The Life of Iwori Otrupon
The continuous biography of this odù's own spiritual evolution — celestial works, then earthly works — told as one unfolding life. Click any title to read it.
Why You Must Travel — Ifá of Emigration
This Ifá is a journey, but it will go through many obstacles before may be able to do it and may stabilize. Iwori Otrupon is an Ifá of emigration. The consultando is, statistically, on the move — leaving a place that has become inhospitable, traveling through territory where nothing is oriented for him, arriving at the beach where the boat waits. The Awo at the chair must read this honestly: you have to move from where you live, especially if witchcraft has settled in the house.
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01The Strange Earth
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On this path, Orunmila arrived in his journey through different lands to a strange earth. The trees did not provide shade because the leaves were vertical — they grew sideways, edge-up, casting no shadow. The birds, instead of having feathers, had fur. This surprised him.
He started to take some time, looking for a place to shelter from the sun. When he went to take refuge under a tree, it did not give him shade. When he looked up at the birds, they had fur — no feathers. To his astonishment, he also noticed that the night was long and strange.
As the night passed into early morning, Orunmila performed Osode for himself. He saw this Ifá — Iwori Otrupon — which told him that he had to continue traveling through that land, but he had to do Ebó first.
After making the sacrifice, Orunmila walked for several days and nights through lands full of mounds, until reaching the entrance of a city. But — to his surprise — the city was uninhabited; all its inhabitants had fled.
He crossed the city and arrived at the beach. Walking along the sand, he saw written there: Iwori Otrupon. Another awo, who had been the diviner of that land, had inscribed his own Ifá's name in the sand for the next awo who came to read. The inscription marked the path to follow — to a boat waiting at the shore.
By this means, Orunmila was able to leave the strange earth.
The patakín of the strange earth: when the world disorients you — vertical leaves, fur-birds, long nights — do Ebó first, then continue. You will find inscribed on a beach the name of your own Ifá, left there by a previous diviner, pointing to the boat. The discipline of Iwori Otrupon is to trust that the strangeness has a boat at its edge, and the awo of your sign has already been there to mark the way.
Note: In this path, it is clear that one Awo must help another that needs help and to help each other. It is also an Ifá of emigration.
Ebbó: Akukó to Eleguá at the door, adié meji to Orunmila, eyele to Yemayá (offered to the sea), itana meji, ekó, eku, eja, epó, agbado, opolopo owo. The consultando, if facing an emigration or a major life-transit, performs this ebó before the move.
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