Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño)

nº 73 of 256

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 Otura (Odi Atakofeño) is Odù number 73 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Odi family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 21 patakíes (3 with the full text), its proverbs, 12 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 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 Atakofeño is the sign where diabetes was born: men traded Olofin's honey for the sugar of the ireke — and ever since, on that same sugar, some keep their health and others fall ill. Its lesson is exact: the remedy is not in what everyone else uses, but in each person's own obedience.

Look after your blood as this odu orders: diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure and the heart — diet and doctor with no cheating, because here the remedy is in the hands of Osanyin and Orunmila: like the men who swore themselves in, you can live inside the illness and keep your health. And for the pregnant woman of this odu, ebbó and quickly: that child is coming to take its mother's place — settled in time, both of them live.

«They traded Olofin's honey for sugar — and diabetes was born: obedience is the only safe sweetener.»The pulse of Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño)

Its luck has a lovely oddity to it: it comes to you by someone else's hand, not by your own — when you gamble, do it in company; the lottery win that reaches you is for making Santo, and receive Olokun at a run. Your own hands, on the other hand, build things that come down: this odu marks that everything you have built can be destroyed — the ebbó props it up.

In the house everyone wants to give orders and nobody obeys — and you and your wife think differently and quarrel: that is why the luck never quite arrives — make peace first. Keep secrets to yourself (that is where the gain lies here), do not stand as godparent to anyone, do not take anyone into your house, and do not be out in the street after midnight.

The shadow of blindness asks for respect: here Orunmila was blind and his wife led him — be grateful to whoever guides you, even when they contradict you: that contradiction is a kind of care too. Give up your bad habits, see to whatever it is that torments you in front of the mirror, and hold on to the promise: Obatalá's sorcerer, Obiroso-Osanyin, was born here to defend you from every betrayal

The sign in one line

Look after your blood, make peace at home and never play alone — the luck of Odi Atakofeño comes by someone else's hand, and Obatalá's sorcerer defends you.

The prayer of Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) · 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 Otura (Odi Atakofeño) tells you

Kaferefún Orunmila, Obatalá and Osanyin. Maferefún Yemayá, Shangó and Olokun.
This is an Ifá of bad habits and of excess, in men and in women alike, and of the breaking of the respect owed within a family.
This is an Ifá of blindness: Orunmila was blind and his wife led him, but there were always contradictions between them.
It marks the collapse of things: everything you have built and every plan you have made can be destroyed.
In the house, everyone wants to give the orders, and the wife does not obey her husband.
You prefer spiritism to Santo and to Ifá, and this Odù marks loneliness at the end of life.
Diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, trouble with the heart and the chest, and trouble with the glands.
Death in childbirth: if the woman is expecting, it must be settled what is to be done for her, because that child is coming to take its mother's place.
Illness caught through sex, pain in the bones, impotence and trouble with the eyes.
The woman who looks at herself naked in the mirror, in love with her own body, and wants to be rid of something she is ashamed of.
A person of strange temper, with a sense of being less than others, and worries about their hair and their breasts.
Care must be taken about making Ifá for the adodi.

Proverbs of Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) · Òwe

“When I know how to keep secrets, I will make my gains.”
“Though every man uses sugar, some keep their health and others fall ill.”
“Men are blinded by women.”
“Both the father and the mother want to see their child well.”
“The hand you cannot cut off, kiss it.”
“The road to a bad life looks sweet, but it is a wound in the heart and a hole in the pocket.”
“A wise head hates arrogance and loves plainness.”
“Better an ally than a beaten enemy.”
“Green firewood makes no good fire.”
“Long life and old age depend on acting rightly.”
“The hoe is the only one that looks after the welfare of the earth.”
“There is no better cloak in this world than a mother's blessing.”
“A bribe buys the mind and sentences the soul.”
“Whoever fines the just and strikes the honest will not go unpunished.”
“Whoever has a calm spirit knows how to listen, and only the one who listens understands.”

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Iré and Osogbo

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What is born in Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) · Ìbí

Diabetes.
Men gave up bees' honey, Olofin's blessing, for the sugar of the ireke, and their blood fell ill; the remedy is in Osanyin 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 the pepper he killed his enemies, but he also frightened his own children, until they calmed him with álamo and ataré with honey.
Excess without restraint, and the breaking of the respect owed within a family.
This is an Odù of excesses, in which even the bounds of nature and the respect owed between parents, children and brothers are broken.
The sorcerer of Obatalá, Obiroso-Osanyin.
Osanyin left Obatalá one of his secrets so no one could betray him or close his road.
The collapse of things.
Everything you have built and every plan you have made can be undone; it all comes down.
That though every man uses sugar, some keep their health 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 walk in the street after twelve at night.
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.
It will be your misfortune, through quarrels with the compadres because of envy.
Do not kill ants; let them eat the food.
Do not take anyone into your house.
To avoid the ruin of the house.
The wife cannot be unfaithful to her husband, and you must leave vices and corruption.

Ebbós of Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) · 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 Beating enemiesThe ebbó of the vulture and the spikes🔒 The Notebook Beating 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 Otura (Odi Atakofeño) · The workings of the sign

Beating 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 Beating enemiesShangó's red flag🔒 The Notebook

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Patakíes of Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) · The roads of the Odù

1The hawk and the vulture

The hawk envied his comadre the vulture and mocked her for sleeping late; she said God always keeps her food set aside for her. He decided to eat her, but the vulture made ebbó with spikes; when the hawk dropped on the chicken of the ebbó, the spikes went into him and he fell dead.

The vulture and the hawk were compadres, but he envied her and went around criticizing her: he told her she was too comfortable and sleepy, and that she had to get up early to cook. She would answer him: "God always keeps my food set aside for me, that is why I don't bother looking for it". Those words made the hawk sore, and he decided to eat her; only the vulture sleeps with one eye open and the other closed, and she never gave him a chance.

Seeing her compadre's tricks, the vulture went to Orunmila, who saw this Odù for her and ordered ebbó with a rooster, a young rooster and spikes, and told her to leave it in the bush. She had barely left it there when the hawk showed up, and when he spotted the chicken he threw himself on it; the spikes of the ebbó stuck into him and he fell dead. That is how the vulture got rid of her enemy, and that is why she always finds her food.

2The excesses of the rooster and the goat

The goat and the rooster went to the land of the females and, out of greed to have them all, put an end to the peace and began fighting. Obatalá advised them and they paid no attention; Orunmila told him to leave them living as they were.

The goat went to the land of the females and lost his head, because he could not decide which one to take; soon after, the rooster arrived with the same greed, and from then on the peace was over and the fighting between the goat and the rooster began. Obatalá, hearing of it, went to that land, called them and advised them to live quietly, but neither of them paid him any attention.

Seeing that they went on just the same, Obatalá went to Orunmila, who saw this Odù for him and said: «Leave them living as they have been». So this Odù shows what becomes of whoever will not govern their own wanting and will not take advice.

3The man who lay with a spirit

Orunmila warned a man to be careful with women at night, but he paid no attention. He came across a beautiful pale woman with long hair, courted her and, without noticing, walked into the cemetery with her; at the moment of the act, a chill told him she was a spirit, and he ran.

A man went to be read by Orunmila, who saw this Odù for him, and Ifá told him to be careful with women at night; but the man thought nothing of it. One night he came across a pale woman with very long hair, remarkably beautiful, and he followed her, forgetting Ifá's advice.

He began courting her and she accepted him; they walked on and, without his noticing, they went into the cemetery. He held her and they came to the act itself, and at that moment a great chill went through his body and he realized she was a spirit. He took fright and ran, vanishing into the night. That is why in this Ifá you do not go about the street after midnight, because you pick up spirits.

4When men traded the honey for the sugar🔒 The Notebook 5Obatalá's pride and the power of the pepper🔒 The Notebook 6The blindness of Odi Atawo🔒 The Notebook 7When the rooster wanted to be a general and the goat a king🔒 The Notebook 8Odi strikes Otura: the secret of the palm🔒 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 Otura (Odi Atakofeño)

What does the Odù Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) 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 Otura (Odi Atakofeño) among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) is Odù number 73 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Odi family.

Which orishas speak in Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño)?

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

What is a proverb of the Odù Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño)?

One of the proverbs of Odi Otura (Odi Atakofeño) says: «When I know how to keep secrets, I will make my gains.».

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