Ogbe Irosun (Ogbe Roso · Ogbè Ìrosùn)

Ebbó: A ram to Shangó, plus the remaining ingredients, and abundant money.

Note: Through this ifá is born the eye of providence, which watches over all of us from heaven and which no one can see. Because of this, Oduduwa is received. Also through this ifá, San Lázaro is received.

Ifá ni kaferefún Shangó, adifafún Oduduwa y Olofin.

Patakín: On this road, Shangó once asked his son for a ram. The son ran out at once to find one at any price, so as to satisfy his father's request, and in the end he gave it to him. But Shangó kept asking the boy for the ram again and again, and because of this the son decided to go to Orunmila's house so that Orunmila could guide him. When Orunmila examined him, this ifá came up, and it said that although the son had indeed paid the ram, he had not set aside its head --- and because all blood looks the same, Shangó had no way of knowing whether he had truly been given the ram or some other animal. When Shangó and the rest of the saints saw the things being done on earth, they asked that the feathers and the head be set aside for them, so that in this way they could know what was truly being eaten, and what was truly being given to each saint. This is why the eye of providence is born here --- the eye that watches all of us from heaven, and toward which no one can see. Also because of this matter of the blood, one receives San Lázaro through this ifá, and because of the eye of providence one must receive Oduduwa.

Note: In this ifá there are problems with the person's blood, and at the same time there is confusion in determining what type of illness they have.

Patakín: This was a one-eyed awo. One day this ifá came up as his own sign, and he called together all the awoses, who told him he had to make a rogación for his life with a live fresh fish and a one-eyed rooster. He made the rogación, then set out on the road to the sea, where he was swallowed by a whale. His son, not finding him in his usual place, went out to sea himself and set traps. Three days later, the son consulted and this same sign came up --- his father's own sign. He sent for the awoses, who marked the same rogación as the father's, but the one-eyed rooster could not be found. So he went to the shore, saw a fisherman selling a whale, and bought it. When he brought it home and performed the rogación, and opened the whale, he cried out: "My father is inside!" He then sent the young men who were in the room to leave, so that they would not see; but when his father came out, they told him that his son now stood in his place, and he said: "Then I will stay by his side to watch over him."

Note: An olorisha or babalawo comes to provoke the father; give some of the ebbó to Oshún and to Oggún.