OGBE KA
ÒGBÈ ÌKÁ · OGBE AYOKA
Prayer
OGBE KA ADIFAYOKO KAFUN ASHEBEREBERE OMO OLOFIN OBA.
Súyere
NANA OKUNAYE EKUTALE, NANA ANANIYO, KUTALE NANA.
Born in this sign
- 1.- THE LINES OF THE HANDS
- 2.- THE PROPERTY OVER THE LAND
- 3.- ALTARS.
Description of the sign
OGBE KA IS A HUMBLE AND FORTUNATE PERSON, DESTINED TO RULE OVER HIS PEOPLE, TO WHOM OLODUMARE GRANTS POWER AND WEALTH, YET WHO IS SURROUNDED BY SLANDER, ENVY, AND BLACKMAIL. HE IS NOT VERY BELIEVING AND HAS A DIFFICULT CHARACTER—FALSE AS SMOKE AND SOUR AS A LEMON. HE MUST BEWARE OF PRIDE, HIS MEMORY, AND HIS WHIMS, FOR THEY ARE OFTEN THE CAUSE OF HIS OWN MISFORTUNE.
HIS DESTINY ON EARTH IS TO SERVE IFÁ AS A DIVINER, FOR HE WAS BORN WITH THE ASHÉ OF OLOFIN, AND TO ATTAIN POWER AND PROSPERITY BY LIVING HUMBLY, PERFORMING EBÓ, RECEIVING IFÁ, AND ATTENDING TO ELEGBA, SHANGÓ, AND OSHOSI, WHILE GUARDING HIMSELF AGAINST JUSTICE, SLANDER, AND FALSEHOOD.
IN OGBE KA THE JACKAL SPEAKS.
IT IS THE IFA OF THE SMALLWARES STORE. LIVING AS A HUMBLE PERSON IS HOW THE AWO OGBE KA LIVES BEST.
OGBE KA IS NOT VERY BELIEVING, OR HE PAYS LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE THINGS HE IS TOLD TO DO.
OGBE KA IS THE ONE WHO IS FALSE AS SMOKE, SOUR AS LEMON, AND A SHAME IN HIS HOUSE.
AWO OGBE KA WILL REIGN OVER ALL HIS FELLOW CITIZENS WHO WILL PAY HIM RESPECT, BUT WILL SLANDER HIM.
TO OGBE KA OLODUMARE GRANTS POWER AND WEALTH.
IFA PUTS THE DESTINY IN ORDER AND ALSO USES IT.
IT IS THE MAN WHO LOST KNOWLEDGE ON EARTH.
HERE THE PERSON IS FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE OR LIVES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.
OGBE KA IS A PERSON WITH GOOD FORTUNE AND WHO WAS BORN TO BE A DIVINER, SINCE HE HAS THE ASHE OF OLOFIN.
IT IS AN IFA OF BLACKMAIL AND SLANDER.
IN THIS ODÙ, THE PERSON IS INSTRUCTED TO SET UP AN ALTAR, FOR THIS IS WHERE ALTARS WERE BORN.
THIS IS WHERE ONE RECEIVES SHOPE OF IKÚ, FOR WE ALL MUST DIE.
The description of this odù continues in the app, with 41 more sections.
Proverbs
- TO PASS JUDGMENT, YOU MUST HEAR BOTH SIDES; OTHERWISE, DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN THE MATTER.
- WHEN TWO RAMS FIGHT, ONE OF THEM MUST LOSE.
- TWO RAMS DO NOT DRINK WATER FROM THE SAME SPRING.
- A SLANDERER IS A MAN WITH A DAGGER IN HIS FOREHEAD.
- WHEN A SUIT IS MADE FOR A VAGABOND, IT SHOULD BE DYED BLACK SO THAT THE DIRT WILL NOT SHOW.
- AN ELDER WHO OVERSTEPS HIS LIMITS LOSES ALL RESPECT AND PRESTIGE.
- IF YOU WISH TO HELP ANOTHER PERSON, DO IT COMPLETELY.
- HE WHO ALREADY HAS COMPLETE GOOD FORTUNE SHOULD NOT GO LOOKING FOR MORE.
- IT HAS BEEN DISCOVERED, YET IT DOES NOT CARRY THE THING.
Patakís of Ogbe ka
- OGBE EKA DIVINED FOR SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE BIRD FAMILY WHEN THEY WERE IN HEAVEN.
- OGBE EKA DIVINED FOR UDI (UDERO).
- OGBE EKA DIVINED FOR OGÚN IN HEAVEN.
- HOW THE OTHER DEITIES OBTAINED THEIR CROWNS.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR THE HEAD (THE FIRST OR FRONT PART).
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR A PREGNANT WOMAN.
- OGBE AYOKA COMES OUT OF HEAVEN TO EARTH.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR ORÚNMILA WHEN HE WENT TO IKA. (THE LINES OF THE HANDS)
- WHEN IT WAS CONSULTED FOR ORUNMILA’S SON.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR ORÚNMILA WHEN HE WAS RETURNING TO HIS HOUSE.
- THE GOAT AND THE ELEPHANT.
- THE FISH THIEF.
- WHEN ASHEBEREBE OMO OLOFÍN WANTED TO VINDICATE HIMSELF.
- THE ENVY AND GREED OF MEN.
- THE CAP OF ELEGBARA, WHICH WAS HIS INSHE OSANYIN.
And 8 more patakíes of this sign, complete, in the app.
Ogbe 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.
