Ofún Funí

nº 247 of 256

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.

17 patakíes 9 eewó 7 ebbós and works 20 proverbs

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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 — 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 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 (Sickness)

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.
Between two friends, the one who thinks he is stronger abuses the weaker one and mistreats him; the weak one ends up winning, 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; his blood family and his religious family drink from it for 9 days, and whatever is left when the 9 days are up 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).
There is a girl living in your house who wants to know everything; that will bring her accidents, arayé and the loss of her virginity.
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 stays printed — that is what is called in the Osun and the Ashé —; Obamoro's face was wiped dry, and through the sweat and the blood his image was printed.
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

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

Do not go around with epó in front of Obatalá.
Kaferefún Obatalá: it is a rule of this Ifá.
Do not imitate anyone: daring is paid for dearly.
You cannot imitate; the one who tests his strength with what does not belong to him loses.
Do not repeat what you hear.
Not everything you hear can be told.
Do not uncover anything that is covered.
You can have trouble with the law and let loose what was held in.
Do not go out into the street for a period of seven days.
You can suffer an accident.
Do not let anyone handle your Santos.
It is a rule of this Ifá.
Do not drink just anywhere.
Someone wants to put ogú in your drink and you get seriously sick in your stomach.
Do not mock elders or people with physical disabilities.
Mocking them can bring you a sickness sent by the Orishas, as it happened to the children of Awó Ofunfún Ení with Orun Junjun.
Do not share your personal items, above all your towel.
They must be yours alone.

Ebbós of Ofún Funí · The sacrifices that open the road

SpiritualEbbó of the oil doll🔒 The Notebook Beating enemiesEbbó of the Sun and the Wind🔒 The Notebook HealthEbbó of Orun Junjun🔒 The Notebook SpiritualEbbó of the Osha cloths🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Ofún Funí · The workings of the sign

HealthThe agborán Orun Junjun🔒 The Notebook HealthIbako, the pot of Oluopopó🔒 The Notebook SpiritualThe agborán of Ramón wood (Odushe of the lerí)🔒 The Notebook

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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.

Beside a wide river lived a man that sadness would not let go: he had not managed to have children. One day, no longer knowing how to fix his misfortune, he went to see a very famous abéshu-mulei (sorcerer) and put it to him: "I want you to use your wisdom to advise me how I can have a daughter to take me out of this loneliness I am in." The man answered: "Go to your hut and bring me all the palm oil you can."

With that answer he went back home full of hope. Day after day he poured oil into a jar until he filled it. He took it to the witch, who with that oil shaped a girl and handed her over, but not before warning him: "This one, who will be your daughter, can never bathe in the river, or spend much time out in the Sun."

The man took the girl to his house. He felt happy with her and kept her inside the hut, hidden from other people's eyes. Every time he went out hunting he told her again not to go out and, above all, not to go near the riverbank. The girl grew up like that, in the middle of the joy of the man she took for her father.

But one time when he had to go to his farm, she ignored that advice and went down to the river. There she ran into a woman who, seeing her alone, took her to her own village; her crying was no help. When the man came back to the hut and did not find her, he went out desperate to look for her through rivers and forests, with no result. Out of sadness his life slowly went out.

Meanwhile, that girl had married in the village, to the son of the woman who stole her. She spent a long time shut in her new home: the mother-in-law kept her locked up, afraid she would run away. One day she took her along to the farm where she was going to work, so as not to lose sight of her. It was extremely hot. While the mother-in-law was gathering the food from the farm, the daughter-in-law, sitting at the foot of a tree, watched with surprise and horror how her feet were coming apart and how her arms and her body were losing their shape, while the ground soaked with oil. She could not scream. And she melted completely!

When the mother-in-law came back to the spot where she had left her, all she found was a big oil stain on the ground. Back in the village, she did not know what to answer the husband when he asked where his wife was; and he, full of rage, killed his own mother as punishment for the carelessness that had taken from him that woman he adored.

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

Note: that 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 spiritual entity; the day you abandon it, or the day the doll breaks, 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 and the akukó shared a house and, at least on the outside, they kept it in peace: one loud, the other quiet. Since he thought he was the stronger one, the ounko never stopped threatening the akukó, until the akukó, fed up with so much mistreatment, woke up singing as always, but set on answering back at the first provocation.

The ounko woke up and came back with his usual insults. The akukó, who was smaller, had always avoided the fight; that morning, though, he could not take any more: he went at him, threw a flurry at him and drove his spurs into his snout. The ounko started bleeding from the snout and ran out of the house in fright.

The akukó himself got scared at what he had just done. His comment was: "Look at that: with one single blow, that one 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.

The Sun and the Wind started arguing one day about which of the two was stronger.

While they argued, a man was passing along the road carrying a stick in the shape of a cross and a bag on him. To prove its strength, the Wind threw itself at the traveler and blew with everything. But the traveler, as soon as the blowing got harder, drove his staff into the ground and held on to it; as soon as it eased, he went on walking. The Wind finally understood that it would not beat him and stopped attacking him.

Then it was the Sun's turn, and it set to smothering him and choking him with heat so hard that the traveler drove his staff in and took off his bag. He drove the stick into the ground again, and ended up so tired that he had to take off all his clothes, until he sat down worn out and almost choking with heat. That was how the Sun proved it was stronger than the Wind.

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

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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 (Sickness).

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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