Osa Yeku

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá

Odù 153 of 256

Composition

Osa over Oyekun

In the Diloggún

9-2 · Osá tonti Eyioko

Orishas that speak

Orishaoko · Los Ibeyis · Shangó · Azojuano · Oshún · Yemayá · Osain · Eshu · Egun · Obatalá

What Ifá says in this sign

The prayer of Osa Yeku · Yoruba

Osa Yeku lerekun lerekun kaferefun Orishaoko yereku kuyereku kaferefun Efun.

Súyere
Osa Yeku baiyoka biyoka Ikú lona.

Ifá says — what Osa Yeku tells you

• The Ifá of the sacrifice that secures long life: if you do not sacrifice, death is certain — Onatooro and Onagboro sacrificed and their lives were made longer. The Ifá of charge over a piece of land: they are waiting to give you the authority — you will have to live in the country or outside the city. An Ifá of debts with the Saints: a promise made for a child is owed that has never been kept — possibly to Azojuano; it has to be paid to avoid trouble. An Ifá where your enemies live alongside you, and you see them in dreams. An Ifá of needing other people: here, in order to live, you need other people's help — like Tobías, who traded fish for vegetables.
• When this Odù is osobo: you have to eat properly, take vitamins and even injections, because you are very weak in your blood and your brain and you can go mad or become leprous.
• You suffer in your legs from an egun and in your brain from blood trouble: poor circulation, sleeplessness, anemia and lower back pain.
• You should avoid sleeping right after eating and getting worked up on a full stomach, because you suffer from stroke.
• The bowels have to be kept moving to avoid dryness and blockage: you suffer from constipation — take cundiamor and bathe with Azojuano's herbs.
• You are headstrong, disbelieving, full of yourself and false.
• Under this Odù the Saints are not properly attended to: everything you take on goes badly for not putting it to them first — that is why you are held back.
• You had necklaces and you threw them out, and that is why you are badly off in health and in money.
• It speaks of someone whose brothers and parents have all died: so they do not die, they have to make Santo (Yoko Osha), possibly Orishaoko.
• Three cards on the table: upheaval over love, upheaval with your partner or with someone close — it marks bad feeling between partners with threats on both sides; one of the two is running from the other.
• For the woman: look after your husband carefully, because he goes about with other women and you can lose him — make ebbó; if he leaves, when he wants to come back, the parents or the owner of the house will refuse to let him in.
• For the man: you have not looked after your children as well as you should, and when they grow up they will throw that neglect in your face.
• Where you live there is someone with sores on their feet who has helped you a great deal: never abandon them.
• The herbs of this Odù are purple basil and vinagrillo.
• You are trying to cure someone else, you do not sleep well at night and you have lower back pain.
• You owe the Souls: keep what you owe Shangó and the Ibeyis.
• You have many enemies and you see them in dreams: be careful of trouble.
• Where you live there is a ditch or a hole you cross: you have lost three strokes of luck, but a great one is coming your way.
• You are quarreling with your husband, who wants to hit you with a piece of iron, and you are running from him.
• You have three children and a relative who is a twin.
• Your business has been going badly for a long time and everything you take on you lose: you are a child of Orishaoko and you do not do what you should — that is why you are poor and held back.
• You have a piece of ivory — and if you do not, you will have to find one to make ebbó with, so you rise and are as you were before.
• You think a great deal: do not despair, because you will be as you were and you will be well.
• There is a dead one in your house causing trouble: see to that so the war ends.
• You have to feed the Earth.

Proverbs of Osa Yeku · Òwe

• “Three cards on the table.”

• “If you do not sacrifice, death is certain.”

• “My request was granted.”

• “The great wealth of the earth is waiting for me.”

• “The cat has four legs: health, money, love and children.”

• “What is not born does not grow.”

• “Work gives you an appetite, and hunger makes us go back to work.”

• “Malice is the fire that burns up the wicked.”

• “The gossip causes bad blood even between brothers.”

• “Iku never comes back with an empty belly.”

• “The same force that moves you stops you.”

• “The face speaks before the words do.”

• “The head sees the light before the eyes do.”

• “There is no wiser crown than gray hair.”

• “A single drop of vinegar ruins a whole jar of milk.”

Iré and Osogbo

What is born in Osa Yeku · Ìbí

• Giving a frizzled rooster to Osain.

  It was the only thing he had never eaten, and with it he reached the power he was missing.

• That Olordumare shared out his kingdom among the Saints.

  On finishing the creation of the Earth, Olofin decided to share out everything of his, giving his powers to each Osha and Orisha.

• Eshu's power over the Earth.

  He came on the next to last day and asked Olofin for the rule of the Earth, and Olofin granted it.

• That the ebbó of this Odù can never be without a piece of ivory.

  It is the secret of this Ifá for getting lost luck back.

• That tribute be paid to the Earth (Orishaoko).

  To lengthen life and enjoy a little health.

• Taking food to an egun on the hill.

What is forbidden · Eewó

Ebbós of Osa Yeku · The sacrifices that open the road

Works of Osa Yeku · The workings of the sign

Patakíes of Osa Yeku · The roads of the Odù

Frequently asked questions about Osa Yeku