Iwori Ogbe (Iwori Ogbe · Iwori Ogbe)

REZO: IWORI BOGBE IFAYE OMO LORIFA BEYAMO AFEFE ARON IRE ABEYABI AWO LORIFA IWORI BOGBE ASHEBI ASHE IWORI BOGBE ALEYO ASHE IWORI BOGBE LORIFA ABEYARI LADE IFA OMA MAYARIN IFA KAFEREFUN OBINI MAYORA IFA ASHE KEIBE ASHE IFA LORIFA IFA ASHEGUN OTA MALALA ABERIN LORUN IWORI BOGBE ORUN MI LA ASHEBO ASHETO IFA LORIFA.

EBBO: osiadie fun fun, abeboadie fun fun, eyele okán, ewefa inle ile loya maribo, sea sand, juju alakaso, otá meta (three stones), a bunch of plantains, erán malú (beef), igui meta (three igui), gbogbo ilegue iñale ni Obatalá, eyerbale, ekú, eja, epó, awadó, opolopo owó (much money).

NOTA: The person who gets this Ifá cannot get wet with rainwater because he is destroyed. Take great care of the stomach. He must take a decoction of the cogollo of almácigo.

Before finishing the ebbó, ashé is thrown on the person in the lerí, and eyerbale of abeboadie is given to the lerí and to the ebbó, placing the lerí of the abeboadie on the person's lerí.

PATAKIN:

In the land of Abeyami there lived an awo leri Ifa [source phrase; the source does not establish whether this is a title or a personal name], who had no knowledge of anything of Ifá, but he did have a great ambition to do something.

Obatalá had given him his ashé, but had always advised him to acquire knowledge so that one day he would not lose his luck and the ashé he had given him.

Many aleyos from different parts of the territory in which he lived visited this awo's house, and awo leri Ifa did his works for each one according to their needs. But these aleyos finished their works, left, and did not return, and awo leri Ifa did not worry about them because new aleyos always came whom Abeyami Lade Ifá brought; she was an obini whom everyone had faith in and admired because she sang very beautifully.

Abeyami Lade Ifá was a daughter of Shangó, and to attract the aleyos to awo leri Ifa, she would begin to sing and smile:

ABE LELE AWO AFEFE LORUN ABELELE
AWO AFEFE LORUN ABELELE MOYARE ABELELE
AWO AFEFE LORUN AWO MEDIMO OLOFIN BIASHE.

Olofin liked Abeyami Lade Ifá's song and bestowed his ashé. What she told the people of the land Abeyami was what they did; when Abeyami Lade Ifá performed her ceremony, she always scattered many feathers or juju; these feathers were from white abeboadie.

In the land Abereni Lorun lived Olofin, Elegba and Shangó; one day Olofin called Elegba and Shangó and told them to go and see what awo leri Ifa was doing.

Shangó and Elegba disguised themselves. When they arrived at awo leri Ifa's town, Shangó told Elegba to go to awo leri Ifa's house so that he would consult with him and see how he conducted himself.

awo leri Ifa did not know Elegba, and when he consulted him he began to tell him many lies, while Elegba remained silent; when Elegba finished confirming that this one knew nothing, he went to where Shangó was waiting for him and explained to him what the situation of awo leri Ifa was, who was a godchild of Orunmila.

Then both set out for Orunmila's house. When they arrived, they rendered moforibale to Orunmila, and afterwards Shangó said to him: “I come to speak of my child Abeyami Lade Ifá, because she is helping awo leri Ifa, who knows nothing at all, and a way must be found for him to learn Ifá.”

Orunmila explained to Shangó and Elegba that awo leri Ifa had ashé from Olorun, to which Shangó answered that that did not matter, because the luck he had was for a time, and that for all things in life one must seek security in wisdom and not in ashé; that is why he had to learn.

Orunmila fell silent and said to Shangó: “It is true, it is true, you are right.” [source: ORUNMILA SE CAYO LA BOCA; apparently for se calló la boca, “he fell silent.” The source does not say he was amazed or open-mouthed.] Then Shangó said to him: “Well, for him to learn we have to keep my daughter seven years without going out into the street.”

While Elegba, who was the one caring for and entertaining Abeyami Lade Ifá by telling her stories, Shangó went to the land Abeyami and stood at the entrance of the town, and to everyone who arrived to go to awo leri Ifa's house he said that awo leri Ifa was sick in the lerí and that because of that illness he had lost his memory, remembering nothing.

After a short time, awo leri Ifa, seeing that everything was constant interruption and obstruction [todo era interrupción] and things were not going well for him as before, since everything was setbacks and he could resolve nothing — and he did not even see Beyami Lade Ifá — decided to go to Orunmila's house.

When he left to go to Orunmila's house, the first one he met was Shangó, and he told him everything that was happening to him. Shangó said to him: “Imagine — my daughter is enslaved, and everything you have had has been because of her. You have to go and learn Ifá at Orunmila's house; Elegba is waiting for you there. Let us go there.”

When they arrived they found Elegba and Abeyami Lade Ifá; Shangó and awo leri Ifa gave moforibale to Orunmila, and he said to awo leri Ifa: “This has happened to you because you have not learned Ifá, and all that you have been and done has been due to the great power and the ashé that Abeyami Lade Ifá has.” At once Shangó and Elegba answered: “We will accompany you so that everything turns out well for you.”

In this way Efefe Lekun, sent by Olofin, gave knowledge and luck to awo leri Ifa.