Okana Roso

nº 126 of 256

A sincere apology is forgiven — the ignorant, not the wicked —: an Ifá of curses, and here Orunmila dressed as a monk, like Saint Francis.

20 patakíes 6 eewó 9 ebbós and works 18 proverbs

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Okana Roso is Odù number 126 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Okana family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 20 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 126 of 256
Composition: Okana over Iroso
In the Diloggún: 1-4 · Okana tonti Iroso
Orishas that speak: Shangó · Azojuano · Osanyin · Olokun y Yewá · Osun · Oyá · Olofin y Obatalá

What Ifá says in this sign

Okana Roso is the sign of repentance: whoever apologizes sincerely is always forgiven — people forgive the ignorant, never the devilish one who never apologizes. It is an Ifá of curses — its ebbó always goes to the hill — and of the rosary: here Orunmila dressed as a monk and had himself read with a church rosary.

Its battlefield is the head: it is the worst thing you have — keep it away from drink (one drunken humiliation would take you to the grave), from strong shocks (one of them can kill you), and from the enemies who are trying to destroy the good head you came into the world with: the soup of the mother goat with ipin leaves makes you prosperous from that year on.

«Whoever apologizes sincerely is forgiven; the devilish one who never apologizes, never — the law of Okana Roso.»The pulse of Okana Roso

Its war is an underhand one: here silent witchcraft was born — in the hidden war of Shangó and Azojuano. There is a prenda buried working against you and an enemy inside the house: find them and throw them out. That is why this odu speaks backwards — things are said the other way around so as not to throw your luck away — and not even dreams get told: telling them has already cost you plenty.

Your eyesight is urgent — you can go blind —, the woman should not let her breasts be sucked (she is delicate: breast cancer and the forming of the fetus were born here), and no taking strangers into the house. Oshún is disenchanted because she was given too little value: value her again with deeds.

The promises: a rise and a promotion from the government side, and the fame and fortune that come if you marry a priestess — a religious union is the engine of prosperity here. The one-eyed rooster for Osanyin, Shangó and Olokun lifts the curse, and the traveler's motto crowns this odu: when in Rome, do as the Romans — and ask forgiveness wherever you fail

The sign in one line

Ask forgiveness in time, speak backwards to your enemy and take care of your head — the rise of Okana Roso comes from the government, and the fortune from the altar.

The prayer of Okana Roso · Yoruba

Okana Roso asaye darico eyé akukó adifafun Bolele adié lebó moruro duro arase komi bore eñi indimu moyo koyoko idi amiti mireti reti ati nide adifafun Orunmila umbatinlo shawo mibo agutan lebó ba una moenitan.

Ifá says — what Okana Roso tells you

An Ifá of curses: the ebbó always goes to the hill, and the one-eyed rooster for Osanyin, Shangó and Olokun lifts the curse. The Ifá of the rosary: an ókpele is made from a church rosary, dipped in holy water, which lives beside Ifá. The Ifá of underhand, silent witchcraft: it came up here, in the hidden war of Shangó and Azojuano. An Ifá that gives the Awó license to court many women — and where things are said backwards so as not to throw your luck away.
A rise and a promotion from the government side.
You frequently have trouble with your partner or your children.
You have to take care of your eyesight — you can go blind — and of your head, which is the worst thing you have; avoid alcohol: one drunken humiliation will take you to the grave.
A shock can kill you; you can die suddenly from a venomous animal or a deadly germ.
Witchcraft sets off a great epidemic: you should throw the enemy out of your house, and look for a prenda buried and working against you.
It speaks of goings-on in your partner's family's house: of lovers on both sides.
Oshún is disenchanted because she was given too little value.
You should marry a priestess, so fame and fortune come to you.
Your enemies are trying to destroy the good head you came into the world with: the soup of the mother goat with ipin and iyan leaves makes you prosperous from that year on.
Watch where you are walking: your enemies want to bring you down over something you have found.
A disaster is coming to you: your head can lead you to harm yourself with fire.
You are envied for your personal gifts, and you should not trust dance partners or joking around — like the rooster and the owl, who humiliated each other.
Do not tell your dreams anymore, because telling them has already cost you plenty; and do not do favors.
You have been bound so someone can have you.
You are turning away from sex or from your partner for a while, and that gives the other person a complex.
For the woman: do not let your breasts be sucked — you are ill; your husband loves you a great deal but he chases around a lot.
You cannot give shelter in your house to anyone outside the immediate family.
It speaks of volcanic eruptions, and of property being seized and traps being set — over property or over the duties of Eguns.

Proverbs of Okana Roso · Òwe

“Whoever bites off too much chews little.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
“There are those who go blind in one eye to see another go blind in both.”
“When in Rome, do as the Romans.”
“Nobody can put the world right.”
“The secret must never be revealed.”
“Everything happens the way it has to happen.”
“Whoever talks a great deal errs a great deal.”
“A piece of advice takes the noose off your neck better than a hand does.”
“The man of peace ruins the enemy's warlike plans.”
“There are those who cut their own flesh to incriminate another.”
“He made a storm in a glass of water.”
“Nothing done under pressure can move the heart.”
“If a wicked man apologizes, accept his apology without trusting him too much.”
“It is by talking that people understand one another.”
“The wise man always forgives the ignorant.”
“Every soul has a guardian watching over it, and every worthy bone can be born again.”
“The sensible one earns esteem, the traitor contempt.”

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Iré and Osogbo

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What is born in Okana Roso · Ìbí

«When in Rome, do as the Romans.»
That the atiponlá and the escoba amarga live apart, by Olofin's ruling.
Where the atiponlá grows the escoba amarga does not thrive, and the other way around: they cannot be brought together in any work.
The forming of the fetus.
Parents shape their child's character: if the pregnancy goes by in peace, the fetus develops balanced; if they live in trouble and arguments, the child is born weak and nervous, and will be bad-tempered all their life.
Breast cancer in women.
The woman cannot allow her breasts to be bitten during sex.
Misery on the earth, by Olofin's curse.
Identifying Orunmila with Saint Francis of Assisi.
He dressed as a monk and had himself read with a rosary in order to cross the land of his enemies.
The warning of disaster in the red flowers of the flame tree.
Epidemic, and above all the death of children.
That people always forgive the ignorant and never the devilish.
Asking Orunmila or your Guardian Angel about everything you mean to do or receive.
Giving up one eye to see the other one blind.
It speaks of an enemy who would give up one of his eyes to see you badly off.
Making ebbó with gunpowder to prevent an explosion in the house.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

Deer meat is forbidden.
The woman who wanted to kill him was left half turned into a deer: she was the deer he was aiming at in the woods.
A woman must not let anyone bite or suck her breasts.
Breast cancer was born here; the boa made Abelaye sick by suckling at her breasts.
Do not go back to the place where you left something behind.
When you leave a place, do not turn back for any reason — Orunmila chose the rosary of the temple over going back for his ókpele.
Do not join atiponlá and escoba amarga in any work.
By sentence of Olofin they live completely apart.
Do not use weapons, neither blades nor firearms.
The weapon blew up in the hand; do not try to win back or draw your partner by force.
Do not drink alcohol.
A humiliation will take you to the grave, as it did the drunken owl.

Ebbós of Okana Roso · The sacrifices that open the road

LossPrayer against poverty🔒 The Notebook Keeping death awayOlokun's one-eyed rooster🔒 The Notebook HealthThe soup of the mother goat🔒 The Notebook SpiritualThe ebbó of the rosary🔒 The Notebook SpiritualThe ebbó of forgiveness🔒 The Notebook Beating enemiesThe ebbó of the humiliation🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Okana Roso · The workings of the sign

Beating enemiesThe egg for getting the enemy out🔒 The Notebook LoveThe atiponlá root🔒 The Notebook HealthOsun's white rooster🔒 The Notebook

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Patakíes of Okana Roso · The roads of the Odù

1The priestess of Shangó

Before coming down, Orunmila sacrificed a goat to Eshu, a red rooster and red cloth to Shangó, a rooster and black cloth to Ogún, and a female goat to his Angel: he was warned that his wife on earth had to be a priestess of Shangó — the key to his prosperity. For a long time he kept women away, until in Oyó a priestess of Shangó was taken with him: they married. She warned him to be read about the trouble coming; the Awó Akun Osun marked him the sacrifices, his wife gave birth, he built his house, she became a popular priestess who divined every nine days by possession — and he was given a chieftaincy. Marry a priestess: fame and fortune come through her.

Okonron Kosun Lere and Okonron Kosin were the Awoses who read for Orunmila when he was coming down from heaven. They marked offerings for him because of the fights waiting for him with the people of the world: for Eshu, a goat along with a piece of white cloth; for Shangó, a red rooster and red cloth; for Ogún, a rooster and black cloth; and for his Guardian Angel, a she-goat. He did it all before leaving. They also warned him of one thing: the woman he married down here would have to be a priestess of Shangó, because the key to his prosperity was in her. Once on earth he set to work as a priest of Ifá. For a long time he stirred no desire in women; he himself made sure to keep any sensual dealings far away, so much so that the town began to want to see him with a woman, since he was a whole man. A work trip took him to Oyó, and there he ran into a priestess of Shangó who was taken with his manhood; he wasted no time asking her to marry him and she gladly accepted. He spent three days in the village before going back, and he did not leave without being clear about where the woman came from.

No one in his town expected him to marry, so seeing him arrive with a wife left them stunned. Many came out to welcome her, and she watched their steps with distrust, because a good part of those people were enemies of Orunmila. As soon as she settled in, she asked him to get a reading: she could smell the size of the trouble coming his way. Orunmila then called the Awó Akun Osun, the one who paints himself with osun, and he marked the following for him: a she-goat for his Ifá, a goat for Eshu, a rooster for Shangó and one more rooster for Ogún. He did them without delay. Soon after, the wife got pregnant and gave birth to a boy, and he was able to build a house of his own. She grew into a much sought-after priestess of Shangó, who divined for people every nine days with the possession on her. The family prospered and he was given a chieftaincy. In Igbodu: you must marry a priestess, because fame and fortune come through her.

2The parrot and the deer woman

Before he married, Orunmila was a priest and a hunter, and had a parrot that told him everything that happened at the house. A widow who had tried in vain to attract him decided to kill him: she took out the palm oil container, added poison and put it back — the parrot saw it all, and when he came home, she warned him. Ifá told him to pour the oil on Eshu's altar with a goat. He went back to the forest with his weapon; the spiteful woman followed him in hiding: as he took aim at a deer, the weapon exploded and the fragments wounded her — before she reached home, part of her body had turned into a deer: it was the deer he was aiming at. She died of her wounds. That is why deer meat is forbidden, and a parrot is kept.

Before he married, Orunmila split his time between the priesthood of Ifá and hunting in the forest. At home he had a parrot that told him everything that happened while he was away. One day a woman came while he was out and took a container of palm oil from the kitchen, without noticing that the bird was watching her; she put poison in it, meaning to kill Orunmila, and put the container back in the house. The parrot missed no detail. When he came back from the bush, as he was about to use the oil, the bird told him not to touch it: a woman had taken it out of the house with suspicious intentions. Orunmila consulted Ifá, and the answer was to pour that oil on Eshu's altar along with a goat. Once the sacrifice was done, he went back to the forest with his gun.

The woman, full of resentment, followed him among the trees without him noticing her. Later, when Orunmila aimed at a deer, the gun blew up and the fragments hit the woman in her hiding place; she started screaming in pain. She managed to get out of there, but she did not make it home: on the way half her body turned into a deer and the other half stayed human; that was the deer he had aimed at in the forest. She had been a widow for a long time and had used up every resource to attract Orunmila without success — it was the season when no woman interested him — and when she saw she was failing she decided to take his life. The wounds from the explosion finished her. In Igbodu it is ordered: a she-goat for Ifá and the head at the same time; a rooster to mount Ogún on the Ifá; a goat for Eshu. Deer meat is forbidden and a parrot must be raised at home. In an ordinary reading: a rooster for Ogún, a goat for Eshu and four snails for Ifá.

3Osanyin, the divinity of medicine

Okonron Kosun Kosun, the Awó of Orunmila's house, read for Osanyin when he was coming into the world: a goat, a hen, a rat and a fish, to keep his secrets from becoming known on earth. He made the sacrifice — which explains why his secrets are not known today. Afterwards, «Ori ewe ni mu oshe je» read for Osanyin and made him popular, effective and famous. You are thinking of doing something in which something is missing: have it all clear before you go on — and the secret must never be revealed.

Okonron Kosun Kosun, Awó of Orunmila's house, read for Osanyin, the owner of medicine, at the moment he was heading for the world. The mark was to offer a goat, a hen, a rat and a fish, so that his secrets would not become known down here. Osanyin obeyed and offered; for that very reason his secrets are still unknown to this day.

When this Odù comes out, the person is told that they have in mind a matter in which they have already lost something: before going ahead with what they were planning, they need to have everything clear, and the secret is never revealed — that is what the sacrifice is for. Later "Ori ewe ni mu oshe je" read for Osanyin, and that made him popular, effective and famous on earth. In an ordinary reading: the person must receive their Ifá and mount their Osanyin.

4Ikosun: health and prosperity🔒 The Notebook 5The hen and her wandering chicks🔒 The Notebook 6Eshu's devilish son🔒 The Notebook 7The war of Shangó and Azojuano🔒 The Notebook 8The rosary🔒 The Notebook 9When Osun helped Shangó🔒 The Notebook 10The owl and the rooster🔒 The Notebook 11The farmer who stole from Osanyin🔒 The Notebook 12Abelaye, Osanyin and the boa🔒 The Notebook 13The Pharisees🔒 The Notebook 14Orungan's incest🔒 The Notebook 15The war of Ozain and the Omo Ogu🔒 The Notebook 16The modesty of nakedness🔒 The Notebook 17The enchanted snare🔒 The Notebook 18The art of making fire🔒 The Notebook 19The sigh and the prayer🔒 The Notebook 20The woman who disrespected her husband🔒 The Notebook

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Frequently asked questions about Okana Roso

What does the Odù Okana Roso mean in Ifá?

A sincere apology is forgiven — the ignorant, not the wicked —: an Ifá of curses, and here Orunmila dressed as a monk, like Saint Francis.

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

Okana Roso is Odù number 126 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Okana family.

Which orishas speak in Okana Roso?

In the Odù Okana Roso these orishas speak: Shangó, Azojuano, Osanyin, Olokun y Yewá, Osun, Oyá, Olofin y Obatalá.

What is a proverb of the Odù Okana Roso?

One of the proverbs of Okana Roso says: «Whoever bites off too much chews little.».

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