Odi Irete (Odi Irete · Odi Irete)

Source title: El machete.

Ebbó: akuko, etu meyi, a machete, a ladder, a bottle of oti, owo la maro. [“Una botella de oti” is “a bottle of oti”; oti is retained as printed. owo la maro is retained as printed.]

Odí Leke [The source prints Odí Leke here, between the ebbó and the Patakin; it may be a running page header rather than a heading of this patakin.]

Patakin:

Orúnmila was indiscreet enough to tell a woman that she had cut the hairs of her parts and moreover was unwell with her menstrual period, and that she had a strip tied at her waist, and that her husband had another woman. [“Tuvo la ligereza de” is literally “had the levity to”; the context is imprudent disclosure, so it is rendered “was indiscreet enough to.” “Mala con su costumbre” is literally “unwell with her custom”; costumbre is a euphemism here, and “menstrual period” is a contextual rendering, not a literal translation. “Una tira amarrada en la cintura” is “a strip tied at her waist.”]

When the woman returned to her house she told her husband everything and affirmed to him that everything Orúnmila had said or divined was true. The jealous husband took his machete and went to look for Orúnmila to kill him, but Orúnmila was up high — that is, on the barbacoa (raised platform) of his house — feeding his head etu meyi. [The printed afirmo lacks its accent and is read as afirmó, “affirmed.” “Barbacoa” is glossed as a raised platform so that it is not read as the English barbecue.]

The man who was going so furiously, on climbing the stairs, fell, and with the same machete with which he was going to kill Orúnmila he thrust it into himself, and from the wound he received he died. [“Se lo enterró” is reflexive or indirect in form: literally “he buried it in himself/him.” The context gives “into himself,” but the source does not spell out the pronoun's force.]