Otura Ká

nº 207 of 256

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

23 patakíes 6 eewó 9 ebbós and works 17 proverbs

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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 — with the full eewó in plain sight; the detail of iré and osogbo and the full recipes open with The Notebook, in English.

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 your losses is already written: three chances were lost — one to pride; another, to not asking for favors; the last one, to ignoring what you were told. The fourth one is at stake now: do not be violent, do not give things so much importance, and listen. And a paradox of this letter: what you are looking for you have had for a long time, right next to you, 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

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

Do not whistle.
Your enemies are watching you and they can catch you by the whistle.
You cannot take what is not yours.
From the road of the thief: Elegbá and Oshosi find you out.
You cannot be greedy.
Do not be violent or arrogant, and do not throw things when you get upset.
Through arrogance, a man can lose his life, like Ogún with the machete.
Do not stand on street corners.
You can be struck.
Do not mistreat your wife.
Her Guardian Angel, as punishment, gives you impotence and great setback.

Ebbós of Otura Ká · The sacrifices that open the road

MoneyEbbó for luck🔒 The Notebook SpiritualEbbó before going to that place (to the country)🔒 The Notebook Beating enemiesEbbó of the crown (the road of the King)🔒 The Notebook HealthEbbó of the King's impotence🔒 The Notebook

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Works of Otura Ká · The workings of the sign

SpiritualFor the Awó: the switch of rasca barriga🔒 The Notebook MoneyFor Eshu: the three plates🔒 The Notebook HealthFor Ogún🔒 The Notebook SpiritualThe crown of sixteen parrot feathers🔒 The Notebook Beating enemiesSoup against the sorcerers (the charm of Otura Ka)🔒 The Notebook

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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 and that son was Ogún. He lacked nothing: he had a house, jewels, sticks, irons and everything you could name; but to be happy he needed one thing he could never get, the majá.

Every time he went into the bush, machete in hand, after the majá, the animal slipped away from him. Fed up, he went to see Orunmila. Orunmila made osode for him, saw this Odù and warned him: "You want to have something that is turning out impossible for you, and what you are looking for in the bush you have at home, because that is where you are going to find it. But first you have to make ebbó".

Ogún, who did not believe much in the Saints, left the ebbó undone and went back to the bush with his machete after the majá. The same thing as always happened: he would see it, but he could not catch it; no matter how well he handled the machete and how much brush he cut down, the majá got away. Desperate and worn out, he went back to Orunmila to make the ebbó.

Once the ebbó was done, Orunmila told him: "Do not go to the bush after the majá any more; sit quietly at home, because you will catch it there".

It turned out that Ogún had a stool. He was sitting on it when the majá fell on him from the roof of his own house; he grabbed it, and only then did he know happiness.

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.

At the beginning of the world, the union between man and woman was not like it is now, and there was almost no pleasure in it.

In the land of Mawami Inlé there was a married couple unhappy with that way, and the two decided to travel to the land where Orunmila lived to look for a remedy: that union took a very long time, it ran entirely on the power of the mind and dragged on so long that it left the couple worn out.

Once at Orunmila's house, he made osode for them, saw this Odù and spoke to them this way: "You come because of the problem 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".

Orunmila marked ebbó for them with the order to take it, once it was done, to Eshu, who was at the four roads. The couple did it and took it where they were told. A man was waiting for them there; he took the ebbó from their hands and asked for their attention: "Watch closely, because with this you will solve your problem". Then he untied a pair of dogs — male and female — that he had tied up, and the couple watched how those animals, moving naturally, carried out their union without getting tired.

That man was Eshu Afotifo, and he explained to them: "You have to do it like those animals, so you feel more pleasure, have more happiness and can come together more often".

The couple did what Eshu Afotifo said and then taught that art to the men and women of the land of Mawami Inlé; from there it spread to the other lands, and each one practiced it in their own way.

Note: here it was born that man and woman move when they come together, to enjoy it more and not wear out the brain like in the old way, in which only the brain worked and left them so worn out that the act was only possible once a year; that is why a woman's pregnancy lasts 9 months. It was also born here that men imitate 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.

Ogún, on this road, was always in a bad mood and tried to fix everything with the force of his pride. When something went wrong, he threw it and smashed it to pieces. He noticed himself that this was not right and went to Orunmila's house; they made osode for him, this Odù came up, Otura Ka, and the word was this: "Look, Ogún: you cannot be so proud and, when you get upset, you cannot throw things. You have to make ebbó, and remember that disobedience can cost you your life".

But Ogún ignored Orunmila's advice. One day he was coming home from work, a big rage came over him and he threw the machete he had in his hand: the blade hit the wall, bounced back and stuck in his belly. The word of Ifá came true and disobedience cost him his life.

4The thief🔒 The Notebook 5The King's impotence🔒 The Notebook 6When Otura Ka scared off the sorcerers🔒 The Notebook 7Otura Ka was divined for by Adeyibo🔒 The Notebook 8The prosperity of Otura Ka🔒 The Notebook 9When Orunmila, through patience, became King🔒 The Notebook 10The rasca barriga wood🔒 The Notebook 11The dwarf and the giant🔒 The Notebook 12The great mother🔒 The Notebook 13The crown of Otura Ka🔒 The Notebook 14The incest of Otura Ka🔒 The Notebook 15The crane and the wolf🔒 The Notebook 16Whoever does not work does not eat🔒 The Notebook 17Oshosi and the sorcerer🔒 The Notebook 18The bullfrog and the white heron🔒 The Notebook 19The stick and the mules🔒 The Notebook 20The duel of Otura Ka and Iku🔒 The Notebook 21The man who reads faces🔒 The Notebook 22Meanness turns the miser into a beggar🔒 The Notebook 23The elephant's guests🔒 The Notebook

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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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