early to prepare food. She answered: “God always keeps my food for me, and so I do not worry about looking for it.”

Those answers made the hawk furious, and he resolved to devour her. However, the vulture sleeps with one eye closed and the other open, and he never found the moment.

When she noticed the wickedness of her friend, the vulture went to consult Orunmila. He saw this odu in the oracle and ordered an ebbó with a rooster, a young rooster and some spines, which she had to leave in the countryside. She had barely set it there when the hawk arrived. When he saw the chicken he pounced on it, the spines of the ebbó stuck into him and he died on the spot. In this way the vulture got free of her enemy, and that is why she never lacks food.

What it teaches

The envy of someone close can be more dangerous than it seems, even when it appears as simple criticism. Whoever fulfills the marked ebbó lets the enemy fall into his own trap, with no need to fight.

The vulture's ebbó

Spines, a young rooster and a rooster, to leave in the countryside.

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2The Rooster and the Goat Fight Over the Females

The goat entered the territory of the females and lost his head, since he did not know which one to settle on. A little later the rooster appeared with the same eagerness, and from that moment peace ended and the confrontation between the two began.

Obatalá learned of it and traveled there; seeing what was happening, he summoned the goat and the rooster and gave them advice so that they would live in calm, but neither listened to him. As everything stayed the same, he went to see Orunmila, who consulted Osode and found the odu Odi Otura. Ifá answered Obatalá that he should let them continue the life they were leading.

What it teaches

The ambition to keep everything destroys peace. When someone will not accept advice even from the one he respects most, sometimes all that remains is to let him follow his own way and bear the consequences.

Prayer of this path

ODI ATAKO LEÑI APA AUN TUYEFE LOYUFE LOYUNSI ADIFAFUN OBALASHE.

3The White Woman of the Cemetery

A man went to Orunmila to consult. Orunmila performed Osode, found the odu Odi Otura and advised him, on behalf of Ifá, to be cautious with the women one meets at night. The man did not take the warning seriously.

One night he came upon a woman with white skin and very long hair, of great beauty. He forgot what Ifá had told him, followed her and spoke to her with the intention of winning her; she accepted. They walked together and, without his noticing, reached the cemetery. There he caressed her and they had relations, and suddenly a strong chill ran through his body: he understood that the woman was a spirit. Terrified, he broke into a run and was lost in the darkness.

What it teaches

The warnings of Ifá about the night are to be taken seriously, because what attracts is not always what it seems. Whoever lets himself be carried away by desire alone and forgets the advice risks an encounter with the dead.

When this path comes out

It is best not to walk in the street after twelve at night, because a spirit or an Egun may be attracted.

4When men traded the honey for the sugar🔒 The Notebook 5The pepper that gave strength to Obatalá🔒 The Notebook 6The blind diviner who regained his sight🔒 The Notebook 7The dog that learned to live with man🔒 The Notebook 8The palm tree that knew how to keep its father's secret🔒 The Notebook 9How Obatalá was healed🔒 The Notebook 10Idleness and hard work🔒 The Notebook 11Obatalá got what he was after🔒 The Notebook 12The rule of not making Ifá for the adodi is born (Logun Ede)🔒 The Notebook 13The bell and the blind man🔒 The Notebook 14The queen who lost her throne🔒 The Notebook 15The curious wife🔒 The Notebook 16The king who made a wager with the devil🔒 The Notebook 17The king's member and the cat🔒 The Notebook 18The opportunists🔒 The Notebook 19Better to have enough to give than to have to ask🔒 The Notebook 20Holding yourself in check🔒 The Notebook 21The royal priesthood of Inle🔒 The Notebook

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Frequently asked questions about Odi Tura

What does the Odù Odi Tura mean in Ifá?

Where diabetes was born, when Olofin's honey was traded for sugar: the luck comes by someone else's hand, and Obatalá's sorcerer defends you.

What number is Odi Tura among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Odi Tura is Odù number 73 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Odi family.

Which orishas speak in Odi Tura?

In the Odù Odi Tura these orishas speak: Obatalá, Osanyin, Shangó, Yemayá, Logun Ede, Eshú Bi, Eggun Ada Kuatiya.

What is a proverb of the Odù Odi Tura?

One of the proverbs of Odi Tura says: «When I know how to keep secrets, I will gain profits.».

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