Okana Sa

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá

Odù 130 of 256

Composition

Okana over Osa

In the Diloggún

1-9 · Okana tonti Osá

Orishas that speak

Egun · Obatalá · Elegba / Eshu · Shangó · Ogún · Azojuano y su familia · Oduduwa · Olodumare

What Ifá says in this sign

The prayer of Okana Sa · Yoruba

Okana Sa shonshon were were unlo otonigoro ile Obatalá Ifá osi lorun ashibilori to iban Eshu bobo rubo bobo arayé oto lorun bobo abó shekuekue aobilari lorubo.

Súyere
Eleri Ikú eleri, Ikú opolopo leri, Ikú auya auya ere.

Ifá says — what Okana Sa tells you

• The messenger Ifá: this Odù carries the sacrifices to heaven — the Divine Council appointed it to carry the ebbós offered, and by Olofin's order it is placed in every ebbó so it closes. The Ifá of Egun: keep your promises to the dead — the day you forget them, you will lose everything. The Ifá of Agbirari, Eshu's friend: no sacrifice comes through if his name is not said — «Kesu Agbirari… Okonronsa te te te» — before the iyerosun is laid. The Ifá of the Great Flood: one person's death is another's benefit — ebbó has to be made for the good and for the bad.
• There cannot be two people giving orders in the house: there is only one Shangó. And you cannot do favors for friends.
• Okana Sa should be spotless: keep your obligations from leaving you and your house dirty, and do not fight — everything kept clean will be foré by the blessing of Obatalá and Olofin.
• In time, Okana Sa becomes indispensable and prosperous.
• Be careful of bad eyes and of theft: cascarilla is blown around the house.
• You can have an accident at a party, above all to your eyes — there is something blocking your sight.
• For the woman: you are ill in your stomach and your monthly cycle is not right — treatment urgently; if you are pregnant, sorcery is being worked on you so you do not have the child.
• To have children: sacrifice with a hen, a rat, a fish, akará and ekó, like the guinea fowl.
• The vulture has to be respected, because it saves: offer it food with palm oil.
• Illnesses of this sign: the digestive system (vomiting), the eyes, leprosy and the evil eye.
• Do not stand at the window, because there will be a death.
• You want to do something good and someone does not want you to do it: when you do it, you will be all right.
• You are thinking of moving or you have already moved, and you want to make a journey: make ebbó so you are all right in that place.
• Make ebbó with white cloth, to get the bad eyes and the envious off you.
• Do not hide money from your brother or steal it from him, and do not tell lies: you win with the truth.
• You are ill, but you will be cured; you are due to do something people will see soon.
• They have been looking for you to cure someone ill or to do a piece of work.
• Death can come to you because of a woman, and your enemy lives near you.
• There was very nearly a death in your house from a fight.
• Never abuse women: love and value your partner.

Proverbs of Okana Sa · Òwe

• “One person's death is another's joy.”

• “You win with the truth.”

• “White cloth only grows old in tatters.”

• “Ikín is not in the Awó's house.”

• “The old have never heard that Olodumare is dead.”

• “When the forest flowers, the animals will flourish.”

• “If I avoid confrontation, I will have no trouble: when I act peacefully, I have no conflicts.”

• “Those of upright conduct are honored and the crooked are disgraced.”

• “Speaking with pride is foolishness; speaking with modesty is wisdom.”

• “Whoever measures out the wheat they give their oxen ruins their harvest.”

• “One person's laughter is another's weeping.”

• “You have to keep your trousers where they belong.”

• “Hoes on their own cannot work the farm.”

• “Whoever shows their nakedness has no modesty; the modest one covers up.”

• “A married man is a tamed donkey.”

• “You do not send a boy to gather honey.”

• “What is carved on a tablet is also carved in blood.”

• “Nobody becomes wise through insolence; through intelligence, yes.”

Iré and Osogbo

What is born in Okana Sa · Ìbí

• That this Odù is the messenger to heaven for sacrifices and ebbós.

  Okana Sa marked the bunch of flowers for the dead that closed Olofin's ebbó: without his signature, Olofin recognizes no ebbó.

• Naming Eshu Agbirari so the sacrifice comes through.

  Eshu proclaimed that no sacrifice would arrive without his hungry friend's name being said.

• Not letting your things get wet.

  The literature of the Odù that Olofin gave the two Babalawo brothers got wet and was washed away — that is why Babalawos do not let their things get wet.

• Keeping your promises to Egun.

• The cardón tree in Dahomey.

  The iyé of the cardón with the thunderstone, prayed on the board, defended Oñi Laye at the party where they meant to be rid of him.

• That Okana Sa does not know, but marks what is needed.

  «What can I say, if you have taught me nothing?» — and even so he closed the ebbó.

• Leprosy.

  From the powder Shakuana blew in the scornful rich man's palace — that is why sesame is forbidden.

• White cloth in tatters (as a badge), the emblem of God's immortality.

• That Eshu put the teeth and the venom in the snake.

  The two hundred needles of the ebbó lined up its jaws, and Eshu's saliva made them poisonous.

• The Great Flood, the catastrophe, illness and death.

  And from the bodies, the fertilizer for more life: one person's death is another's well-being.

What is forbidden · Eewó

Ebbós of Okana Sa · The sacrifices that open the road

Works of Okana Sa · The workings of the sign

Patakíes of Okana Sa · The roads of the Odù

Frequently asked questions about Okana Sa