OSA FOLOKO KANA
ÒSÁ ÒKÀNRÀN · OSA KANA
Prayer
OSA KANA IFÁ LODAFUN OLOKUN, MAFEREFUN ORUNMILA, SHANGÓ, YEMAYÁ, OBATALÁ, ELEDA ATI ALA.
Súyere
«BABA OLOFIN OMO SHANGO IYA BELEKE OYA IYANSAN OMO DIDE INLE OLOLUKOYE.»
Born in this sign
- OSA KANA OBARA ORI EGUN ADIFAFUN DAD BAÑANI, OWO, EYELE, OUNKO LEBO. MAFEREFUN SHANGO ATI YEMAYA.
- 1.- TRANSPORTATION.
- 2.- THE LOOMS, THE SPINNING WHEEL.
Description of the sign
OSA KANA IS AN UNSTABLE PERSON BUT VERY SPIRITUAL, WITH KNOWLEDGE AND GREAT TRIALS, WHO ONLY ACHIEVES BALANCE IF HE MASTERS HIS CHARACTER AND ATTENDS TO HIS RELIGIOUS PATH.
THIS ODÙ INDICATES THAT THE PERSON MUST MAKE SACRIFICES TO AVOID MISHAPS AND ACHIEVE TRANQUILITY, BEING VERY SENSITIVE TO EXTERNAL CHANGES.
IT IS A DIFFICULT IFÁ FOR THE AWO AND HIS FAMILY; IT MARKS EXPULSION FROM WORK, FROM THE HOUSE, OR FROM THE PLACE WHERE HE MAY BE.
IT IS AN IFÁ OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT IN THE BACKGROUND; IT IS NOT AN IFÁ OF BRILLIANCE.
HERE ESHU-ELEGBA IS THE ONE WHO BREAKS THINGS APART.
IN THIS ODÙ IT IS ASSUMED THAT EVERYTHING IS BADLY DONE, SO IT IS NECESSARY TO CONSTANTLY CORRECT.
THE PERSON EATS MORE WITH THE EYES THAN WITH THE MOUTH.
ONE CANNOT BE STINGY OR GREEDY.
PORK IS NOT EATEN.
NO ADIMÚ IS PLACED FOR THE SAINTS.
FOOD IS GIVEN TO OYÁ AND THEN SENT TO THE CEMETERY.
THE CHILD OF THIS ODÙ MUST WORK WITH THE DEAD AND PERFORM CONSTANT CEREMONIES TO OYÁ TO MAINTAIN BALANCE.
OGÚN WENT INTO THE FOREST SO AS NOT TO KILL YEMAYÁ.
IF IT IS A MAN, HE HAS TWO WOMEN; ONE DIES FROM ARROGANCE AND HER SPIRIT DISTURBS HIM, SHE BEING DAUGHTER OF SHANGÓ OR OYÁ.
THAT SPIRIT MUST BE FED SO THAT IT HELPS AND PRAYS.
The description of this odù continues in the app, with 29 more sections.
Proverbs
- WHAT STARTS BADLY, ENDS BADLY.
- IT EATS MORE WITH ITS EYES THAN WITH ITS MOUTH.
- IN THE SNAIL’S HOUSE, ONE CANNOT WALK IN A HURRY.
- WHOEVER DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO ENDURE MOCKERY SHOULD MOVE TO ANOTHER PLACE.
Patakís of Osa kana
- HE PERFORMED THE DIVINATION TO SAVE THE GUINEA FOWL FROM THE TIGER.
- WHEN THE GUINEA FOWL LOST ITS EGGS FOR REVEALING ITS SECRETS.
- ANOTHER VARIATION OF THE REVELATION ABOUT FALSE FRIENDS.
- THE FRIENDS WHO KILLED THEIR CHILDREN.
- HE PERFORMED DIVINATION FOR IKON, THE KING OF THE TERMITES.
- THE DIVINATION HE MADE BEFORE LEAVING HEAVEN.
- THE SPECIAL SACRIFICE FOR THE ENEMIES OF THE HOUSE.
- THE DIVINATION FOR LEMIKAN OF IJESHA.
- ÒRÚNMÌLÀ ADVISES NOT TO ABANDON ONE’S PATH.
- THE POWER OF OYA AND THE WILL OF ODÙDÚWÀ.
- WHERE THE GODFATHER AND THE GODSON HAVE TO SWEAR BY ORUN.
- WHEN AYAO AND OBON SAVED THE LAND OF TAKUA FROM OYA.
- THE DELAY OF OGÚN.
- DIVINATION WAS PERFORMED FOR THE ANTELOPE.
- ONLY OYÁ RESOLVED IT.
And 3 more patakíes of this sign, complete, in the app.
Osa kana 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.
