1Oyá and the colored fish
Oyá watched over the beautiful fish Olofin brought to her bend in the river day and night, until her nerves broke down from not eating or sleeping; in a fit she cursed the fish and went off into the woods to get her sleep and her health back.
Oyá lived in the bend of a river, and one day, by the work of Olofin, many colored fish came to that place and, since the conditions there were good, they stayed.
When Oyá saw such beautiful fish, she started watching over them right away, to the point of letting no one pass through that area. To do it she had to watch by day and by night, because she was afraid the fishermen would take her fish.
So many days went by without eating and without sleeping that her health broke down badly, and even her nerves went bad. And Oyá, in a fit, cursed the fish that had come to that place. After that she went off into the woods to live without worries and get her sleep and her health back.
2Babalú Ayé throws the drinker Ofún Nágbe into the sea
Ofún Nágbe used to lie down drunk on Babalú Ayé's mat and cover it with vomit, making his sores worse; one night Babalú watched for him, rolled him up inside the mat and threw it into the sea: Ofún drowned.
Ofún Nágbe lived with Babalú Ayé in a hut and they got along more or less, but Ofún started drinking and would lie down drunk on Babalú Ayé's mat and cover it with vomit.
One day Babalú realized that every time he lay down on the mat his sores got worse, and he forbade Ofún to lie down on it again. Ofún stopped lying on the mat, but one night he came home drunk and lay down on it anyway. The next day Babalú found the mat covered in vomit, but did not see Ofún. He washed the mat and that night he set himself to watch for him.
At night Ofún came home drunk and lay down on the mat. Babalú, who was watching him, rolled the mat up with Ofún Nágbe inside and threw it into the sea. Ofún drowned.
3Nágbe kills his brother Ofún over his three wives
With Orula's three ebbós, Nágbe got three wives born from the flower, the grass and the rotten log, on the condition that no one know where they came from; he told his brother, who gave the secret away while drunk, and the women left: when Nágbe found out, he killed his brother.
There were two brothers: the older one was named Ofún and the younger one Nágbe. One day the younger one went to Orula's house and this Ifá came out. Orula told him: «You think you have no luck with women. Soon you are going to have three. But for that to happen you have to make three different ebbós and take them to three different places».
So Nágbe did: the first ebbó he took to the foot of a beautiful flower surrounded by rotten mud, and when he saw it he said: «If you were a woman, I would marry you». The second one he took to the foot of some grass near the river, and said the same thing to it; and the third one to the foot of a rotten log, with the same words.
When Nágbe got home, three women came a little while later and told him: «Here we are for whatever you want, but on the condition that no one knows where any of us came from». And they stayed there to live.
One day Nágbe told his brother where the three women came from. The brother came home drunk one day and, since the food was not ready yet, he got angry and told the three women where they came from. When they heard it, they left the house.
Nágbe was left alone, and seeing himself like that he asked his brother what had happened. The brother told him what he had done, and that led to a terrible fight between the two of them. And Nágbe killed his brother.
4The road cursed by what was inherited🔒 Babalawo
5The curse of Oyá (the deer)🔒 Babalawo
6The road of the unicorn (Yansá was the obiní)🔒 Babalawo
7Oddé marries the Gidígidí (buffalo) turned into a woman🔒 Babalawo
8The slave and the freed man🔒 Babalawo
9Adifafún Yansá, who married the drunkard🔒 Babalawo
10Ofún Nágbe stole Obatalá's black goat🔒 Babalawo
11Why Ifá is not made for an omó Ikú🔒 Babalawo
12The old man with three wives🔒 Babalawo
13Obatalá refused to offer the squash and got a hump🔒 Babalawo
14The rooster won the fight against the dog🔒 Babalawo
15The loner and the porcupine🔒 Babalawo
16The skilled hunter and the elephant man🔒 Babalawo
17The cocoa butter melts and destroys the gourd🔒 Babalawo
18The sickness carries him to the burial (the buzzard's ebbó)🔒 Babalawo
19The fluids are born: the semen is the most important🔒 Babalawo
20You have to touch your belly and blow outward🔒 Babalawo
21Ominigún and Olofin's melons🔒 Babalawo
22Orunmila buys Ominigún as a slave🔒 Babalawo
23The three obiní of Ofún Nágbe (Eyereyibó, Ayeregiodón and Peregún)🔒 Babalawo
24The three women of the log, the river and the mud🔒 Babalawo
25The night moth🔒 Babalawo
26Orunmiela, eye of the Sun (Our Savior)🔒 Babalawo
27The ikín beats the dilogún🔒 Babalawo
28Ogún cuts his own navel cord🔒 Babalawo
29The fish and the fisherman🔒 Babalawo
30Olokun goes off to the bottom of the sea🔒 Babalawo
31The disobedient daughter🔒 Babalawo
32The bird left out of the party🔒 Babalawo
33The pact between wolves and sheep🔒 Babalawo
34The dealer and his neighbor🔒 Babalawo
35The hair of Agbani🔒 Babalawo