Okana Wori

Also called Okana Gio, Okana Iwori, Okonron Iwori

nº 124 of 256 · Edited by Ricco Ledesma

Olofin and Orunmila rule the world, one from the earth and the other from the sky. Eshu is their banker, and keeping silent about problems blocks the road.

18 patakíes 5 eewó 8 ebbós and works 17 proverbs

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Okana Wori is Odù number 124 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Okana family. It is also written as Okana Gio or Okana Iwori or Okonron Iwori. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 18 patakíes (3 in full in plain sight, with their teaching, ebbó and chants), its proverbs, 8 ebbós and works and the signs it shows in the consultation — with the full eewó in plain sight; the rest of the iré and osogbo and the full recipes open with The Notebook, in English.

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá: Odù 124 of 256
Composition: Okana over Iwori
Orishas that speak: Shangó · Eshu · Obatalá (Agemón) · Oshosi · Oshún · The Ibeyis · Orunmila

What Ifá says in this sign

Okana Wori, also known as Okana Gio and Okana Iwori, is a sign of blessing for the Earth and of Shangó's protection. Here the world began to take shape, and Olodumare decreed that Olofin would govern from Heaven and Orunmila from the Earth. Here Obatalá left gunpowder behind, which in this sign both saves and ruins, the rain brought its good and received scorn, and the dying fire revived with dry palm leaves. Its ruling speaks plainly to you: the fear and pride of keeping your problems silent are closing your road; tell them to someone who can help you.

You carry gunpowder on you or walk near it: step away. You are fleeing from someone who seeks you, and a child may discover something of yours and send you to prison, but Shangó is keeping you from jail and from war: feed him, offer him a ram and then his drum, so that your luck finishes arriving. You have hidden enemies, you are tied up by witchcraft and you live among tests, traps and deceptions. Death is close. This sign also warns of thoughts of taking your own life: if they come, do not keep them inside; talk to someone you trust, see a doctor or a professional, do not stay alone, and attend to Shangó and to your dead.

«Orunmila on earth and Olofin in heaven, and the fear of Okana Gio without governing anything: speak plainly.»The pulse of Okana Wori

You were born to be a priest of Ifá, with the strength to relieve those who suffer. Eshu is your banker and adds six coins to every payment, Shangó will collect what is owed to you, and an inheritance will come to you. A white person, most likely blond, can help you prosper, and a blond husband awaits the woman, who will make her life rich. But people see you as forgetful and unreliable, and you must not boast in front of those who can help you. If you neglect the Saints, nothing you wish for comes true, even though you want results right away. You will be generous and still receive mockery and ingratitude.

In love, you may lose your place for courting a friend's wife. Here siblings and friends drift apart, and parents go too far with their children. The woman is lost through trade, money is stolen from her and she wants to tie down a man. Take care of the traveling child, who does not come to stay.

In health, take care of your blood, which can bring you diabetes. You feel heat in your stomach and seek ice cold drinks. You can be poisoned through what you eat: avoid bitter things and stale food, and do not drink or eat from someone else's vessel. The woman suffers discharge, internal ailments and a belly misshapen by childbirth, which Oshún restores to its form.

The sign in one line

Tell your problems, put down the gunpowder, and give your ram to Shangó, for Okana Gio's banker is Eshu, and the inheritance is on its way.

The prayer of Okana Wori · Yoruba

Okana Iwori agaro fi adifafun Osanyin obanishawo Shangó maferefun Shangó. Abó, akukó, etú elebó.

Ifá says — what Okana Wori tells you

Be careful with a child: he may be the one who uncovers something for which you would go to prison. A minor discovers it.
The woman is absorbed in trade, money has been stolen from her and she wants to bind a man to her.
The person must take care regarding diabetes, because he or she may develop it; there are problems with the blood.
The woman suffers from discharge and from disorders inside her body; as her womb becomes deformed, she lives with a complex.
It is the Odù of a traveling child (Abikú).
Here parents overstep in their treatment of their children, and the problems between them arise through the fault of the elder, while the younger answers back.
There are difficulties in returning from a journey: be careful when traveling and do not run into trouble on your way back.
A white person, more exactly a blond one, can help you prosper: make a sacrifice. If it is a woman, she will marry a blond man who will make her life rich and prosperous.
The person is thrown out or deported from some place for courting a friend's wife.
Bunches of flowers are placed high up for the dead.
That you carry gunpowder with you or have been near it: put it aside.
That if you have money set aside for a Mass for a dead person or for a charitable work in the name of the Saints, you must respect it, because you could be arrested.
About how you are running from a person who is looking for you: make ebbó, because otherwise a boy will find you out.
That two people in your house had the same dream, and that death is close to it.
About how everyone asks you for money and also for food, and as soon as you do not give it, they turn into enemies.
That you are bound by witchcraft; tend to the dead.
About how you will have money through an inheritance.
That you are somewhat embittered, are an unbeliever or believe in your own way, and want to see quickly the results of the ritual works done for you.
That you like to drink very cold liquids, because you always feel heat in your stomach.
That someone plans to go and steal at a certain place: that person needs to make an ebbó, in order not to be caught inside, nor arrested by the law, nor killed.

Proverbs of Okana Wori · Òwe

“If your eye stings, it is because you have been eating peppers.”
“Play dead to see what kind of funeral you get.”
“Olofin says: Orunmila on earth and I in heaven.”
“I will not be a victim of the mass death on earth.”
“Generosity is repaid with ingratitude.”
“When the fire is about to go out, it revives with dry palm leaves.”
“It makes no sense to dress one saint and undress another.”
“He is pulled harder than the bell on the bus.”
“Whoever looks down receives no blessings.”
“With God everything, without him nothing.”
“Thorns do not satisfy hunger, nor do cold words comfort.”
“Better to be looked down on and fed than revered and hungry.”
“The camel survives the desert, but the mountains will be worn away by the rain.”
“The sacred signs warn or reward, and it all depends on the diviner.”
“An unfeeling person cannot know compassion.”
“He is more lost than a cockroach at a hens' dance.”
“Where pleasure begins, let the friendship end.”

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Iré and Osogbo

Three iré and three osogbo of this sign, open to everyone.

Iré · what the sign brings

Olofin in Heaven and Orunmila on Earth govern the world together by the command of Olodumare.
Shangó protects them from wars and from arrests, and keeps them away from prison.
Six more coins are added to the payment set for their work, because Eshu acts as banker.

Osogbo · what the sign warns

Out of fear they cannot speak of their problems, and that closes their path.
They keep their problems to themselves out of pride and nobody sympathizes with them.
A child may discover something of theirs and have them taken to prison.

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What is born in Okana Wori · Ìbí

That the white Orishas never use gunpowder.
After the gunpowder barrel saved Agemón, the Fun Fun gave it up forever.
The forming of the earth.
Here the creation of the earth began.
That six pesos are added to the fee.
Eshu became Orunmila's banker.
That the egg has the chick inside it, alive or dead.
The belly deformed by giving birth, and the prayer over it with the gourd.
The fight between Shangó and Ogún, and the hot pepper.
The barrel of gunpowder that both saves and destroys.
The dance of Atemoletá of Okana Gio, and the name Okana Ngunkeba given to this Odù.
The rain, generous and at the same time scorned.
That the fire was fading.
And she comes back to life with dry palm leaves.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

Do not eat bitter things: no bitter leaves and no bitter kolá.
That is where poison comes in.
Do not boast in front of someone who can help you.
Do not tell the Awó your private matters halfway, and do not keep them from him either.
The chameleon told his problems to no one: he knocked his head against the palm tree and against the wall, and no one felt sorry for him.
Do not seduce women close to you, nor the wife of a friend.
Okana Gio was deported from the town for that.
Do not think of taking your own life, and least of all with fire. If you feel the urge to do so, talk to someone you trust, seek help and do not stay alone.
Be careful with fire.

Ebbós of Okana Wori · The sacrifices that open the road

Keeping death awayThe bag in the forest🔒 The Notebook Overcoming enemiesThe ebbó of the barrel🔒 The Notebook SpiritualThe ebbó of the black rooster and the pepper🔒 The Notebook LossThe ebbó of the return🔒 The Notebook Overcoming enemiesThe ebbó of the outing🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Okana Wori · The workings of the sign

SpiritualThe wild cane rod🔒 The Notebook HealthThe prayer over the belly🔒 The Notebook MoneyThe water flowers with gunpowder🔒 The Notebook

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Patakíes of Okana Wori · The roads of the Odù

1The Mass Death and the Bag of the Forest

This Odu came to the world when there was still free communication between the two worlds. Those who went down came back with stories of quarrels, and nobody began the journey without thinking carefully. When his turn came, he went to consult about how to live happily down there. He looked for an Awó whose name said he would not fall prey to the collective death in the world. That Awó was honest with him: the world was living through a war and even an offering could not soften its effects. Even so, he told him to offer a guinea hen to his head and a goat to Eshu Obadara, who rules the forests. So it was done.

Once on earth he met several elders, the first settlers, and soon learned how hard the world was: in his community at least ten people died before their time every day. Seeing that almost nothing was within his reach, he went up to heaven again to consult more deeply. He went straight to his diviner, who was ill and confirmed that the world was as terrible as people said. The diviner charged him to gather a piece of each food, put them into a bag that was to hang from a tree in the forest once he was back on earth. He carried out that offering just as it was given to him, and from then on he managed to free the people from death.

What it teaches

When misfortune is greater than what one can change, consulting again and doing what is marked offers a way out. What is offered with generosity can benefit an entire community.

First ebbó, before descending

For his head, a guinea hen; for Eshu Obadara, a goat.

Ebbó against the mass death

A piece of each food, all put into a bag that is hung from a tree in the forest on earth.

When this path comes out

The owner of the odu is meant to practice the priesthood of Ifá, since he brings the gift of saving those who suffer in the world. Besides the Eshu proper to his Ifá, he must install one of Obadara to carry his messages.

Name of the Awó consulted

MERA BA O NI IRI ODELE (Yo no seré víctima de la muerte masiva en la Tierra.)

2The Rain That Was Scorned

When the rain was about to come into the world, an awó consulted her fate. He wanted to know what purpose she was going down for, and she explained that she brought well being for those who lived on earth. The awó prescribed an ebbó of a black hen, black cloth and dark soap, so that gratitude would not be missing after so much giving. To the rain it seemed absurd to pay in advance: she thought people would know how to appreciate what they received, and she did not do it. When she was about to leave, someone went and told Eshu that she was going down without doing what had been ordered.

Once in the world, the rain shared her benefits. She made the crops grow well, eased the stifling air, and saved plants and animals from drought. But Eshu turned people against her. If the rain caught someone working, or forced them to stop, they cursed her for interrupting. When it rained often, they treated her like an annoying visitor; when she was late, they threw in her face that she did not cool the air; and when she arrived, they accused her of spoiling the day. Nobody said thank you even once, and then the rain remembered the awó’s advice. That is why, when she comes loaded with dark clouds, she sings a song of lament in which she admits that she would have made the offering had she known. The patter of the drops is that lament, because even today everyone speaks ill of her.

What it teaches

Whoever gives a great deal to others does not always receive gratitude; sometimes only criticism and mockery. The ebbó works as protection so that generosity is not paid back with contempt. Ignoring the awó’s warning brings regret later.

Ebbó of the rain

A black hen, black cloth and dark soap, to prevent her kindness from being repaid with ingratitude.

When this path comes out

If a person is generous, they are likely to be criticized and laughed at. They should make an offering and so keep ingratitude from reaching them.

The rain's lament when she comes down heavy with clouds

Bo ba je pe mo mo, ma ba rubo — okan ri-ri-ri

Invocation of the awó of the rain

OKONRON RI-RI-RI, BABALAWO OJO, ODIFA FUN OJO.

3The Fire That Was Dying Out

At a time when the life of the fire was dying out, the awó consulted its destiny. He told it to offer a rooster, a hen and dried palm leaves, and the fire obeyed. The offering took effect and it regained its vigor. Since then, whenever it is about to go out, a few dry palm leaves are enough for it to burn again.

What it teaches

What grows weak can be reborn when the ebbó is carried out. Help may come from where it is least expected, and with it strength returns and prosperity follows.

Ebbó of the fire

Dry palm leaves, a rooster and a hen.

When this path comes out

It is wise to make an offering. A fair skinned person could help the one consulted to get ahead. In the case of a woman, she will marry a blond man, and with him her life will be prosperous and rich.

Invocation of the awó of the fire

OKONRON WIRI WIRI WIRI BABALAWO UNO, ODIFA FUN UNI NI OJO TI AYE UNO RELE.

Phrase of the fire when it regained its vigor

IWARAMA AGBE AYE UNO DIDE.

4The leper of Ijaye🔒 The Notebook 5The forgetful Awó and the poisoned Oloja🔒 The Notebook 6The silent chameleon🔒 The Notebook 7Moyebo's return🔒 The Notebook 8Oshún and the calabash that gave her back her womb🔒 The Notebook 9The ice cold water for Olofin🔒 The Notebook 10When Olofin went too far with Shangó🔒 The Notebook 11Shangó, Ogún, and the hot pepper🔒 The Notebook 12Agemón's gunpowder barrel🔒 The Notebook 13Betrayal of the Oba🔒 The Notebook 14The great taboo of Ifá🔒 The Notebook 15The palm frond that saved the prince🔒 The Notebook 16The pact of loyalty🔒 The Notebook 17The gift of charm🔒 The Notebook 18The title of Olu Ode🔒 The Notebook

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The full treatise is in English. With The Notebook, the whole sign opens on this page in English: the full text of every patakí, the recipes for the ebbós and works, and the iré and osogbo readings. · This page is also available in Spanish: See Okana Wori in Spanish →

Frequently asked questions about Okana Wori

What does the Odù Okana Wori mean in Ifá?

Olofin and Orunmila rule the world, one from the earth and the other from the sky. Eshu is their banker, and keeping silent about problems blocks the road.

What number is Okana Wori among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Okana Wori is Odù number 124 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Okana family.

Which orishas speak in Okana Wori?

In the Odù Okana Wori these orishas speak: Shangó, Eshu, Obatalá (Agemón), Oshosi, Oshún, The Ibeyis, Orunmila.

What is a proverb of the Odù Okana Wori?

One of the proverbs of Okana Wori says: «If your eye stings, it is because you have been eating peppers.».

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