The Life of Iwori Oyeku
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 Disobedient
- Elegba — 1. The Disobedient
- Ozain — 3. Flies Do Not Enter a Closed Mouth
Divine Personages
- The dead man in the prenda — 4. The Woman and the Prenda
Animals
- Olukoun / Dogidodi — 2. Because He Could Not Have a Bride, He Takes Off Running. Olukoun is the same figure the source identifies as Dogidodi, the bird that copulates with the trees.
Plants
None carries a narrative role.
The Patakín Corpus — 1 to 4
Presented in strict numerical order as in the source Tratado. Click any title to read it.
01The Disobedient
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Rezo: IWORI YEKU ADIFAFUN AKADO OKUNI MOTUMBA AWIGBO LODAFUN ELEGBA IFA NI KAFEREFUN ORUNMILA.
Ebó: one akukó, one little cart, two ikordie.
Patakin:
There was a man who looked very bad; he was going through much hardship, so he went to Orunmila, who saw this Ifá for him; there Orunmila told him that he had to orugbo[^orugbo] with a little cart, ikordie, and that he should not do favors for anyone, and that when he threw the ebó he should not stop anywhere.
The man did not obey. On the road he met a man with a stuck cart, who turned out to be Elegba, who was lamenting that he could not bring food to his children because his cart was stuck.
The man took pity on him; he let go of the ebó, placing it beside the wheel of the cart, and began to help until the cart was unstuck. But when he went to look for the ebó he saw that it had stuck to the cart wheel, and, shouting much at the cart man, when he went to pick up the ebó, he fell and the wheel split one of his legs, and he had to have it amputated because of his disobedience.[^syntax]
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