The Life of Odi Ose
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.
Source and Attribution
- Odù: Odí Oshe, number 075.
- Source title: 075 Odi Oshe — Tratado fuente.
- Source collection: Tratado Enciclopédico de Ifá.
- Native source URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iM_NyzGT9GH5-l8oIJmL5jolyMMyjmGGbZhjlZCFmKM/edit?usp=drivesdk
- Name forms: Odí Oshe and Odí She.
- Section-boundary correction: The individual extract included “Tratado Enciclopédico de Ifá / Odí Fumbo” immediately before the master’s next heading, “Odí Fun.” Those boundary lines are not an attribution of these stories to Odi Ofun. The master lists all three stories under “Relación de historias o patakines de Odí She”; Story 3 also names Odí She in its final sentence.
The Patakín Corpus — 1 to 3
Presented in strict numerical order as in the source Tratado. Click any title to read it.
01The Hen's Eggs
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Patakin:
The hen laid her eggs every day, believing that after three Fridays she would hatch her chicks, but her enemies—the cochinilla and the worms and the other insects—pecked at her eggs, leaving them completely empty. [“Cochinilla” is retained as printed; the source gives no species.] The hen, tired of being on top of her eggs, one day got up and went to Orúnmila's house, and he told her to make ebbó with 5 eggs, worms, a rooster, and two young chickens (pollones). She did so, and from then on she acquired sight, and when the insects came to peck at her she saw them and killed them, and that is why, ever since, when the hen is sitting (echada), she pecks.
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