The Life of Odi Otrupon
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 Batuto
Translator's note: All ritual, medical, and sacrificial statements below 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; runs of multiple spaces are collapsed to single spaces, with no word changed, added, or removed. The source's numbering and its Rezo:, Ebbó:, and Patakin: labels are retained. In the ebbó lists, ordinary Spanish is translated and Yoruba-derived terms are retained as printed. Where the source does not explain a term or leaves a referent open, the translation does not supply a meaning.
Opening formula (preserved verbatim):
Odí batrupon yabole apu oto ashikale sheyo ashikale kile feleni owo kile feleni oto.
Source provenance. Translation of odu 72, Odí Trupon, from the individual extract 072 Odi Oturupon — Tratado fuente (Google Docs). The linked document is an individual extract containing the formal material and two numbered stories.
The Patakín Corpus — 1 to 2
Presented in strict numerical order as in the source Tratado. Click any title to read it.
01When Yemayá Raised yobolobo
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Rezo (preserved verbatim):
Rezo: yobolobo apu oto ashikale sheye ashikale kile feleni.
Ebbó: akuko, eyele, ewefa, eko, opolopo owo.
Patakin:
Here Yemayá raised yobolobo, and when he became a man he never took care of her.
yobolobo came into the world and Yemayá began to raise him until he became a man, and Yemayá taught him everything she knew of the religion, and yobolobo went on being raised in that way.
It turned out that yobolobo was already a man and did not take care of Yemayá, and she was always requiring this of him, but he lived unconcerned about everything and paid no attention.
After some time yobolobo fell ill in the legs and in the belly, and for this cause he suffered great setbacks in everything, since he had no one to help him because he helped no one in anything.
Then he remembered Orúnmila and went to see him, and he performed osode for him and saw this Ifá for him and told him that he had to make rogation (with what is marked in the ebbó) and that he should make rogation to Yemayá with akuko and eyele so that she would let him bathe in the sea, so that he might come out of his setbacks.
Yobolobo did so and went to see Yemayá, and she, after scolding him as he deserved for the great disobediences he had, let him bathe in the sea and told him that in exchange for this he had to give Shangó two akuko so that he might finish settling his problems.
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