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Oyeku Okanran (Oyeku Okana · Oyeku Okanran)

A disobeyed curfew costs a prince his life, while Aye curses her own children into confusion until Obatala, Shango, and Oshun restore the lost paint that lets the community consecrate its own again.

Speaks: Aye · Azówano (Shakuana) · Esu / Eleguá / Elegba / Papa Legba Stage 1 & 2 complete
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Part 1 · Narrative

The Life of Oyeku Okanran

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.

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Part 2 · Patakines

The Patakín Corpus — 1 to 7

Presented in strict numerical order as in the source Tratado. Click any title to read it.

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Patakín 1 — The Disobedience

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EBBÓ: orubo ishu igun, ori, efun, owo la mesan. [As written; the Tratado gives no further detail.]

PATAKÍN: One day the king saw this letter [esta letra: this sign] and gave the order that no one should go out into the street at night, and he placed guards throughout the city, so that whoever went out would be killed. The king's son had to go out, and his father told him not to go out; he said that all the guards knew him. He went out into the street, and Oggun found him and killed him.

This sign is a son of Obatala and has to receive it [tiene que recibirlo; "him" or "it" is not specified] for his own good. [The Secondary reads: "if he is a son of Obatala, he must receive it for his own good." Both are given; they are not harmonized.]

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Patakín 2 — The Path of the Majadero

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EBBÓ: akuko, osiadie meyi, asho fun fun, dun dun, bogbo ewe, a little doll, a trumpet, eku, eya, epo, awado, oñi, oti, ori, efun, yarako, opolopo owo.

DISTRIBUTION: The akuko with its ingredients for Oduduwa; an osiadie with its ingredients for Eshu; an osiadie with its ingredients for Oparaldo.

PATAKÍN: He was a very naughty boy, bad and hard-headed [cabeza dura], and he did what no one wanted him to do. His mother advised the boy much, but he paid her no attention. One day the little rascal [pilluelo] went off to the monte, which was forbidden to him by his parents because of the great danger that it represented and that he ran there. There a shrub caught his attention, which belonged to the very god of the monte, and he destroyed it; and the god, seeing such an act, enchanted him and shut him in.

Elegba, seeing what was happening, sent the owunko [the Secondary reads "the goat"] to protect the boy, and when the owunko reached the shrub, it damaged the other part of it with its horns [astas]. The god thought it was the boy himself and grew even more furious. But Ayaguna, the representation of Oduduwa, made his appearance and said to the god of the monte: "It was not the boy but the owunko." And they accused the owunko.

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