OTURA DI
ÒTÚRÁ ÒDÍ · OTURA ODI
Prayer
OTURA DI IFA OTUN DI ANSO BEDUN MA INI ADIFAFUN BEBE BEMBE LOBESE AGBAN ALA KAFEREFUN OBATALA ATI SHANGO.
Súyere
«EMISO OBALUBE ALAKOSO MONIJERE MEYE»
Born in this sign
- 1.- ELEGBARA, WHO IS THE OWNER OF THE WILL.
Description of the sign
THE PERSON OF OTURA DI POSSESSES AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL AND A RESTLESS MIND. THEY ARE OBSERVANT, PERCEPTIVE AND CAPABLE OF UNCOVERING SECRETS, DECEPTIONS AND HIDDEN SITUATIONS. THEY HAVE GIFTS FOR KNOWLEDGE AND FOR UNDERSTANDING WHAT OTHERS DO NOT SEE. HOWEVER, THEY MUST AVOID IMPULSIVENESS, BAD INFLUENCES, EXCESSIVE TRUST AND DECISIONS MADE UNDER THE EFFECT OF PASSIONS OR ANGER.
YOUR DESTINY IS TO TRIUMPH THROUGH WISDOM, PERSISTENCE, AND FOLLOWING THE ADVICE OF IFÁ. THIS ODÙ TEACHES THAT WILL CAN OPEN PATHS WHERE EVERYTHING SEEMS CLOSED, BUT ONLY WHEN IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY HUMILITY, SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE, AND GOOD CHARACTER.
HERE ELEGBARA WAS BORN, WHO IS THE OWNER OF WILL.
IT IS AN IFÁ OF BETRAYAL, WHERE THE SECRETS DEPOSITED IN THE PERSON ARE REVEALED. THE MAN HANDS OVER THE SECRETS THROUGH THE BODY OF A WOMAN.
WHEN A PERSON LOOKS AT HIMSELF AND THIS ODÙ COMES OUT, HE KNOWS AS MUCH AS THE AWÓ. HERE THE IBEJIS DEFEATED THE DEVIL.
YOU MUST RECEIVE ODÙDÚWÀ SO THAT THE PERSON HAS A BRAKE ON THEIR IMPULSES.
HERE THE PERSON IS CARELESS ABOUT PERSONAL HYGIENE AND DOES NOT LIKE TO BATHE. ORUNMILA DOES NOT MIX WITH PLAGUE OR FILTH.
BY THIS IFÁ THE PERSON MAY SUFFER EMBARRASSMENT BECAUSE OF A WOMAN AND AFTERWARD WILL ATTEMPT AGAINST HIS LIFE.
HERE THERE IS WAR BETWEEN FATHER AND CHILDREN, AND CHILDREN’S ILL GRATITUDE FOR THE PARENTS’ SACRIFICE.
THE WOMAN, TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS OR THE WHIM OF HER CHILDREN, MAY GIVE HERSELF TO A MAN WITHOUT LOVING HIM.
THIS ODÙ SPEAKS OF A MATERIALIZED EGÚN WHO IS DETERMINED TO END THE LIVES OF EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE, BECAUSE HE BELIEVES HE OWNS IT. A MASS OR ROGATION WILL BE PERFORMED SO THAT THIS EGÚN TAKES THE RIGHT PATH.
IN THIS IFÁ OSHANLÁ WAS THE GUARDIAN OF THE BATÁ DRUMS AND ALSO HELD THE SECRET OF THE YAM. LATER YEMAYÁ MANAGED TO GIVE THE DRUMS TO HER SON SHANGÓ, AND SINCE THEN SHANGÓ HAS BEEN THE OWNER OF BATÁ MUSIC.
BY THIS IFÁ, A PRENDA CALLED AYIÑA BEMBE KIGOSHE IS ASSEMBLED, WHICH LIVES WITH THE IBEJIS, AND WITH IT ALL MALEFIC SENDINGS THAT REACH THE HOUSE ARE DESTROYED.
WHEN DIVINATION IS DONE FOR A SICK PERSON AND OSOBO COMES UP, THE PERSON CAN DIE IN SEVEN DAYS. THE AWÓ MUST ASK ORUNMILA WHETHER HE IS AUTHORIZED TO DO SOMETHING FOR THAT PERSON.
AFTERWARDS A BLACK DOVE IS GIVEN TO ABITÁ TO REMOVE THE EVIL FROM THE SICK PERSON.
The description of this odù continues in the app, with 22 more sections.
Proverbs
- WHEN THE CAT IS NOT AT HOME, THE MOUSE MAKES MERRY.
- WHOEVER IS STANDING, THE WHOLE WORLD SURROUNDS. WHOEVER IS FALLEN, NOBODY KNOWS.
- WHEN A SECRET IS PACTED, LIFE IS WAGERED ON IT.
- THE UNGRATEFULNESS OF A SON TOWARD HIS PARENTS IS SENTENCED BY OLODUMARE.
- IT IS BRUTAL IGNORANCE THAT MAKES THE MOUSE CHALLENGE THE CAT TO A FIGHT.
Patakís of Otura di
- OLOBAHUN AND THE PREGNANT WOMAN.
- THE BILLY GOAT WHO WANTED TO MARRY.
- HOW BATÁ BECAME THE KING OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
- THE ELEPHANT AND THE PIT.
- ORÚNMÌLÀ AND THE LAND OF THE WOMEN.
- THE MUSICAL DRUMS AND THE FORTUNE OF ILE-IPE.
- THE CHAMELEON THAT RECEIVED ITS FOOD FROM THE AIR.
- THE DRUM THAT STOPPED A WAR.
- WHERE THE IBEJIS DEFEATED THE DEVIL.
- ELEGBARA WAS BORN, WHO IS THE OWNER OF THE WILL.
- MAYESI, FAVORITE SON OF ORUNMILA, SAVED HIS FATHER.
- WHEN SHANGÓ AND ELEGBARA SEIZED THE DRUMS.
- OSHANLÁ, GUARDIAN OF THE DRUMS AND OF THE SECRET OF THE YAM.
- THE TOAD AND THE IBEJIS.
- THE TOAD AND THE GUARDIERO.
And 16 more patakíes of this sign, complete, in the app.
Otura di 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.
