Ogbe Otrupon (Ogbe Otrupon · Ogbe Otrupon)

Before leaving heaven, Shango consulted his guardian angel. He was advised to make sacrifice with pumpkins. He did. He was born into a house on earth that had no children, because every child born there went away when they grew up.

The parents did not know it was Shango who drove the children out. He had a tradition of striking the palm tree in front of the house every year without fail, because the original owner --- who had sold the house to the current family --- had once offended Shango. That was the cause of the annual attack, which terrified the children as they grew.

When Ogbe Tumokpon grew up, he advised his father to make sacrifice. He prescribed pumpkin seeds and a vessel of palm oil. He planted the seeds around the house and sprinkled the oil around it. The pumpkin germinated and made a canopy of foliage.

On the next anniversary, Shango arrived to attack and saw pumpkin. He walked around the house humming and went home without throwing a missile.

The next day Shango transfigured into a man and visited. The owner, seeing his red clothing, took him for a priest of Shango and welcomed him with palm oil, kola, and bitter kola. The visitor broke kola, prayed for him, and asked when the house had been built. The owner explained he had bought it. Shango asked where the previous owner was; the owner said he had last seen him in the marketplace. Shango insisted on going there: We are intimate friends.

The next market day they went together. When the original offender saw the new owner walking with Shango, he fled in terror. Shango sent the owner home --- I have seen my friend; I will follow him. He avoided the man for a long time.

Eventually the offender returned to the market, lulled by apparent peace. Shango struck him with lightning while Oya illuminated the cloud. The man died with the same pot of palm oil from the new owner's house left on his chest.

The next day Shango visited the new owner as a man and identified himself as the one who had fought. He thanked him for leading him to his enemy. I will not fight any house where I see pumpkin. When you hear my war-cry, pour palm oil on the ground; I will know the house is my friend's. He promised a special favor from God.

Soon the wife became pregnant and bore a child in a sac. Shango appeared as a man, prescribed palm oil, a rooster, and a knife, cut the sac, and the boy emerged with a thunderstone in his right hand and an axe in his left. They bathed him in palm oil. Shango told them to keep the instruments and the rooster.

Seven days later Shango returned, took the rooster, sacrificed it on the stone and axe, and named the boy Oke --- disciple of Shango on earth. Three months later he sacrificed a ram on the axe and stone over a mortar. That was the first shrine of Shango on earth. The boy became the first priest of Shango.

When this Odu manifests, the consultant must make sacrifice with pumpkin and palm oil to avoid bearing the burden of someone else's old offense, and to receive the favor that comes from Shango.

The wife of Ogbe Tumako went to the plaza, and the wives of Death, Sickness, and Tragedy were also there. The butcher, out of regard for Ogbe Tumako, served his wife first. The others were furious and went home complaining: Our husbands are useless; we cannot even buy meat first.

When Ogbe Tumako's wife came home, he was already at the divining table. The osode showed his sign. He asked her if she had brought meat; she gave it to him. He divided it into three parts and made ebbó: one at the door of the house, one at the corner, one in the bush.

The husbands set out to claim the meat. Death came first, found his portion at the door, and ate. Tragedy followed, found his at the corner, and ate. Sickness, having to cross the bush, found his portion there. None of them entered the house. Ogbe Tumako had freed himself from all three.