Okanran Ose (Okana She · Okanran Ose)

Rezo: Okirike Iyape Agbon Tu Oloko Enshike Agaragoro Okoriko Efufe Omo Lofe, Adifafún Okó, Adifafún Eyá Areni, Lodafún Oroyorí Ajé Shalugá Oshún Miwa Ilé Bombo.

Suyere: "Afere Afere Oni Sefun Orúnmila Komamu Obinima."

Ebbó: a piece of virgin wax, adié meyi dun dun, eku, eyá, oní añaki odo, a pearl, agborán ota, bogbó tenuyén, opolopó owó.

Nota: Here speaks the deep love of man for woman. It is the virtue of the amarre of the male member.

Here is born the vaginal spasm. It is love's supreme sacrifice.

Here is born why the salmon lives in the sea yet goes to spawn in the river, and why the drone impregnates the queen of the hive and dies, in that his reproductive organ detaches in the sexual act and comes away with his entrails.

This is an Ifá of madness.

Patakín:

Eyá Areni (the Salmon) and Agbón Okó (the Drone of the Hive) were intimate friends, and both of them, besides, were Don Juans by profession. The first was desperate with love for Oroyorí Oshún, who lived enclosed within a mother-of-pearl shell at the mouth of the river; the second, for Agbón Ayabá, who was the queen of the hive.

Oroyorí Oshún needed and asked, in order to give her love, that sandbanks be brought to her realm, which was Odó (the river), where she might take her ease at her leisure; and the second, Agbón Ayabá, asked for a crown of wax.

Both suitors, desperate, went to see Orúnmila, who, upon seeing them, marked this Ifá — Okana She (a man enslaves himself for love) — and told them they had to make ebbó, for if they did not, they would find themselves enslaved by love, and love would sacrifice them for the sake of survival.

They agreed together to make the ebbó, so that they might win the affection of their respective women.

Eyá Areni made the ebbó, but Agbón Okó, being so undisciplined and lazy, did not complete his.

Each one of them presented himself before his beloved, bringing his gifts, and Oroyorí, seeing that Eyá Areni brought her what she desired to have, fell in love with him and let herself be led to the reaches of the river, where, upon the sandbanks that Eyá Areni had brought, she gave herself to the pleasures of love and remained to live there.

Eyá Areni was left having to go every year to make love in the depths of the river, where his young were born.

The sacrifice of love: for Eyá Areni, though triumphant in his purpose, became enslaved to Oroyorí Oshún; and Agbón Okó perished, sacrificed for love.

Nota: To obtain for the Awó the power of persuasion over women, an Ozaín is prepared and placed beside Oshún. To prepare it, take a piece of virgin wax, which is fed together with Orúnmila to the adié meyi dun dun; afterward it is set to boil while the suyere of this Ifá is sung.

When some bees appear — as they always do when this work is made — three of those bees are taken. Into the madre perla go: eku, eyá, epó, orí, efún, kola, oshún ológbo, obí motiwao, lerí de eyá, arará okún, areni (salmon), otí, and both lerí of Orúnmila's adié — and it is sealed with the wax of the honeycomb that was boiled. This eats together with Oshún and lives at her side.

(This same working is stated in the source under Obras de Okana She, above; it recurs here, inline, inside this patakín's own closing note — translated in both positions rather than merged, per the no-silent-merging discipline.)

In this Ifá the secreto of Oshún Miwa Ilé Koseha Ilé Bombo is prepared, which is the wooden image of the Caridad del Cobre that eats with Oshún and Orúnmila.

Here was born the sand of the river.

Ebbó: akukó, adié metá, a small basket, ashó ará, bogbó tenuyén, atitán ilé, earth from the workplace, obí, epó, ashó timbelará, eku, eyá, owó.

Patakín:

On this road there was a man who devoted himself to making baskets, and these had no market, because no one knew what use could be made of them.

Because of this, people saw them but did not buy them, and so the maker found himself in very bad circumstances; and seeing that each day was worse than the last, he went to Orúnmila's house.

Orúnmila registered him and saw this Ifá for him, and told him that his business was going badly, and that because of this he had to make ebbó, so that the world would come to know him and his luck would change.

Then the man, desperate as he was, made the ebbó, and when Orúnmila finished, he told Elegbá to go with him to help him take up his business.

When they arrived at the house, Elegbá put out many baskets on the ground, and when people came with their errands, he would tell them: "Put your things in here, and you will see how well they carry." And so he went setting the baskets into use, until everyone came to know them, and the day arrived when the man found himself rich — thanks to Orúnmila and Elegbá.

Nota: One must receive Elegbá.