Odù 207 of 256 · Otura family

Otura Ká

Scattering your enemies in order to prosper: here you are born with no crown and Santo has to be crowned — disobedience costs a life.

Otura Ká is Odù number 207 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Otura family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 23 patakíes (3 with the full text), its proverbs, 9 ebbós and works and the signs it shows in the consultation; the detail of iré and osogbo, the eewó and the full recipes open with the Babalawo plan — that locked part is still written in Spanish.

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá: Odù 207 of 256
Composition: Otura over Ika
Orishas that speak: Eshu · Elegbá · Obatalá · Ogún · Oshún · Orunmila · Oshosi · Azojuano (San Lázaro) · Olofin

What Ifá says in this sign

Otura Ká is the Ifá born with no crown: here you live with no crown — Santo has to be made, and Ifá afterward. Ogún paid for its lesson: here disobedience costs a life, and its way of governing is the opposite of force: you govern with Eshu's and Obatalá's help — with calm and patience the world can be moved.

The list of its losses is already written: three pieces of luck were lost — the first through pride, the second through not asking favors and the third through not listening to what you were told. The fourth is in play right now: do not be violent, do not give things so much importance, and listen. And there is a paradox in this odu: what you are looking for you have had for a long time, you have it close by and you do not see it.

«Three pieces of luck were lost: through pride, through not asking favors, and through not listening — the fourth is waiting on the obedience of Otura Ká.»The pulse of Otura Ká

Your hands are under a prohibition: do not take what is not yours, because you will be found out — and guard against the mirror of that too: you are being watched, they can catch you out with thefts, and money can go missing from your pocket. In love, you like nobody and you are looking for an ideal partner: you will need someone very calm to put up with your fussing — and the unmarried woman receives Ikofafún so she can marry, because she lives with no crown.

Your house has presences: sometimes it smells of herbs, sometimes of medicines — people say you are a sorcerer and know a great deal — and there is a dead one who left a machete and wants to do something for a member of the family, but cannot, for lack of light: give that spirit light, so he stops suffering and can help you. Whatever you find while bathing in the sea, set it behind the door: that is your luck.

The body wants attention in the stomach, the liver and the belly — diarrhea, colitis, hepatitis, operations that can be prevented — and no carrying blades; like Ogún, impotence is treated, not covered up by pretending to be ill. Your greatest remedy is a real one: the crown of sixteen parrot feathers, prayed over on the board, set on the tureen of your Guardian Angel: whoever was born with no crown earns it by obeying — not by snatching.

The sign in one line

Make Santo, keep calm and give light to the dead one with the machete — the crown of Otura Ká is won with patience, and what you are looking for is already close by.

The prayer of Otura Ká · Yoruba

OTURA KA ADIFAFUN OBANILE KOADE MEWE ONI WERE BOGBO MABINU UMBOWA ORUNMILA LOFOBANI ESHU MAFUN OTURA KA ADDIE LORUBO BOGBO TENUYEN OSIADDIE FIFESHU SHONSHON UMBO WANILE OBATALA ADDE NI ODARA LERI BODE ASHO ARAE LERI ODARA ORUNMILA AMONA INLE NI KEDE NILE LODDAFUN ORUNMILA KAFEREFUN ESHU ATI OBATALA.

Súyere
OTURA KA MOKA MORGUN, OTURA KA MOKA MORGUN AWO.

Ifá says — what Otura Ká tells you

An Ifá of government: you govern with Eshu's and Obatalá's help, with calm and patience. An Ifá with no crown: here you live with no crown; Santo has to be made and Ifá afterward. The Ifá of disobedience: here disobedience costs a life, as it cost Ogún. The Ifá of calm: you cannot be violent; with calm and patience the world can be moved.
Disobedience costs a life.
You cannot be violent: you have to keep calm and not give things so much importance.
It speaks of someone who likes nobody and goes about looking for an ideal partner; to put up with their fussing, someone very calm is needed, of an even temper.
You like taking what is not yours; you cannot do it, because you will be found out.
Three pieces of luck were lost: the first through pride, the second through not asking favors and the third through not listening to what you were told.
Your brain is worn out.
There are those who say you are a sorcerer and know a great deal.
It speaks of a dead one who left a machete and wants to do something for a member of the family, but cannot, for lack of light, and suffers; that spirit has to be helped so he suffers no more and can help you.
There is a great deal of noise around you: do not give it so much importance. In your house they sometimes smell herbs and sometimes medicines.
You are being watched and they can catch you out: guard against thefts and against money going missing from your pocket.
What you are looking for you have had for a long time, you have it close by and you do not see it.
The woman wants to bind her husband.
In this Ifá there are families with paralysis or someone who died paralyzed; you suffer from pain or stabbing in the stomach.
When you bathe in the sea, take whatever you find and set it behind the door, for your luck.
Here different switches were tried for the ceremony of the Iyoyé and they all made the Alawó ill, except the one of rasca barriga, which gave him health and strength.
Ogún lacked the strength for the marital act (ofikalé) and pretended to his wife that he was ill: the person has trouble with impotence.
Here a crown is made with sixteen parrot feathers, prayed over on the board and set on the tureen of the person's Guardian Angel.
You have to look after your stomach (diarrhea, colitis and blood from the bowel) and your liver (hepatitis).
You have to guard against surgery, above all in the belly, and against carrying blades.
The unmarried woman should receive Ikofafún so she can marry, since she lives with no crown.
You owe all the Santos, you are not much of a believer and you are very proud.
You are told to part with an animal you have that knows a great deal.
The herbs of this Odù: taboni, dormidera, cotton and alacrancillo.
Illnesses of this Odù: trouble in the brain, colitis, diarrhea, bleeding from the bowels, hepatitis and other liver ailments, extrapyramidal syndromes (paralysis), trouble in the lower belly in women, and pain or stabbing in the stomach.

Proverbs of Otura Ká · Òwe

“Disobedience costs a life.”
“Through pride, a man can lose his life.”
“With calm and patience, the world can be moved.”
“Whoever picks the wrong road loses himself on his own road.”
“Whoever offers himself too much is not wanted.”
“Whoever does not want to make noise should not carry palm thatch.”
“Whoever listens to the doctor does not lack for health.”
“Be able and you will be envied; be unable and you will be forgotten.”
“Whoever looks in the street for what he has at home loses his home and ends up in the street.”
“Whoever argues with Olorun is prey to the demons.”
“Everyone who listens to Ifá deserves the light.”
“Olorun collects promptly from the proud soul.”
“The intelligent man does not lie, so as not to be caught by his own tongue.”
“Behind a great man there is a great woman.”
“Nobody is more lost than the one who doubts.”
“Being content is the mother of hope.”
“Whoever tries to take on too much ends up with nothing certain.”

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Iré and Osogbo

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What is born in Otura Ká · Ìbí

That every Awó should keep a switch of rasca barriga beside his Eshu.
It was the only switch that at the Iyoyé gave the Alawó health and strength, and Olofin blessed it forever.
The pride of Ogún.
He wanted to settle everything with pride and, throwing his machete, it stuck in his belly: disobedience costs a life.
That men copied the animals in the positions for the marital act, and the art of moving in it.
From the road of Eshu Afotifo: before, only the mind worked, and the wear was such that it could be done only once a year.
That the Apeterbí should marry an Awó.
The woman who has this Odù in her Ikofafún will marry an Awó in order to be happy.
That what is looked for outside the house is inside it.
Like Ogún, who was looking for the snake in the bush and caught it sitting on his own stool.
That the man who beats his wife is made impotent by her Guardian Angel.
A punishment that speaks on the road of the King's impotence.

What is forbidden · Eewó

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Ebbós of Otura Ká · The sacrifices that open the road

DineroEbbó for luck🔒 Babalawo

EspiritualEbbó before going to that place (to the country)🔒 Babalawo

Vencer enemigosEbbó of the crown (the road of the King)🔒 Babalawo

SaludEbbó of the King's impotence🔒 Babalawo

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Works of Otura Ká · The workings of the sign

EspiritualFor the Awó: the switch of rasca barriga🔒 Babalawo

DineroFor Eshu: the three plates🔒 Babalawo

SaludFor Ogún🔒 Babalawo

EspiritualThe crown of sixteen parrot feathers🔒 Babalawo

Vencer enemigosSoup against the sorcerers (the charm of Otura Ka)🔒 Babalawo

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Patakíes of Otura Ká · The roads of the Odù

1When Ogún was missing something

Ogún had everything, but he was unhappy because he could not catch the snake in the bush; at last he made Orunmila's ebbó and, sitting on his stool, the snake fell on him from the roof of his own house.

Obatalá had a son, who was Ogún. He had everything: a house, ornaments, wood, iron and so on; but to be happy he was missing one thing he could not get, which was the snake.

When Ogún went to the bush with his machete to look for the snake, it got away from him, and, worn out, he decided to go and see Orunmila, who made osode for him and saw this Odù, telling him: «You want something that seems impossible to you, and what you are looking for in the bush you have at home, since that is where you are going to find it. But first you have to make ebbó.»

Since Ogún did not much believe in the Santos, he did not make the ebbó and went back to the bush with his machete, looking for the snake. And the same thing happened again: he saw it, but could not catch it, even though he handled the machete very well and cut through the scrub; the snake got away from him. Worn out and desperate, he went back to Orunmila's house to make the ebbó.

When Orunmila had finished making the ebbó for him, he said: «Do not go to the bush any more looking for the snake; sit quietly at home, because that is where you will catch it.»

It happened that Ogún had a stool, and while he was sitting on it, the snake fell from the roof of the house; he caught it, and that was when he was happy.

2Pleasure and movement in the marital act were born

In the beginnings of the world, the union of husband and wife depended only on the mind, wore out the brain and could be done only once a year; Eshu Afotifo, after Orunmila's ebbó, taught a couple the art of movement by watching the animals, and that art spread to all of humankind.

In the beginnings of the world, men and women came together in a different way than now, and they hardly felt any pleasure.

In the land of Mawami Inlé there lived a married couple who were not happy with that way, and they decided to go to the land where Orunmila lived to see how it could be put right, since their union took a very long time: it depended entirely on the power of the mind, and that act lasted so long that it wore the couple out.

When the couple reached Orunmila's house, he made osode for them, saw this Odù and told them: «You have come about the trouble with your union: given how long it lasts, you can only do it once a year, and when you finish, your minds are tired and your bodies too.»

Then Orunmila marked them ebbó and told them that, once they had made it, they should take it to Eshu, who was at the four roads. They made the ebbó and took it to the place they had been told. They found a man waiting for them, who took the ebbó from them and said: «Watch closely, because with this you will settle your trouble.» Then that man let loose a pair of dogs, male and female, that he had tied up, and they saw how the animals, with their natural movement, completed their union without tiring.

That man, who was called Eshu Afotifo, told them: «You have to do as those animals do, so you feel more pleasure, have more happiness and can come together more often.»

The couple followed Eshu Afotifo's instructions, and that couple taught all the men and women of the land of Mawami Inlé that art, which from that land spread to the others, where each human being did it in their own way.

Note: here it was born that men and women should move in their union, to have more joy and not to suffer the wear on the brain that the old way brought with it, where only the brain worked and they were left so worn out that the act could be done only once a year; that is why a woman's pregnancy lasts nine months. Here too it was born why men copied the different animals in it.

3Disobedience costs a life

Orunmila warned Ogún not to be proud and not to throw things when he got annoyed; Ogún paid no attention, threw his machete at the wall, it bounced back and stuck in his belly.

On this road, Ogún wanted to settle everything with pride and was always in a bad temper. Anything he did that went wrong, he threw down and tore apart. Realizing that he was not well, he decided to go and see Orunmila, who made osode for him and this Odù came up, Otura Ka, and he told him: «Look, Ogún: you cannot be so proud, and when you get annoyed you cannot throw things. You have to make ebbó, and remember that disobedience can cost you your life.»

Ogún paid no attention to what Orunmila had told him, and one day, coming home from work, he got very annoyed and threw the machete he had in his hand, and it hit the wall and bounced back, sticking in his belly. So Ifá's word came true: disobedience cost him his life.

4The thief🔒 Babalawo

5The King's impotence🔒 Babalawo

6When Otura Ka scared off the sorcerers🔒 Babalawo

7Otura Ka was divined for by Adeyibo🔒 Babalawo

8The prosperity of Otura Ka🔒 Babalawo

9When Orunmila, through patience, became King🔒 Babalawo

10The rasca barriga wood🔒 Babalawo

11The dwarf and the giant🔒 Babalawo

12The great mother🔒 Babalawo

13The crown of Otura Ka🔒 Babalawo

14The incest of Otura Ka🔒 Babalawo

15The crane and the wolf🔒 Babalawo

16Whoever does not work does not eat🔒 Babalawo

17Oshosi and the sorcerer🔒 Babalawo

18The bullfrog and the white heron🔒 Babalawo

19The stick and the mules🔒 Babalawo

20The duel of Otura Ka and Iku🔒 Babalawo

21The man who reads faces🔒 Babalawo

22Meanness turns the miser into a beggar🔒 Babalawo

23The elephant's guests🔒 Babalawo

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Frequently asked questions about Otura Ká

What does the Odù Otura Ká mean in Ifá?

Scattering your enemies in order to prosper: here you are born with no crown and Santo has to be crowned — disobedience costs a life.

What number is Otura Ká among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Otura Ká is Odù number 207 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Otura family.

Which orishas speak in Otura Ká?

In the Odù Otura Ká these orishas speak: Eshu · Elegbá, Obatalá, Ogún, Oshún, Orunmila, Oshosi, Azojuano (San Lázaro), Olofin.

What is a proverb of the Odù Otura Ká?

One of the proverbs of Otura Ká says: «Disobedience costs a life.».

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