Ojuani Hermoso

nº 96 of 256

Where the lighting of candles for the Egun is born, and the Oriaté: an Ifá ruled more by the dead than by the Oshas, with a beautiful child of doubtful fatherhood.

12 patakíes 3 eewó 7 ebbós and works 13 proverbs

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Ojuani Hermoso is Odù number 96 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Ojuani family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 12 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 96 of 256
Composition: Ojuani over Iroso
In the Diloggún: 11-4 · Ojuani tonti Iroso
Orishas that speak: Egun · Shangó · Orunmila · Oyá · Osun · Ogún · Eshu / Elegba · Obatalá

What Ifá says in this sign

Ojuani Hermoso is the sign where the lighting of candles for the Oshas, for Orunmila and for the Egun was born — Awó Itana, the diviner of the light, against Awó Ikuku, the diviner of the dark — and where the Oriaté was born, the head of the mat. This is an Ifá ruled more by the dead than by the Saints: its strength is in the bóveda, not only on the shelf.

Your dreams are registered letters: attend them, because they will save you in the bad moments — and give thanks for the dream you had last night. You need to close the circuit with your ancestral energies, the female and the male, to put your difficulties in order: sit down and work the dead, because consulting the spirits was born here.

«Awó Itana won with the light — the lit candle is the signature of Ojuani Hermoso.»The pulse of Ojuani Hermoso

This sign teaches self-regard as a matter of the altar: if you do not care for yourself, you cannot care for anyone else — take pride in yourself, look after your person, see to yourself on every level. And its hygiene has a motto: what gets dirty is cleaned by washing — the fear of death you are carrying is washed off, not carried about.

Fine warnings: your good comes to you through a fair-skinned person who will look for you about a deal — go, it suits you; the bird that sings near you every night, or one that is sent into your house, catch it and cleanse yourself with it; and beware the gossip that wrecks homes, and the couple who quarrel over nothing: the promise of everlasting love you made before an image, Olordumare heard it — keep it.

With health made of glass — the brain, anemia, weakness — this odu calls for patience and ebbó: if you are poor today, your luck is walking toward you: you know what you are today, but not what you will be tomorrow. Your father wants to give you a piece of luck (a ram, if he has died), and Agba Egun protects your mind: light the candle, because in Ojuani Hermoso the light always beats the dark

The sign in one line

Care for yourself first, attend your dreams and light your candles — the luck of Ojuani Hermoso is already walking toward you, and your father is sending it ahead.

The prayer of Ojuani Hermoso · Yoruba

Ojuani Hermoso Ojuani Iroso Ogun ati Elegba Awo nifa lese Olofin Orunmila ati Shangó umbo mariyo odara nigdara omo Olofin ofo laiteshu araye lodafun Orunmila kaferefun Kuanardo.

Súyere
Agada mosareo agada mosareo, Orunmila obé agada mosareo.

Ifá says — what Ojuani Hermoso tells you

An Ifá about how much dreams matter: you need to close your contacts with your ancestral energies, the female and the male, to put your difficulties in order. An Ifá of natural weakness: when the Awó sees this Odù for someone who is ill, it is dangerous. It marks witchcraft and bindings, and the consulting of the spirits: you have to sit down and work the dead.
The Awó ruled by this Odù should receive Kakuanardo as soon as possible.
Parting from your elders: by this Odù the godchild parts from the godfather.
When it comes out at the Itá of an awofakán, Ifá should not be made for that person: their land is one of Osha and Egun, and an Egun may take hold of their head at any moment.
Your good comes through a fair-skinned person: they will come looking for you about a deal — go, it suits you.
Beware a bird that will be sent into your house, or that sings near you every night: try to catch it and cleanse yourself with it, to take the bad off you.
Be careful of people who may draw you into gossip and wreck your home.
In osobo this Odù marks things falling apart, and death.
Illnesses of this sign: trouble in the brain, anemia, weakness in the body and stomach upsets.
If you do not care for yourself, you cannot care for anyone else: take pride in yourself and look after your person, and see to yourself on every level of life.
How much dreams matter: attend them, because they will save you in the bad moments; give thanks for the dream you had last night.
You and your partner should keep the promise of everlasting love you made before an image: Olordumare heard it and approved it.
What gets dirty is cleaned by washing.
You are frightened because you believe you are going to die.
The woman with two husbands who quarrels with the first so she can go off with her lover: her husband has given her no cause, and if she goes, let her expect nothing good — she will be ill for a long time.
A dark woman with long nails, headstrong and full of herself, and a short man who walks stooped like an old one: be careful with those two, and with the tapa-tapa.
You are held back in the house where you live, and you are going to handle money.
The herbs of this Odù are all the climbing vines.

Proverbs of Ojuani Hermoso · Òwe

“Out of good dreams come great pieces of advice.”
“If you do not care for yourself, you cannot care for anyone else.”
“A Babalawo full of power is less powerful than an Orisha.”
“I give fire, above and below alike.”
“Do not think too little of me or too much of me — just think of me.”
“There is no greater revenge than indifference.”
“What gets dirty is cleaned by washing.”
“Pride cancels out reason.”
“Oxen out of the yoke produce nothing.”
“A poisonous tongue is the ruin of the body.”
“A good neighbor close by is worth more than a good brother far away.”
“Iron is sharpened with iron, and blunted with iron.”
“A man's humility is tested when he is praised.”

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Iré and Osogbo

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What is born in Ojuani Hermoso · Ìbí

Lighting the candles (itaná) for the Oshas, the Orishas, Orunmila and the Egun.
Awó Ikuku, diviner of the dark, and Awó Itana, diviner of the light, are constantly granting the faculty.
The Oriaté (Orí-Até): the head of the mat.
The master of ceremonies who reads the dilogún at the Itá; afterward it moved to Irete Kután, where Orunmila consecrated it.
That a ram must be given to Egun.
The obé, the knife, of Kakuanardo, which saved the world.
Kakua-iná-ado: «fire that breaks from behind», the reaffirming of Ifá. It stood for mankind's passage from tillers of the soil to eaters of meat.
That Orunmila took from Elegba the right to kill any animal.
That here Yemayá caught her husband Orunmila with Oshún, inside a pit covered with calabash plants.
A very beautiful child whose fatherhood is in doubt.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

You cannot go to any manigua (wild bushland).
Do not be proud.
The blood can rise to your head and you may commit a wrong.
The Awo does not do oparaldo for aleyos without asking Orunmila whether he may do it.
Like Awo Itana, who by not asking carried the bad shadows of others; if Orunmila says no, he must look for another Awo so as not to be in danger.

Ebbós of Ojuani Hermoso · The sacrifices that open the road

Keeping death awayThe ebbó of Awó Itana🔒 The Notebook HealthEbbó of the broken knife🔒 The Notebook MoneyThe 16 gourds of luck🔒 The Notebook SpiritualEbbó of the ashes from the hearth🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Ojuani Hermoso · The workings of the sign

SpiritualThe prayer of the candles🔒 The Notebook HealthThe fish of Oyá🔒 The Notebook Keeping death awayThe feeding of the Kakuanardo🔒 The Notebook

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Patakíes of Ojuani Hermoso · The roads of the Odù

1Awó Itana and his brother Awó Ikuku

Awó Itana did paraldos for anyone who needed one without asking Orunmila, and the bad shadows clung to him. His twin Awó Ikuku — an Egun of the land of Yewá, who came out by the light of Shangó's candles — taught him the food of Oyá and the ram for Egun, and he improved. But his good heart took him back to it, and his brother carried him off to rest: it was the only way to end his suffering.

Awó Itana lived in the land of Pele Pele and his work was to clean bad things and the shadow of the Egun buruku off anyone who needed it, doing paraldo for them. He never asked Orunmila whether it was his to do or not, and from that came the breakdowns and troubles he suffered without finding any explanation: the bad shadows stayed stuck to him. Even so, his good heart won out, and he took care of everyone, paid or not. His twin brother, Awó Ikuku, was Egun and lived in the shadows of the land of Yewá, where people covered themselves with mariwó and from where they came out into the light of the itanás that Shangó lit, to walk the world working for him.

Every time Awó Ikuku came down from Ara Onú at Shangó's call he saw his brother's ruin and started to cry. One day, in the middle of a paraldo, as he lit the candle Awó Itana noticed a shadow covered with mariwó coming toward him, singing: it was his twin, and he asked him: "Brother, give Yewá a fresh fish cooked with gofio and tomato, and put it in the drain of your house, so that the shadows of this land and I protect you; do it often, and give me a ram together with Shangó." All of that was done and his life changed: he got his health back and became great in Pele Pele, a land of calm and rest. But he soon forgot, and again his good heart put him to carrying the big problems of those people, until things went back to the way they were before. One day he took on a paraldo that no other Awó would accept — and again without asking Orunmila —, and Awó Ikuku took him away to rest: there was no other way to end his suffering. That is why the Awó of this sign always asks Orunmila before marking oparaldo.

2Osun and his enemies

Osun, hunted by his enemies, fell ill from so much hiding and went half out of his mind. In a clear moment he went to Orunmila, who marked him a praying of the head — and then he stopped troubling about it. His enemies set four stakes in a path, tied him with black and white thread and set about beating him. Shangó heard his cries, pulled him out from among them and took him to Orunmila, who did the praying: that is how he was saved.

Osun was hounded by his enemies, and from hiding so much he fell ill and half lost his mind. In a moment of clarity he went to Orunmila; the Odù that came out was this one, and he marked him a head rogation. Osun paid it no attention, not knowing that on the other side they already had a trap set for him.

Trusting, he went out one day for a walk. On a path they had driven in four stakes, and he stopped right in the middle of them: the enemies took the chance to tie him with black and white thread, and with him tied they fell on him with blows. The shouts reached Shangó, who was nearby; he came running, tore him out of those people's hands and took him to Orunmila, who did the rogation for him. That is how Osun was saved. This Odù is maferefún Orunmila and Shangó.

3The swindle of Ifá and Agba Egun

The renegade Awoses of Okan Nile were swindling people, and to win back their hold they sacrificed the vulture to Ifá — Olofin's messenger — getting her drunk at a banquet. Neither the hawk nor the Obá of Ifá would do their Itá; Olofin ruled: «Shame will follow you as long as you live». Then Agba Egun came into trance, spoke for them, did the Itá and freed them from the disgrace: ever since, he protects the Babalawo's mind with his influence.

In the land of Okan Nile many Awoses got together to measure their knowledge, though what they really did was swindle the neighbors with made-up things. People ended up feeling cheated and stopped believing in the powers of Ifá; the Awoses who kept their morals were left with nothing to live on. To get control back, the renegades came up with an idea: they set up a banquet, invited the vulture, Olofin's messenger, and once they had her drunk they sacrificed her to Ifá, then covered her with her own feathers.

Nobody dared to do the Itá. Three days later they asked the hawk to do it, and since he was short of money he agreed; but when he found out what they had fed Ifá, he blew up: "How barbaric! You have given him Olofin's messenger, who is my companion: this I will not do", and he left. Then they went to Awó Kananile, Obá of Ifá, from whom they had been apart for a long time; he sent them to his godchild Oshe Tura, and Oshe Tura to Olofin, because the decision about that Itá was his. Olofin ordered them ebbó, and seeing the Odù — Ojuani Amonsu — he told them: "You are renegades, and shame will follow you as long as you live, for taking Ifá to swindle your children." Right at that moment Agba Egun appeared, the eldest among those who serve the spirits; he fell into spiritual trance, cut Olofin off and interceded for them, promising to do the Itá himself, and so he pulled them out of the shame they were in. Since then the influence of Agba Egun protects the mind of the Babalawo — and by this Odù, the godchild separates from the godfather.

4The Kakuanardo saved the world🔒 The Notebook 5When Eshu was stripped of the right to kill🔒 The Notebook 6Olawunmi's dream and Bembi's mockery🔒 The Notebook 7The gourds of Ojuani Hermoso🔒 The Notebook 8So the lie was made🔒 The Notebook 9The candle, a pact of everlasting brotherhood🔒 The Notebook 10The gift of a flower🔒 The Notebook 11The child of heaven and the child of earth🔒 The Notebook 12The pact between Ikú and Orunmila over mankind🔒 The Notebook

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Frequently asked questions about Ojuani Hermoso

What does the Odù Ojuani Hermoso mean in Ifá?

Where the lighting of candles for the Egun is born, and the Oriaté: an Ifá ruled more by the dead than by the Oshas, with a beautiful child of doubtful fatherhood.

What number is Ojuani Hermoso among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Ojuani Hermoso is Odù number 96 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Ojuani family.

Which orishas speak in Ojuani Hermoso?

In the Odù Ojuani Hermoso these orishas speak: Egun, Shangó, Orunmila, Oyá, Osun, Ogún, Eshu / Elegba, Obatalá.

What is a proverb of the Odù Ojuani Hermoso?

One of the proverbs of Ojuani Hermoso says: «Out of good dreams come great pieces of advice.».

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