The Life of Odi Obara
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.
Odu Invocation and Source Provenance
Translator's note: The translation follows the source extract cited below; ritual, medical, and sacrificial statements are attributed source material, not advice.
Adifáfun (preserved verbatim):
Adifáfun ekuekueye osha odara waye adafun adie orubo. Adie okani odara.
Source provenance. Translation of odu 67, Odi Bara / Odi Obara, from the individual extract 067 Odi Obara — Tratado fuente (Google Docs). The linked document is an individual extract rather than the full source tratado; it contains the formal material and seven story headings (1–7). The translated text reads Odi Bara, the registry title reads Odi Obara, and the adifafun line prints Adifáfun; those forms are preserved without normalization.
The Patakín Corpus — 1 to 7
Presented in strict numerical order as in the source Tratado. Click any title to read it.
01It Was Not Known Who the Thief Was
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Patakin:
When Shangó was hungry he said to Yemayá that he was going to find something to eat. He took a saddlebag and climbed onto Yemayá's shoulders and directed her to a plot of Oggun's land and stole yam from him, but the thief's footprints were left marked.
Oggun sent for Shangó for the test, and it was not proven that it was Shangó. At that, Oggun met Yemayá and questioned her, and she answered him: “My hands did not touch that theft.” It was not known who the thief was.
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