ODI BARA
IDÍ ÒBÀRÀ · IDIN BANBAN DIN
Prayer
ODI BARA INDI BARALAGUE TINCHOMO ON ERIOLOGUN ADIFAFUN AGURO UM V ATI OTE ORONIFA ENI.
Súyere
YEYE NIBO ONISHERE AYENIBAO NISERERE.
Born in this sign
- ADIFAFUN EKUEKUEYE OSHA ODARA WAYE ADAFUN ADIE ORUBO. ADIE OKANI ODARA.
- 1.- MARRIAGE.
- 2.- THE TRAGEDY BETWEEN OBATALA AND IKU.
- DESCRIPTION OF THE ODDUN.
- ON THIS PATH THE EKUEKUEYE (THE DUCK), THIS ONE REMAINED
- DISPLACED, AS WELL AS ITS POSTURES, THROUGH THE ADIE AND THEIR POSTURES AS FOOD OF THE OCHAS, IFA OF SUPPLANTATION.
- HERE THE WAR OF THE PEONY SPEAKS, WHEN THE BLACK PART FOUGHT AGAINST THE RED PART AND MADE SO MUCH NOISE THAT, WHEN SHANGÓ HEARD THEM, HE TOOK THEM AND PUT THEM INSIDE A CALABASH, AND THUS HE MADE THE ASHERE.
- HERE WAS BORN THE TRAGEDY BETWEEN OBATALA AND IKU.
- AS LONG AS THE WORLD IS THE WORLD, THE SHADOW OF CONSCIENCE WILL HUNT THE MURDERERS.
- THE PERSON WHO HAS TO RECEIVE ORISHAOKO AND CANNOT DO SO AT THE MOMENT, IS GIVEN A WHITE AND RED PAINTED TILE SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE IT IN THEIR HOUSE.
- TAKE CARE OF THE SOFT AND MOIST PARTS OF THE BODY, DO NOT EXPOSE THEM TO THE SUN.
- IF SHE IS A WOMAN: TAKE VERY GOOD CARE OF HER BREASTS.
Description of the sign
IN THIS ODÙ THE BIRTH OF MARRIAGE OCCURRED. AFTER THE WAR THAT EXISTED BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, OBATALA, WHO HAD FOLLOWED THEM, GATHERED THEM THE NEXT DAY AND SAID: EVERY MAN WHO SLEPT WITH A WOMAN LAST NIGHT MUST OBEYAWO (MARRY) HER.
IT IS AN ODÙ OF WAR, FOR HERE THE BLACK PAWN AND THE RED PAWN FOUGHT, AND MADE SO MUCH NOISE THAT SHANGO, UPON HEARING IT, CAUGHT THEM, PUT THEM INSIDE A GOURD, AND THUS MADE THE ASHERÉ.
THE PERSON MUST NOT USE MACHETES.
IN THIS ODÙ THE TRAGEDY BETWEEN OBATALA AND DEATH (IKU) WAS BORN.
THIS IFÁ SPEAKS THAT, AS LONG AS THE WORLD IS THE WORLD, THE SHADOW OF CONSCIENCE WILL PURSUE THE MURDERERS.
IN THIS IFÁ SHANGO APPEARED ON EARTH. HE WAS BORN FROM THE BREASTS OF OBATALA THROUGH THE WORK AND GRACE OF OLODUMARE AND OLOFIN. OLOFIN ENTRUSTED HIM TO DADA IGBAÑI (CATHOLICISM: SANTA RITA DE ACACIA) TO RAISE HIM.
IN THIS ODÙ ORISHAOKO, WHILE PLOWING THE EARTH, FOUND SHANGO TRANSFORMED INTO AN OKUTA (STONE) OF LIGHTNING (ODÙ-ARA) AND HANDED IT TO OLOFIN, WHERE OLOFIN BLESSED ORISHAOKO, SAYING TO HIM: FROM TODAY ON, YOU WILL BE KING OF THE EARTH FOREVER. THE PERSON WITH THIS ODÙ MUST RECEIVE ORISHAOKO, AND IF FOR THE MOMENT THEY CANNOT RECEIVE HIM, A TILE PAINTED WHITE AND RED IS GIVEN TO THEM TO KEEP IN THEIR HOME. WHEN ORISHAOKO IS GOING TO BE CONSECRATED, THERE MUST BE AN ODÙ ARA.
HERE IFÁ WAS CONSULTED FOR THE PROSTITUTE SO THAT SHE WOULD NOT CONTRACT VENEREAL DISEASES.
HERE TWO AKUKÓ WERE GIVEN AND AN ASHÓ DUNDÚN WAS TIED AROUND THE ESHÚ OF OLOFIN’S WIFE SO THAT SHE COULD HAVE CHILDREN.
BY THIS ODÙ ONE MUST TAKE CARE OF THE MOIST PARTS OF THE BODY, THAT THEY ARE NOT EXPOSED TO THE SUN.
WOMAN: TAKE GREAT CARE OF YOUR BREASTS.
THIS ODÙ EXPLAINS WHY THE LEAVES OF IWEREYEYE ARE THE ONES USED TO SUBSTITUTE ANY OTHER HERB THAT IS MISSING IN AN OMIERO OF OSANYIN. IT CLEANSES AND SHIELDS FROM ANYTHING BAD.
IN THIS ODÙ, EVERY BAD TIME THE PERSON HAS, THEY ENTER A PLACE WHERE THEY MUST MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH THE HERBS, IN ORDER TO LEAVE BEHIND ALL THE BAD THEY HAVE.
THIS ODÙ PREDICTS THAT THE PERSON ALWAYS HAS ENEMIES WHO WILL TRY TO HARM OR DESTROY THEM OUT OF ENVY OR REVENGE, BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS FIND A STICK, AN HERB, A SEED, OR SOMEONE WHO WILL SAVE THEM, JUST AS OBATALA SAVED HIS CHILDREN FROM DEATH (IKU) AND HID THEM IN THE IWEREYEYE (PEONIES) BUSHES, AND WHEN THEIR ENEMIES CALMED DOWN BECAUSE THEY CONSIDERED HIM DESTROYED, HE CAME OUT STRIPPED OF ALL THAT IS EVIL.
IN THIS ODÙ, DEATH (IKU) PURSUES THE LIVING. A PEONY NECKLACE MUST BE WORN. THOSE WHO HAVE THIS ODÙ MUST HAVE A PEONY PLANT IN THEIR HOUSE AND PLACE A PEONY NECKLACE INSIDE THEIR IFÁ.
The description of this odù continues in the app, with 28 more sections.
Proverbs
- THE PEONY DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER IT WILL STAY DARK OR TURN RED.
- WHAT IT DOES WITH ITS HANDS, IT UNDONE WITH ITS FEET.
- THE DOG HAS FOUR LEGS, BUT ONLY ONE DIRECTION.
- MARRIAGE IS A PALACE WITH TWO DOORS, THE TRUE ONE AND THE FALSE ONE.
- WINE CAN DISTURB SOMEONE, BUT NO ONE CAN DISTURB WINE.
- I BENT DOWN AND DEATH PASSED OVER ME.
- IDIN DOES NOT FIGHT UNTIL IT REACHES OLD AGE.
Patakís of Odi bara
- ÉL HIZO ADIVINACIÓN PARA LOS PÁJAROS DEL BOSQUE.
- ÉL HIZO ADIVINACIÓN PARA LO “PROHIBIDO”.
- DIVINATION MADE BEFORE HE CAME DOWN TO EARTH.
- HE CONSULTED ORACLE FOR THE FARMER AND THE DEER (AGBORIN IN YORUBA AND ERHUE IN BENIN).
- DIVINATION FOR OLOFA WHEN HE AWAITS TWO VISITORS.
- WHEN THEY WERE DESTROYING THE CHILDREN OF IGI OGURO.
- THE PEASANT AND THE DEER.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR THE TREES.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR ODI AND OBARA.
- THE HEN WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS.
- THE APPEARANCE OF SHANGO ON EARTH.
- SHANGO CROWNS YEMAYA.
- THE BIRTH OF MARRIAGE.
- WHEN SHANGO WAS HUNGRY.
- SPEAKS THE CONSCIENCE OF THE PERSON.
And 4 more patakíes of this sign, complete, in the app.
Odi bara complete —with its entire description, as Ifá says, ewe, works and all the patakíes— is in the app Signos de Ifá, alongside the other 255 odù.
