Oshé Dí

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá

Odù 230 of 256

Composition

Oshe over Odi

In the Diloggún

5-7 · Oshé tonti Odí

Orishas that speak

Oshún · Yemayá · Shangó · Eshu Lalafan · Ozain · Ogún

What Ifá says in this sign

The prayer of Oshé Dí · Yoruba

Oshé Modi Mode Adifafún Obara Baniregun Ifá Nire Ifá Kaferefún Iyalordé, Orunmila, Shangó, Eshú Atí Obiní.

Súyere
Awá Aye Ebbó, Awá Aye Ebbó, Otolokun Ebbó Aye.

Ifá says — what Oshé Dí tells you

• An Ifá of making ebbó to be born and to die. An Ifá of not taking a beaten enemy back: if we do not tie the traitor down, once he has rested he will proclaim his victory over us. An Ifá of a burden: Shangó sets a load of firewood on you that you cannot bear or take off. An Ifá of a lamp in the street and darkness at home. The Ifá of Orunmila's three irés: when it rains gold, when it rains cloth and silk, and when it rains machetes, rifles and arrows.
• You have to look after your legs: it speaks of impotence in the man and discharge in the woman.
• The man spends his life on his feet, and that is bad: it affects his legs, wears him out and weakens his potency.
• It speaks of a pregnant woman: the man doubts whether the child is his, and will only be convinced when it is born.
• The woman steals from you; the woman pawns your things and, if her husband does not give her the money, she loses them. Her husband is going to grow tired of giving her money, because she has wasted it all: look after that man, because you can lose him.
• It speaks of everything being short: to settle it, you will have to make ebbó.
• A piece of luck is coming to you after three hardships; get your tools ready, because a great deal of work is coming to you.
• Those who are criticizing you are going to have to come to your feet.
• When this Odù comes up for someone, their child needs a reading more than they do.
• His or her temper can lead them to violent acts.
• You are sure of yourself and look down on others, and at the end of your mockery you lose to the one you think beneath you.
• A person full of prejudice, with no fixed word, hot-tempered, ungrateful and short of everything.
• You believe in only one Santo or deity and doubt Ifá: you go to ruin for not believing in Orunmila.
• For being greedy, you have to spend your money on the wars that come up.
• The Toad and the Pig speak: the Toad, mocking and a dandy, died in the two waters he did not know, the cold and the hot.
• Yemayá's pig speaks, which is scalded with hot water asking leave of Oshún and of Yemayá.
• The chick speaks who makes war on the one who gave it life: the trouble with the children.
• The ewé of this Odù is palo vencedor.
• Impotence speaks: the treatise describes it through neurasthenic neurosis, diabetes and low hormone conditions; in the woman, trouble with the period and discharges.

Proverbs of Oshé Dí · Òwe

• “Whoever owes and pays is in the clear.”

• “See to your own first and to other people's afterward.”

• “Olordumare loves all things, but not excess.”

• “We should not take a beaten enemy back.”

• “When you catch the thief, he does not leave without a beating.”

• “Whoever takes pity on his enemy has already lost the war.”

• “Revenge is sweet, but it leaves bitterness.”

• “The only one who knows us inside is the doctor.”

• “A man's word is his best guarantee.”

• “Vices infect the blood.”

• “Clear water goes muddy if we stir the bottom.”

• “There is no worse thief than the one who steals from his parents.”

• “They are like two male crabs in the same hole.”

• “Whoever trusts the future prospers faster than the greedy man.”

• “The drip stays on the stone long enough to make a hole.”

Iré and Osogbo

What is born in Oshé Dí · Ìbí

• The great discontent of the woman: there is no man who suits her.

  The woman does not like the husband she has, since she hopes to have another.

• That ebbó has to be made to be born and to die.

  It is the central prediction of this Odù.

• Eshu Lalafan, who came down to Earth with this Odù.

  He is the one who cleans away everything bad; the ebbó of this Odù goes wrapped in sacking.

• The ball that is thrown at the enemy in his house.

  It is made with onion powder, cigar butts, gunpowder and three guinea peppers, all ground together.

• That the chick, on being born, dips its beak to the earth, and once grown makes war on the one who gave it life.

  You will have great trouble with your children.

• That when adimú is set for Oshún it is also set for Yemayá.

  From the road of the pig breeder: you have to reckon with both waters.

• That you do not run when you see others running.

  From the rain of rifles: those who ran to gather up the money were left with no weapons.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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

• You are forbidden to get wet with rain water.

  Keep rain water from falling on you: it comes from Orunmila's rain of weapons.

• The thief is not forgiven, and you cannot be kind before excesses.

  Olordumare loves all things, but not excesses; if the traitor is not tied up, he will proclaim his victory.

• Do not accept the return of a defeated enemy.

  It is the main sentence of this Odu.

• Do not run when you see others running.

  Those who ran after money were left without weapons when the war came.

• Do not call money so much.

  Shangó says that death can come with it.

• Do not keep food from one day to the next.

  It is a habit that this Ifá points out and condemns.

• Do not think about revenge.

  The one who did something to you will pay for it sooner or later, without you taking part.

• Be careful with fire, with liquids at high temperature and with power lines.

  You can get burned, like the pigs of the breeder who did not believe.

Ebbós of Oshé Dí · The sacrifices that open the road

Works of Oshé Dí · The workings of the sign

Patakíes of Oshé Dí · The roads of the Odù

Frequently asked questions about Oshé Dí