Oggunda Fun

nº 151 of 256

An Odù of curses, where the head has to be prayed over at once: everything the earth gives goes back to it — the siempreviva saved Obatalá.

16 patakíes 7 eewó 9 ebbós and works 19 proverbs

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Oggunda Fun is Odù number 151 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Ogunda family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 16 patakíes (3 with the full text), its proverbs, 9 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 151 of 256
Composition: Ogunda over Ofun
In the Diloggún: 3-10 · Ogundá tonti Ofún
Orishas that speak: Oshún (Iyalorde) · Obatalá · Ogún · Egun · Eshu Ashikuelú · Oshosi · Shangó · Orunmila

What Ifá says in this sign

Oggunda Fun is the Odù of the curse — and of its immediate antidote: when the Awó sees it, he feeds the person's head at once, so the curse does not reach them. Its law is a full circle: everything the earth gives goes back to it — it was here that the sky refused to make ebbó.

Its plant is the siempreviva: every inshé-Osain in this odu carries ewe dundun prayed with Oggunda Fun — or it does not work. And your baptism is pending: you have not been baptized — wash your head with omiero and holy water from seven churches, and there is someone else in your house who should be baptized too. Pigs are not killed: their bodies are like ours.

«Everything the earth gives goes back to it — the curse of Oggunda Fun is cut by feeding the head.»The pulse of Oggunda Fun

This is an Ifá of transformation and of endless war: you change how you act according to the circumstances, and in your world everything falls apart and nothing takes hold — the ebbó is the anchor. Its rule for the mind is a doer's: what you think, you do — finish what you have in mind; but go slower and talk less, because that costs you.

The child of this sign is a marked treasure: a diviner, with a mark like a crucifix on the roof of the mouth — Orunmila's necklace and idefá, a reading, and ebbó from the parents so that child does not kill them and does not die on them; the mother will give birth to two more, Abikú. And the woman of this odu: cysts to the doctor, warriors received and her power of mind developed — she is a diviner, and neither her husband nor Orunmila want her working outside.

The safety locks: your sight (glaucoma — do the work now), explosions and burns (crucifix on, no black clothes — and in bed least of all), the powders thrown behind your back by whoever calls you proud (ebbó and the fight won), and your dreams: always remember them — by attending to them you will be saved from whatever comes. As you love, so you come to hate: learn to love well, and the curse of Oggunda Fun starves to death

The sign in one line

Get baptized, plant siempreviva in everything of yours and finish what you are planning — the child diviner of this odu brings the blessing no curse can touch.

The prayer of Oggunda Fun · Yoruba

Oggunda Fun wewe yeye mowe guegue yeye oniregun omo Osain kuelese kan kuelese meji obaye Orunmila wewe yeni Orunmila Onibaraniregun Orunmila isota, adie dosa ade lokan okan aye nifa Orun mowaye ore oreo Ashikuelu orebe Ashikuelu yeyegun Ashikuelu Orunmila orubo.

Súyere
Baba eruru, baba eruru layeo (3 veces), laye laye kowo demore.

Ifá says — what Oggunda Fun tells you

An Ifá of curses: you are cursed — your head has to be washed with omiero and holy water from seven different churches, because you have not been baptized, and there is someone else in your house who has to be baptized too. An Ifá of transformation: you change shape and change how you act according to the circumstances — your character is changeable. An Ifá of endless war: under this sign everything falls apart and nothing takes hold. An Ifá where what you think, you do: finish what you have in mind. The Ifá of the siempreviva: the ewe of this Odù is ewe dundun (prodigiosa or siempreviva) — every inshé-Osain prepared should carry it, prayed with Oggunda Fun, so it works. An Ifá where, as you love, so you come to hate: you have to know how to love if you are going to hate afterwards.
When the Awó sees this sign, he should feed his head at once: two white hens — and give a ram to his father if he has died; if he is alive, give it to the grandfather, praying for everyone's life.
Wash your head with aguardiente, and drink omiero.
The woman should be careful in her marriage: she is not in love with her husband, and mistakes can be made that cost lives. Here a woman may have as many as three husbands at once.
The husband, after quarreling with his wife, sweetens her: he is rough and they do not understand each other. This person is demanding in everything, and most of all in private.
In the woman: take care with cysts in the ovaries and with health in general; her husband does not want her to work, and neither does Orunmila nor Oshún. You are a diviner and you have mental power: receive the warriors and develop the spiritual work.
In ikofafun: tell the husband his life is in danger and that he should see to himself religiously.
There is someone who wants to dress just like you and take your shadow.
When it comes out toyale in a reading: whoever is being read wants to know something about their partner.
The child of this sign will be a diviner: they have a mark on the roof of their mouth, like a crucifix — have them read; put Orunmila's necklace and idefá on them, because they suffer with their blood and their head is very large. The parents should make ebbó so that child does not kill them and does not die on them; the mother will give birth to two more, who will be Abikú.
For the pregnant woman: ebbó with two hens — and at birth, give the child awofakan or ikofafun, because they are an omo of Ifá.
For the sick person: ebbó with a goat — the head is presented, danced with, and then buried, so the sick person does not die.
Look after your sight: this is an Ifá of blindness (glaucoma) — do the work needed.
Be careful of explosions: you or someone in your family can be burned. You should wear a crucifix, and you cannot wear black clothes — and in bed least of all.
Powders are thrown behind your back because they say you are very proud and showy: make ebbó to win the fight and not end up in trouble with the law.
Always remember your dreams: by attending to them, you will be saved from whatever situations come up.
Go slower in your affairs and do not talk so much: that costs you.
Your head has been aching for several days: have it prayed over so it is cool.
You have something in the works: finish it — what you think, you do.
Be careful about something you are going to do, because it does not suit you.
You feel like crying, and you are arguing with someone.
Your wife does not think the way you do: feed your head.
Be careful of a young woman they are going to send you and push in front of your eyes: she will bring you trouble with the law.
Hold to your principles so you have a good end.
Do not be jealous of your wife for her gift for divining: that will cost you.
You are very weak and you suffer with your stomach: eat properly and look after yourself, or you will do yourself worse harm.
People have always been two-faced with you.
Never be greedy for things: that will be your undoing.

Proverbs of Oggunda Fun · Òwe

“Everyone is as Obatalá made them, but becomes what they make of themselves.”
“The snake does not measure its shadow against the rainbow's.”
“In the town of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
“What the earth gives goes back to the earth.”
“Pride and boasting are a man's undoing.”
“The general goes to war, but the hunchback does not let him out of his sight.”
“You have to know how to love, if you are going to hate afterwards.”
“Whoever sets off at a run ends up walking.”
“For seven vices, seven virtues.”
“Virtues cancel out vices.”
“Greed ruins a man.”
“Whoever refuses bribes is a man of integrity.”
“Good news, a bright heart and glad eyes.”
“What does not happen in a hundred years happens in a day.”
“No impatient man makes the sun come up sooner.”
“Whoever does not carry out their plans does not enjoy what comes of them.”
“Whoever had a child eaten by a witch knows best what witchcraft can do.”
“A people with no roots is always replaced by another.”
“Whoever sees to their education gains understanding.”

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Iré and Osogbo

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What is born in Oggunda Fun · Ìbí

That everything the earth gives has to go back to it.
The sky would not make ebbó and the earth did: that is why the rain from the clouds always falls on the earth.
That pigs are not killed, and are used in ceremonies as a change of life or of head.
Olofin turned his prisoners into pigs: that is why the pig's body is the same as a human being's.
The power of the siempreviva.
Obatalá told it: «from today you will live forever» — and it beat Obatalá's enemy.
The ebbó with dog vomit.
From the road of the hunchback: to beat enemies and situations.
That Oshún came for the first time into her children's heads.
At the ceremony of Ashikuelú, Oshún's daughter who had never made Santo was taken on by Iyalorde.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

Do not kill pigs or eat their meat disrespectfully.
The pig has the same body as the human being: it is used only in delicate ceremonies, such as a change of head.
Do not eat shellfish.
Do not drink alcohol or take drugs.
They will change your character and can lead you to depravity.
Do not wear black clothes, and even less in bed.
You must wear a crucifix and walk in the light.
Do not mistreat dogs or the people who live with you.
The violent Awó broke the leg of the dog that was bringing him fortune — and he was left with no one to save him at the critical moment.
Do not raise your hand to a daughter of Oshún.
Olofin would curse you: that is how Oggunda Fun lost everything.
Do not be greedy and do not make a god of yourself.
Pride and boasting are a man's ruin in this sign.

Ebbós of Oggunda Fun · The sacrifices that open the road

HealthThe ebbó of the dog vomit🔒 The Notebook Keeping death awayThe ebbó of the sick person🔒 The Notebook SpiritualThe ebbó of Oduduwa and Obatalá🔒 The Notebook Beating enemiesThe hunchback's ebbó🔒 The Notebook HealthThe ebbó of the child diviner🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Oggunda Fun · The workings of the sign

SpiritualThe five glasses for the Egun who disturb🔒 The Notebook HealthThe jiquí cross for the eyes🔒 The Notebook Keeping death awayThe change of life from the bush🔒 The Notebook SpiritualEshu Ashikuelú and his staff🔒 The Notebook

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Patakíes of Oggunda Fun · The roads of the Odù

1When the sky did not make ebbó

Heaven and earth fought over the absolute rule of the world. Orunmila, who heard them, ordered both of them to make ebbó so as to share out the power. Heaven ignored it and did not do it, and on top of that did not want to give earth anything. That is why, ever since, whenever clouds gather over the earth it is the earth that gets the rain: she did comply. And Orunmila left it settled: "everything the earth gives, to the earth it has to return".

Heaven and earth clashed over keeping the whole rule of the world. Orunmila heard them fighting and told them that both should make ebbó, so that the power would be shared between the two.

That instruction did not matter to heaven: it went without making ebbó, since it was not willing to give earth anything either. That is where it comes from that, ever since, whenever clouds gather over the earth it is the earth that gets the water, because she did comply with what was ordered. It was then that Orunmila left it said: "Everything the earth gives, to the earth it has to return".

2The transformation

Olofin was keeping people locked up, and they made a huge racket from the cell. Orunmila went to ask him to let them go and Olofin assured him he had no one locked up. Since the noise kept reaching his ears, Olofin, so as not to be caught in a lie and to show he was telling the truth, told him the prisoners were pigs. Orunmila went into that room and saw that, indeed, what Olofin kept there were pigs: he had told the truth. That is where it comes from that the pig's body works the same as the human being's; and that is why this Odù speaks of transformation and why the pig is not killed: it is used in the ceremony as a change of head.

A group of people was locked up by Olofin, and from the cell they made a huge racket. Orunmila went to ask him to let them go, but Olofin assured him he had no one locked up. The noise went on reaching Orunmila's ears. When Olofin noticed that the racket had given him away again, so as not to be caught in a lie and to show he was telling the truth, he told Orunmila that the prisoners were pigs.

Orunmila went into that room and saw that, indeed, what Olofin kept there were pigs: he had not lied. That is where it comes from that the pig's body works the same as the human being's. Note: on this road, the Odù speaks of transformation; the pig is not killed: it is used in the ceremony as a change of head.

3The siempreviva

The siempreviva passed for the weakest plant on earth: it was enough to step on it for it to die. One day it asked Obatalá for power, and he told it: "from today you will live forever". Obatalá was being given no rest by an enemy neighbor, and the siempreviva, grateful, went to beg him to leave Obatalá in peace; the man got angry, beat it and tore it up in the mud: "now go so Obatalá can cure you". When he got to his house he found it covered by a huge siempreviva vine; in a rage, he hacked at it with a machete and left it lying in the sun. The next morning a thicket of siempreviva barely let him get through; furious, he pulled it up and threw it in the river so it would rot, and the next day the siempreviva had covered the whole river, so much so that everywhere you looked there was nothing else. Obatalá's enemy, seeing that, was tempted to walk over the covered river, and the mud swallowed him: the more he struggled to get out, the deeper he sank, until he drowned. That is how the siempreviva beat Obatalá's enemy, and that is why it is the ewe of this Odù.

Of all the plants on earth, the siempreviva passed for the weakest: it was enough to step on it for it to die. One day it came before Obatalá to ask him for power, and Obatalá told it: "From today you will live forever". It happened that an enemy neighbor was giving Obatalá no rest. The siempreviva wanted to return the favor and went to that man's house to beg him to leave Obatalá in peace; the neighbor got angry, beat it and tore it up in the mud. When the beating was over, he threw at it: "Now go so Obatalá can cure you".

He left there, but when he got to his house he found it covered by a huge siempreviva vine. He went in raging, took a machete, hacked at it and left it lying in the sun. The next morning what waited for him, to his surprise, was a thicket of siempreviva that barely let him get through. Furious, he pulled it up and threw it in the river, with the idea that it would rot; but the next day the siempreviva had covered the whole river, and so much so that everywhere you looked there was nothing else. Obatalá's enemy, seeing that, was tempted to walk over the covered river, and the mud swallowed him: the more he struggled to get out, the deeper he sank, until he drowned. That is how the siempreviva beat Obatalá's enemy. Note: the siempreviva is the ewe of this Odù.

4When they made Oshosi king🔒 The Notebook 5The hunchback🔒 The Notebook 6Oshún's daughter who had never made Santo🔒 The Notebook 7The proud son: Abeyi Lorun Ifá🔒 The Notebook 8The two brothers🔒 The Notebook 9The slave🔒 The Notebook 10The violence and the dog🔒 The Notebook 11When Oggunda Fun married Oshún, Olofin's daughter🔒 The Notebook 12The traveler at the miser's house🔒 The Notebook 13The beads of Oyó🔒 The Notebook 14The peacock and the guinea fowl🔒 The Notebook 15The dog and the blacksmith🔒 The Notebook 16The spider and the cat🔒 The Notebook

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Frequently asked questions about Oggunda Fun

What does the Odù Oggunda Fun mean in Ifá?

An Odù of curses, where the head has to be prayed over at once: everything the earth gives goes back to it — the siempreviva saved Obatalá.

What number is Oggunda Fun among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Oggunda Fun is Odù number 151 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Ogunda family.

Which orishas speak in Oggunda Fun?

In the Odù Oggunda Fun these orishas speak: Oshún (Iyalorde), Obatalá, Ogún, Egun, Eshu Ashikuelú, Oshosi, Shangó, Orunmila.

What is a proverb of the Odù Oggunda Fun?

One of the proverbs of Oggunda Fun says: «Everyone is as Obatalá made them, but becomes what they make of themselves.».

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