ODI KA
ÌDÍ ÌKÁ · ÌDÍN KÁKÁ
Prayer
IFA ODI OTA OJORA EBENI EMU OMORO OLLEN ARARE BOLE ADIFAFUN OGUNFO UMBATI UMBOLE ELLE OCOLOCHU OGUELERO OWO GUISO CUMANDELEDE LA MOSE IBE E ECHIN LOFILE ESUN ADAFANFUNRIOLLE, TINCHOMO ELLA LORUN BOCORUMI BOBERIMI GUINPACHE CAFUN JACHO.
Súyere
«OBA KERELE OBA KERELE
OYU KERELE OBA KERELE
EGUN KERELE OBA KERELE
ODÙDÚWÀ KERELE OBA KERELE.»
Born in this sign
- ODI KA OKOLOYU OPUA ADIFAFUN ORISAYE TINSHOMO AYALORUN OBA NIFA TINSHOMO OLOFIN OBA ORISAYE ADIFAFUN EGUN OYIBA ORUN MAFEREFUN SHANGO ORISAYE OBAYE ADIFAFUN ODUDUWA.
- 1.- ISALAYE NI ODUDUWA.
- 2.- WHY THOSE WHO YOKO OSHA DRESS IN WHITE FOR A YEAR. 3.- THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE THIEF. 4.- TENTA ORUN. 5.- WHY THE BAT SLEEPS WITH THE LERI FACING DOWN. 6.- THAT THE MAN IS KILLED FOR THE FIRST TIME. 7.- THE PRESENTATION OF THE IYAWOS TO THE DRUM.
- DESCRIPTION OF THE ODDUN.
- IFA OF THE MASK, THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE THIEF IS BORN.
- YOU WILL ENTER AND LEAVE THE GRAVE.
- THIS IFA IS ASKING FOR FOOD, GIVE ADIE MEYI DUN DUN TO ORUNMILA AND UNYEN TO ELEDA AND TO IYA.
- BE CAREFUL WITH COLLISIONS AND ACCIDENTS IN THE HOUSE.
- YEMAYA MUST BE GIVEN DRUMS.
- THIS ODDUN IS DESTRUCTIVE. IN AN ATEFA THE AWO ODI KA MUST NOT MARK ITS SIGN IN THE SECRET OF LERI; IT MUST MARK OGBE TUA OR BABA EJIOGBE, FOR ODI KA HAS NO LERI, BABA EJIOGBE AND OGBE TUA ARE GIVEN TO IT.
- THIS ODDUN, WHEN IT APPEARS IN AN ATEFA, THE PERSON MUST WITHDRAW, FOR ODI KA TRULY MARKS IMPRISONMENT.
- THE OWNER OF THIS IFA MUST BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DOING OBORI WITH EYA BO, BECAUSE IT IS FOR SURE THAT THE PERSON WHO DOES IT DOES NOT MAKE IT PAST THE YEAR.
Description of the sign
THIS ODÙ WARNS OF SEVERE PUNISHMENTS FOR BAD ACTIONS.
WARNS THAT THE PERSON FACES A POTENTIAL BETRAYAL IN BUSINESS OR IN THEIR PERSONAL SECRETS.
THIS IS AN IFA OF IMMORALITIES.
HERE TENTE ORUN AND ODÙDÚWÀ WERE BORN.
THE OWNER OF THIS ODÙ WILL ALWAYS BE MAKING PARALDO AND WILL ALWAYS LIVE AMONG ENEMIES; HE MUST NEVER FAIL ODÙDÚWÀ AND OLOFIN IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO LIVE.
THIS ODÙ IS DESTRUCTIVE. IN A CONSECRATION CEREMONY OF AN ALAWO, ODI KA SHOULD NOT MARK ITS ODÙ ON THE ALAWO’S HEAD; IT SHOULD MARK EJIOGBE OR OGBE TUA, BECAUSE ODI KA HAS NO HEAD, SINCE THESE TWO ODÙS ARE THE ONES WHO GIVE IT ONE. THEREFORE, WHEN THIS ODÙ APPEARS IN AN ATEFA, IT MUST BE REMOVED (IT IS ERASED) AND IS NOT WRITTEN AGAIN ON THE TABLE; WHEN IT IS ERASED, A PRAYER IS SAID; BECAUSE ODI KA DOES TRULY MARK A TRUE BINDING.
HERE THE PRESENTATION OF THE IYAWO TO THE DRUM WAS BORN, AND THE REASON WHY THEY MUST DRESS IN WHITE FOR A FULL YEAR.
THIS IS A MASK IFÁ.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE THIEF IS BORN.
HERE ONE ENTERS AND EXITS THE TRAP OR THE GRAVE.
WHEN THIS ODÙ COMES UP, IFÁ IS ASKING FOR FOOD, 2 BLACK HENS ARE GIVEN, THE HEAD IS PRAYED OVER, FOOD IS GIVEN TO OSHA AND TO THE MOTHER IF SHE IS DECEASED.
ALSO THIS ODÙ PREDICTS ACCIDENTS IN THE HOUSE AND IN THE STREET.
SE LE DEBERÁ DAR TAMBOR A YEMAYA.
A AWO ODI KA, GREAT CARE MUST BE TAKEN WHEN ASKING FOR HIS HEAD WITH SNAPPER, FOR WHOEVER DOES SO MUST PERFORM WORKS SO THAT THEY DO NOT DIE WITHIN ONE YEAR. ODI KA WAS THE FIRST ON EARTH TO ASK MEN FOR THE HEAD. THE FIRST WAS TO BABA EJIOGBE, THE SECOND TO OGBE-TUA, THE THIRD TO OGUNDA-FUN, AND THE FOURTH TO OSA LOFOBEYO.
THE AWO ODI KA: THE HEAD IS PRAYED OVER WITH A FRESH FISH THAT HAS A LARGE TONGUE, AND SEAWATER. THEN, WITH THAT TONGUE, AN INSHE-OSANYIN IS MOUNTED.
The description of this odù continues in the app, with 53 more sections.
Proverbs
- HE WHO APPLAUDS THE ACTS OF A WICKED MAN IS OF HIS OWN KIND.
- TO LIVE IN PEACE, IT IS MORE NECESSARY TO HIDE MERIT THAN DEFECTS.
- THERE IS NO DIVINE JUSTICE ON EARTH.
- THE VAMPIRE LIVES, IT SLEEPS FACE DOWN; ITS SON THE BAT SLEEPS FACE DOWN, BUT IF YOU SLEEP FACE DOWN, YOUR STOMACH WILL CHOKE YOUR NECK.
- SAID ODÙDÚWÀ: I AM THE KING OF MYSTERY.
Patakís of Odi ka
- THE DIVINER FOR UGBA, THE CALABASH: (THE TREE).
- HE CONSULTED ORACLE FOR AIYE.
- DIVINATION BEFORE LEAVING HEAVEN.
- DIVINED FOR THE MOTHER OF IKUMAKPAYI.
- HE DIVINED FOR THE TORTOISE AND THE ADULT RAM.
- WHERE IFÁ BECAME THE FIRST PALERO.
- TENTE-ORUN WAS BORN.
- THE PACT OF ORUN AND ORUNMILA.
- OLOFIN’S CURSE ON THE BAT, THE MAJA AND THE SLUG.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR ABATEJINE.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR OLOKUN AND OLOSA.
- THE MAN WHO DIED FOR NOT BELIEVING IN ORUNMILA.
- THE PRESENTATION TO THE ILU BATA DRUM IS BORN.
- THE FOOD FOR THE 16 MAJOR ODÙS.
- THERE IS NO DIVINE JUSTICE ON EARTH.
And 9 more patakíes of this sign, complete, in the app.
Odi ka 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.
