The Life of Iwori Odi
The continuous biography of this odù's own spiritual evolution — celestial works, then earthly works — told as one unfolding life. Click any title to read it.
Protagonists Index — Orishas, Irunmoles, Divine Personages, Animals & Plants
Orishas & Irunmoles
- Orunmila — 1. The Advice of the Children; 2. The Sparrow, the Bull, and the Cow. He is the diviner in both patakines that turn on divination.
- Yemayá — Description of the Oddun
- Orishaoko — Description of the Oddun
- Shangó — Description of the Oddun
Divine Personages
None carries a narrative role. The non-Orisha actors of the three patakines are unnamed ordinary people and animals.
Animals
- Sparrow — 2. The Sparrow, the Bull, and the Cow
- Bull — 2. The Sparrow, the Bull, and the Cow
- Cow — 2. The Sparrow, the Bull, and the Cow
- Little bird — 3. The Intelligence of the Little Bird
- Ox — 3. The Intelligence of the Little Bird
The source names the bird and the bovine of Story 2 with different words from those of Story 3; the index keeps the four figures separate and does not merge them.
Plants
None carries a narrative role. The plants named at Ewe of the Sign belong to a formal list, not to a story.
The Patakín Corpus — 1 to 3
Presented in strict numerical order as in the source Tratado. Click any title to read it.
01The Advice of the Children
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Patakín:
Once upon a time there was a woman who had lived a silent life of men;[^17] she had two children who were on the eve of marriage, but this woman fell in love with a man and had two more children with that man.
This man was very much a womanizer and took a mistress near the place where he lived, making the mother of his children suffer, who little by little grew bored of him, coming to not want any contact with him.
The woman took a lover, but since the husband was a very violent man, she feared for her life; she even came to think that he was casting witchcraft on her. She knew that, despite what she was doing, he was not going to separate from her. But it turns out that she also had bad ideas against the man and against the mistress; but her children advised her, for which she went to see Orunmila, who did ebbó for her, everything being arranged for the woman.
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