Odù 247 of 256 · Ofun family

Ofún Funí

Where the iruke of Orunmila and the reason ebbó is made were born: here lives the Spiritual Double from Heaven — where the gift is born, the luck is not.

Ofún Funí is Odù number 247 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Ofun family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 17 patakíes (3 with the full text), its proverbs, 7 ebbós and works and the signs it shows in the consultation; the detail of iré and osogbo, the eewó and the full recipes open with the Babalawo plan — that locked part is still written in Spanish.

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá: Odù 247 of 256
Composition: Ofun over Ojuani
In the Diloggún: 10-11 · Ofún tonti Ojuani
Orishas that speak: Orun Junjun e Iyanzán · San Lázaro (Shakuana / Azojuano / Oluopopó) · Obatalá · Olofin · Yemayá · Eshu Aye Yelú · Arun (la Enfermedad)

What Ifá says in this sign

Ofún Funí — also called Ofún Juani — keeps the great secret of Shakuana: where the gift is born, the luck is not found — you are King in another land: Shakuana had to move away, and in the foreign land they crowned him. Here the iruke of Orunmila was born, the reason ebbó is made, the road of suffering and the pilgrimage, and the secret of the charcoal and the ash.

Here lives Enikejire Orun, the Spiritual Double that is in Heaven and joins with the one in the body — that is why the lerí is Orisha Lagbatoni, greater than the Orisha itself: your head is your greatest temple, and the Osha cloths on the lerí were born in this sign. Someone else's curse does not reach you: the enemy who curses us kills himself with his own curse.

«Where the gift is born, the luck is not found — Shakuana had to move away, and in a foreign land they crowned him King.»The pulse of Ofún Funí

Its deadlines are strictly on the calendar: seven days without going out into the street when the sign calls for it — it points to death by accident — and the illness here starts little by little, climbing like paralysis: the ebbó with the gumbo-limbo shoot stops it in time. Epilepsy is watched in you and in your children, and drink is bad for your body: not a drop.

The people you love call for open eyes: do not expect anything good from the boy you are raising — this is an Ifá of disappointment and of ungrateful people — be careful with women, since one of them is your worst enemy, and do not go looking for anything in corners; your son is your happiness, but watch over him closely: he can have accidents from disobeying, and he can even be taken. At parties there can be traps, fire and arayé: take precautions.

Its rules for living with others: do not fight with your elders — this is an Odù where curses come that way — the towel and your personal things are yours alone, the ashé lives behind the kitchen, and do not worry about being pushed around: the one who thinks he is stronger mistreats the weak one, and in the end the weak one wins, like the akukó against the ounko: go on your pilgrimage without fear — the crown of Ofún Funí is waiting in the land where he was not born.

The sign in one line

Keep the seven days, watch over your son, and do not fight with your elders — because the curse of the enemy of Ofún Funí kills only the one who threw it.

The prayer of Ofún Funí · Yoruba

Aro Abonó Kunkuó Adifafún Orunmila, Umbatí Orún Jun Jun Okú Awó Lleké Aworún Yanyá Onikú Omolayé Bi Orún Batidé Orunmila Ilayí Osá Osifún Orún Kotolowá Ekún Ipín, Odilé Orunmila Oberé Siwatolenó Untelé Adó Burukú Olomú Yadé Gbogbo Ilé Orunmila Osifún Arún Okavadá Silé Odí Ategún Umbatí Delé Ofún Ofún Oni Lodafún Orunmila.

Súyere
Yakaramó Oké, Yakaramó Oké, Eni Lo Baná Tokuerileo Osha Ofó Oddó.

Ifá says — what Ofún Funí tells you

It is an Ifá of disappointment: he should expect nothing good from the boy he is raising, or from his elders, because they are ungrateful; he should expect more bad than good from him. It is an Ifá of being deceived through an obiní: he must be careful with women, and must not go looking for anything in corners. Here lives the power of the Spiritual Double that is in Heaven, Enikejire Orun, which joins with the one in the body: that is why the lerí is Orisha Lagbatoni, greater than the Orisha itself. The enemy throws a curse at us and kills himself with that same curse. It is an Ifá of being used as an experiment and of people testing their strength against him. This person does not agree with the powers Olofin has given him, or with what his father or godfather grants him, like Abita. A man is King in another land: this person leaves his own land and comes back out of need; Shakuana had to move to another land, where they crowned him. Ofún Funí guards the road Oragún walks, and cleans the sign of Ofún in the land of Osha Dilogún.
It points to death by accident: do not go out into the street for seven days, because you can have an accident.
The ashé lives behind the kitchen.
The paralysis comes little by little up to the head; with Arun, the illness starts little by little: make ebbó, and the gumbo-limbo shoot must not be missing from it.
The children are epileptic: be careful with epilepsy, both you and your children.
The men find themselves alone and their happiness is in having a child, but they have to watch over him closely, because he can have sudden accidents from disobeying them; the child can be taken.
The children scold their parents for behavior that does not fit with what children feel for their parents.
When two men are friends, the one who thinks he is stronger pushes the weaker one around and mistreats him, and the weaker one wins in the end, like the akukó against the ounko.
In your house there is a girl who wants to know everything, and this will bring her accidents, arayé and the loss of her virginity.
You live with someone who will bring you trouble, arayé and even fights that turn into brawls, because they want to catch you off guard.
You can be thrown out of where you live or work; alcohol is bad for your body.
Your personal things, and above all your towel, must be yours alone.
When the Awó of this sign dies, a sarao of ekó is prepared, and for 9 days the family by blood and by religion drink from it; what is left after 9 days is sent to his grave.
The ewé of this Odù are gumbo-limbo and avocado.
Okoló speaks, the spirit of this Odù.
Enikejire Orun speaks, the Spiritual Double that is in Heaven and joins with the one in the body.
The kestrel speaks: a bird of prey with excellent sight that does not swallow what it catches, but tears it apart; male and female take turns hunting for food and guard the nest closely.
Babá Obamoro speaks: Obatalá very old and much suffering; his necklace is white with ivory, coral and glory beads; among his things he carries two machetes, a crown, a crucifix, an arrow, two spears, a monstrance, two ladders, a water jar, a lodestone, a small Osun of a rooster and two doves with a cup hanging from the crown of thorns. He has five messengers: Alabiní (people with albinism), Achipá (people with leprosy), Samí (people with a jutting jaw), Lagunas (people of short stature) and Shinikú (people with disabilities); his omó have their lerí prayed over with dried fruit, and his Ozain goes inside a cross (palm shoot, Castile squash, Eggún, ishú and gumbo-limbo).
The party with traps speaks: at the parties you go to there can be traps, fire and arayé; take precautions.
The sarao of ekó of the 9 days for the dead Awó speaks.

Proverbs of Ofún Funí · Òwe

“Enemies throw a curse and kill themselves with it.”
“You cannot copy someone else: boldness is paid for.”
“Not everything you hear can be repeated.”
“Where the gift is born, the luck is not found.”
“Each one will die the way Olofin decides.”
“He is saved from Ikú by making ebbó.”
“You are King in another land.”
“Abita wants to destroy humankind.”
“The stronger one pushes the weak one around and loses.”
“Whoever has much complains, whoever has nothing is tempted to steal, but the upright, whether they have or not, live in peace.”
“Skill gets more done than strength.”
“Fair payback is a teaching of the heart.”
“No one has more curses on him than the man who speaks badly of someone who is not there.”
“Whoever looks down his nose will be attacked with swords and teeth.”
“Kindness is the crown of good character.”
“Every father gives his best to his child.”
“Whoever loves a man loves his dog.”
“No one shares his takings with his horse, even though the horse carried him.”
“Little by little the old woman spins her wool.”
“The children of the leech never learned to give, only to ask.”

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Iré and Osogbo

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What is born in Ofún Funí · Ìbí

The iruke of Orunmila.
It is born in this Odù.
The ashé of the kestrel (Falco).
The true falcon: excellent sight, flies in circles, drops in a dive with a violent blow, lives in a pair in perfect harmony and defends its ground; it perches on the shoots of the palm for a better view.
The curse of the color black.
Black would turn only into the thing it wanted to stain.
Okiki Akuó Osun: envy.
It is born in this Odù: people envy this person greatly.
The road of suffering and the pilgrimage along it.
From the road of the Sun and the Wind: the traveler with his stick in the shape of a cross.
The great secret of Shakuana: where the gift is born, the luck is not found.
Shakuana had to die as Kelejewe Kutó to be born again, and to move to another land, where they crowned him.
The reason ebbó is made.
You are saved from Ikú by making ebbó, like the omó of Yemayá at the party.
The secret of the charcoal and the ash.
It is born in this Odù.
The secret of the Osha cloths on the lerí.
When the ashé is gathered, the astral image of the Santo is left printed there, and it is called in the Osun and the Ashé; they dried the face of Obamoro and his image was left printed by the sweat and the blood.
Obirikiti Osun Lerí, which marks each Orisha with its main color.
Each Orisha covered the lerí of his omó with his own alá: Elegbá, Oggún, Oyá, Shangó and Agayú red; Oshósi and Yemayá blue; Obatalá white; Oshún yellow; Yewá pink; Shakuana black.
The photograph and the work of the spirit of Osha in each person.
When the cloths were taken off, the shadow of each Orisha was left marked there: each person is one of a kind, even if they are children of the same Orisha as someone else, because the marks of their Odushe are their own.
Ibako, the pot of Oluopopó, and Odushó, the secret of the ashé.
They are born in this Odù.

What is forbidden · Eewó

9 eewó (taboos) in this Odù, locked.What the child of this sign must not eat, do or wear. Written in Spanish for now.Unlock →

Ebbós of Ofún Funí · The sacrifices that open the road

EspiritualEbbó of the oil doll🔒 Babalawo

Vencer enemigosEbbó of the Sun and the Wind🔒 Babalawo

SaludEbbó of Orun Junjun🔒 Babalawo

EspiritualEbbó of the Osha cloths🔒 Babalawo

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Works of Ofún Funí · The workings of the sign

SaludThe agborán Orun Junjun🔒 Babalawo

SaludIbako, the pot of Oluopopó🔒 Babalawo

EspiritualThe agborán of Ramón wood (Odushe of the lerí)🔒 Babalawo

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Patakíes of Ofún Funí · The roads of the Odù

1The oil doll

A man with no children asked the worker of magic for a daughter; he shaped her out of palm oil, warning that she must never bathe in the river or be out in the Sun. A woman took her and married her to her son; one day of terrible heat, on her mother-in-law's farm, the young woman melted away completely, and the husband, in his rage, killed his own mother.

Near a wide river there lived a man who was sad because he had not been able to have children. Once, not knowing how to find a cure for his misfortune, he went to an abéshu-mulei (a worker of magic) who was very famous, and said: «I want you to use your wisdom to tell me how I can have a daughter to take me out of this loneliness I am in». «Go to your hut and bring me all the palm oil you can».

With that answer he went home full of hope. For many days he poured oil into a vessel until it was full. He took his oil to the sorcerer, who used it to shape a girl, and she was handed over to that man. But first the sorcerer told him: «This girl, who will be your daughter, can never bathe in the river, and can never be out in the Sun for long».

That man took his daughter home. With the girl he thought himself happy, and he kept her in his hut, hidden from everyone's eyes. When he went out hunting, he told her not to leave the hut and above all not to go near the riverbank. The girl grew up in the middle of the joy of the man she believed was her father.

But once, when he had to go to his farm, the girl disobeyed his advice and went down to the river, where she met a woman who, seeing her alone, took her off to her village, and all her crying did her no good. When the man came back to the hut and did not find his daughter, he set off desperately to look for her through the rivers and the woods, without success. Little by little, that man was dying of sadness.

Meanwhile, that girl had married in the village, to the son of the woman who had taken her. She stayed shut up in her new home for a long time, held there by her mother-in-law, who was afraid she would run away. Once, the mother-in-law took her son's wife to the farm where she was going to work, so she could keep a closer eye on her. The heat was terrible. While the mother-in-law was gathering the food from the farm, the young woman, sitting at the foot of a tree, watched in surprise and horror as her feet came apart and her arms and her body lost their shape, while the ground soaked up the oil. She could not scream. And she melted away completely!

When the mother-in-law came back to the place where she had left her, she found only a great stain of oil on the ground. When they got back to the village, the husband's mother could not answer the questions he asked about where his wife was, until, filled with rage, he killed his own mother as punishment for the carelessness that had taken from him the woman he adored.

Ebbó: akukó, river water, palm fruit, epó, orí, malaguidí, earth from the foot of a tree, ekú, eyá, otí, oñí, awadó, ashó ará, ashó timbelara, opolopo owó. The little doll must be made of wax or of tallow.

Note: the boy you are raising is ungrateful; do not expect anything good from him. Get a wax doll and dedicate it to an Osha or to a spirit: the day you leave it aside or the doll is destroyed, the person is destroyed.

2How the ounko pushed the akukó around

The goat, loud and sure he was the stronger one, kept threatening and mistreating the quiet rooster; one day the rooster took no more, flew at him and drove his spurs into his snout: the goat, bleeding and frightened, left the house. The stronger one pushes the weak one around and loses.

The ounko lived with the akukó and, on the face of it, they got along, the first one loud and the second one quiet. The first one, considering himself stronger, was always threatening the akukó, and one day the akukó, tired of so much mistreatment, got up crowing as usual but ready to face him the moment he started.

When the ounko woke up, he started insulting him as usual, and the akukó, being smaller, kept out of any fight. But that day he took no more, threw himself at him and, flying at him, drove his spurs into his snout; and the ounko began to bleed from the snout and, frightened, left the house.

The akukó, frightened at what he had done, said to himself: «Look at that: with one single blow he left the house; and to think I was afraid of him».

3The argument between the Sun and the Wind

The Sun and the Wind argued over which of them was stronger, testing themselves on a traveler who carried a stick in the shape of a cross; the Wind blew and the man held on to his staff driven into the ground; the Sun beat down on him with heat until he took off all his clothes and sat down worn out: the Sun proved to be stronger.

Once the Sun and the Wind started arguing over which of the two was stronger.

It happened that, during the argument, a man was going along the road with a stick in the shape of a cross and a bag on his back. The Wind, to show he was stronger, threw himself at the traveler, blowing hard. And the traveler, every time the Wind blew, drove his staff into the ground and held on to it; the Wind would pass, and the traveler would go on his way, until the Wind saw he could not beat the traveler and gave up his attacks.

Then the Sun began. He started beating down hard on him and choking him with heat, so much so that the traveler drove his staff in and took off his bag. And he began driving the stick into the ground, but he ended up so tired that he had to take off all his clothes, and he sat down worn out and almost choked with the heat. And so the Sun proved he was stronger than the Wind.

Ebbó: the stick driven in where the Sun hits it, the bag, and the rest is asked of Orula; the ebbó goes inside the bag, along with the owó.

4The Devil and Sickness🔒 Babalawo

5The omó of Yemayá is saved from Ikú🔒 Babalawo

6Orun Junjun🔒 Babalawo

7The pot of Oluopopó🔒 Babalawo

8The secret of the Osha cloths on the lerí🔒 Babalawo

9They dried the face of Obatalá Obamoro🔒 Babalawo

10The Alabiní, a King brought down by a trick🔒 Babalawo

11The eagle and the vulture🔒 Babalawo

12Beating the enemy🔒 Babalawo

13Why Shapaná is afraid of water🔒 Babalawo

14Forgiving each other🔒 Babalawo

15The edge of the sword🔒 Babalawo

16A man is what he drinks🔒 Babalawo

17The queen and the witch🔒 Babalawo

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Frequently asked questions about Ofún Funí

What does the Odù Ofún Funí mean in Ifá?

Where the iruke of Orunmila and the reason ebbó is made were born: here lives the Spiritual Double from Heaven — where the gift is born, the luck is not.

What number is Ofún Funí among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Ofún Funí is Odù number 247 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Ofun family.

Which orishas speak in Ofún Funí?

In the Odù Ofún Funí these orishas speak: Orun Junjun e Iyanzán, San Lázaro (Shakuana / Azojuano / Oluopopó), Obatalá, Olofin, Yemayá, Eshu Aye Yelú, Arun (la Enfermedad).

What is a proverb of the Odù Ofún Funí?

One of the proverbs of Ofún Funí says: «Enemies throw a curse and kill themselves with it.».

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