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Okana Tura

Also called Okana Turale, Okana Otura

nº 133 of 256 · Edited by

Where the mouth sacrificed and eats hot food without burning: only Olokun made the ebbó, and everyone's work makes the owner of the waters rich.

16 patakíes 4 eewó 7 ebbós and works 16 proverbs

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Okana Tura is Odù number 133 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Okana family. It is also written as Okana Turale or Okana Otura. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 16 patakíes (3 in full in plain sight, with their teaching, ebbó and chants), its proverbs, 7 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 133 of 256
Composition
Okana over Otura
Orishas that speak
Olokun · Eshu · Ifá / Orunmila · Osanyin

What Ifá says in this sign

Okana Tura, also known as Okana Turale, is the sign that speaks to you about the fruit of your effort. Here it is born that the mouth can eat hot food, because Eshu cooled its stomach with what the snail gave. It is also born that the work of the whole body, from the hand to the garbage heap, ends up enriching Olokun, the only one who made the sacrifice, and the cry of the dove and the town of Otu are born here too. Its ruling is a warning: make your sacrifice so that what you work for stays in your home and does not end up in the hands of others.

You may be going through a time when you do not understand things well, but you must keep going. The dove refused to sacrifice, suddenly lost his wife and still mourns her: a sacrifice that has been marked is not put off, because in this sign a relationship can bring a sudden death. After the dry and hard season relief comes, and what is yours blooms again.

«Everyone works for Olokun, the only one who made a sacrifice: do not let your effort enrich someone else.»The pulse of Okana Tura

This sign forbids you to drink. Alcohol loosened the tongue of the awó of Okana Tura: he boasted and, in front of the elders, told secrets he kept deep inside, and they were about to curse him. Do not drink and do not talk too much at gatherings or among the elders; if you make a mistake, apologize in time. Do not be ungrateful either, for that is the reputation of this sign: whoever uses another's knowledge without permission or gratitude loses what he earned and his clients drift away.

In love, it suits the woman to marry a babalawo, because she will have trouble with a black man who courts her and whom she rejects. To the man, the sign says that a black woman wants to marry him and that he should accept her after receiving his Ifá. The wife may take a long time to become pregnant, but with the right help many children come. A betrayal you believe is hidden can end in threats and scandal in front of your own home.

At work, the place that seemed meant for someone else can come to you if you fulfill your duty to Ifá, and when money is short for everyone, the sacrifice made together brings it. In health, take care of your mouth, your stomach and your digestion, and be grateful for the health and the children that came to you through Ifá, because forgetting can make what you received fall ill. Call on your Egun in joy and in sorrow, and you will see that the happiness you seek far away is already close to you.

The sign in one line

Sacrifice what is yours, keep your secrets and do not drink, because in Okana Turale the mouth that paid is the only one that eats hot food.

The prayer of Okana Tura · Yoruba

Okonron tua tua tua, Babalawo erun, odifa fun erun ni ojo ti erun tonje aye ogbono ara.

Ifá says — what Okana Tura tells you

Proverbs of Okana Tura · Òwe

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Iré and Osogbo

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

Iré · what the sign brings

  • With the sacrifice done, they overcome the difficulty in understanding things and can move forward.

  • After the sacrifice, what used to burn them or was hard to bear stops harming them.

  • If they make the sacrifice, their efforts stay for their own benefit and not for that of others.

Osogbo · what the sign warns

  • They face a difficulty in understanding things.

  • Their efforts may end up benefiting others.

  • They run the risk of losing the fortune they obtain.

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What is born in Okana Tura · Ìbí

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

Ebbós of Okana Tura · The sacrifices that open the road

5 ebbós in this Odù, locked.Each full recipe: ingredients, preparation and where it goes.Unlock →

Works of Okana Tura · The workings of the sign

2 works in this Odù, locked.Each full recipe: ingredients, preparation and where it goes.Unlock →

Patakíes of Okana Tura · The roads of the Odù

1The Mouth and the Hot Food

An awó consulted the mouth, which wanted relief from the harm that very hot food did to it. He told it to offer ekó and four slugs, and the mouth did so. That night, while it slept, Eshu bathed the inside of its stomach with the ice cold liquid the slugs had released. From that moment, whatever enters the mouth hot is cooled at once thanks to that liquid.

What it teaches

What causes suffering can be eased with the right ebbó. Whoever attends in time to what makes them suffer stops suffering from the same thing.

Ebbó of the mouth

Four slugs and ekó.

When this path comes out

If the letter comes with iré, the person is going through a problem of understanding things; to move forward they must offer a hen and four slugs. If it comes with ayeo (osogbo), they must throw away the ebbó.

Invocation of the awó of the mouth

Okonron tua tua tua, Babalawo erun, odifa fun erun ni ojo ti erun tonje aye ogbono ara.

2Olokun Keeps What Others Lose

Okonron tua tua tua consulted for the anus, the stomach, the throat and the hand, and also for the dump and the sea, that is, Olokun. He warned them all that they could lose their fortune and assigned the same offering to them: a hen and four slugs. None wanted to make it, except Olokun, the owner of the sea.

From that day the route was set. The hand grabs the meat and brings it to the mouth; the mouth sends it down the throat to the stomach, which passes it to the anus. From the anus it reaches the dump by way of the toilet, and there the rains clean it and push it to Olokun, who swallows it whole. So all the effort of the body (the hand that gives food, the gullet that guides it, the anus that lets it out and the water that ends up seeping through the pores of the ground toward the river or the sea) ends up fattening Olokun, divinity of the waters and the only one who made the ebbó.

What it teaches

Those who do not make their ebbó end up working for the one who did. What one earns is protected with the offering that corresponds, so that it does not end up in other hands.

The ebbó of the story

Four slugs and a hen, so as not to lose fortune.

When this path comes out

It is advisable to make an offering so that one’s own effort does not end up favoring others.

3The Harmattan and the Rain

The Awó consulted for the Harmattan as she was coming down from heaven to earth. She is the north wind, cold and arid, that sweeps the tropical zones between December and March. In heaven, the Rain, who is male, wanted to marry her, since she was very beautiful, but she did not accept. He kept insisting and she kept rejecting him and escaping from him, until she decided to go to the earth. Down below she became a charming, much loved woman who managed to impose her will on plants and animals.

Her renown rose all the way to heaven and the Rain, angry, came down to look for her. By then the Harmattan was stripping the foliage from the plants and leaving the animals in a bad temper, so the arrival of the Rain was received with relief across the whole earth. The Rain went back to heaven with the Harmattan, and the plants bare of leaves bloomed again.

What it teaches

Power gained out of its proper place can end up hurting others. When each force returns to its own place, balance returns as well, and what withered blooms again.

When this path comes out

It suits a woman to marry a Babalawo, because of the problems that a certain black man who will pursue her will cause her, and whom she will reject. A man is sought by a black woman who wants to marry him; he may accept her, provided that he has first received his Ifá.

Divination verse of the Harmattan

Okonron tu tu tu tu, Awo oye doifa fun oye.

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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 Tura in Spanish →

Frequently asked questions about Okana Tura

What does the Odù Okana Tura mean in Ifá?

Where the mouth sacrificed and eats hot food without burning: only Olokun made the ebbó, and everyone's work makes the owner of the waters rich.

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

Okana Tura is Odù number 133 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Okana family.

Which orishas speak in Okana Tura?

In the Odù Okana Tura these orishas speak: Olokun, Eshu, Ifá / Orunmila, Osanyin.

What is a proverb of the Odù Okana Tura?

One of the proverbs of Okana Tura says: «The work of those who do not sacrifice makes the one who did sacrifice rich.».

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