The Life of Odi Ogunda
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
Odí tola
Translator's note: The translation follows the source extract. All ritual, medical, and sacrificial statements are reproduced as the source presents them; they are attributed source material, not advice. Yoruba-derived ritual formulas, prayers, and rezo lines are reproduced exactly as printed, without translation or correction.
Adifafun (preserved verbatim):
Odí Ogunda kinamu ibu omu adifafun akue ashe akuko lebo yamagara adifafun alaku akuko ida, oti, owo mesan elebo.
Source provenance. Translation of odu 69, Odí Ogunda, from the individual extract 069 Odi Ogunda — Tratado fuente (Google Docs). The linked document is an individual extract containing the formal material and five numbered story headings (1–5).
The Patakín Corpus — 1 to 5
Presented in strict numerical order as in the source Tratado. Click any title to read it.
01The ebbó Did Not Arrive in Time
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Patakín:
There was a young man whose mother liked to sing and dance with a little drum she had, but her son had already warned her not to play that little drum anymore; but the mother paid no attention, and when her son was not watching her she would go off to an open lot with the young men she invited, and there she held her parties without her son finding out.
One day the son had a dream with the egguns and told his mother about it, and afterward he went to consult Ifá with Orúnmila, who saw this Ifá for him and marked ebbó with: malaguidi meyi (okuni and obini), two ilu keke, and other ingredients. Meanwhile his mother went out to the open lot to celebrate her party with the young men, as usual, where the egguns fell upon her with blows, and she began to call her son, but he did not hear her, and the egguns broke her leri, and as a consequence of the blows she died.
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