Owonrin Otura (Owonrin Otura · Owonrin Otura)

REZO: SHIKITI NEBO OLU ARU ADIFAFUN ORUNMILA TINSHA IBO ILE OLOKUN LODAFUN OBANLA.

EBBÓ: akuko, adie, abo, eure, eyele, añari, ota, 6 mandarrias (sledgehammers), the rest of the ingredients, opolopo owo.

DISTRIBUTION: The mandarrias are placed for Shangó; the abo is for Shangó or Yemayá; and the eran (meat) is shared out among those present.

PATAKÍN: There were two brothers who lived with their father. The elder was doing well but did not get along with the younger one, and always had him harassed and mistreated him badly. The father always helped the elder, and the mother always helped the younger one, defending him and sometimes hiding him to keep the elder from mistreating him. But a day came when the mother could do nothing more for the younger one, and she decided to take him to Orunmila's house.

Orunmila did an osode for him and saw this Ifá, marked ebbó for him, and told him that this ebbó had to be taken to the ile Olokun.

The younger one had to go with his mother to the other side of the sea, to live on a very small cay. And it happened that the sea went casting up sand and everything it held in its interior, and in that place a very large and beautiful island was formed.

It happened that those lands began to be populated by people from several nearby towns, and the inhabitants of his brother's town also went to live there. And it so happened that the younger brother, as the first resident, was made Oba of those lands.

Before long a great war broke out against the elder brother, and he had to flee. He went to take refuge in the land of his younger brother, since he had lost his people and had no strength left with which to fight. On arriving he went to see his iyare (mother) and told her his problem, and she said to him: "Go see your younger brother, to see whether he will admit you into his bosom, for we are very resentful toward you."

They went to see his brother and told him everything that had happened, and the younger brother said to him: "Do you not remember everything you made Mama and me suffer when we lived with you? You even tried to kill me." The elder brother knelt before the smaller one and asked his forgiveness, and he said: "Get up, you are forgiven," and offered him hospitality.

Then the younger brother went to see his people, told them what was happening, and told them to arm themselves to recover his brother's properties. They all armed at once and set out for the land of his brother with a great army in his defense. On arrival, the younger one declared war on the Oba who had dethroned his brother.

The war begins, and the younger brother with his army manages to defeat the Oba, who surrenders; and the younger brother tells him that as indemnity he must leave him his kingdom, in which he left his brother installed.

REZO: TANIWA LIBO OMI MIO NOTORI KINI NI TORI KINI OMINI OKUTELE OMONI EÑI ADIE.

EBBÓ: akuko, adie, eñi adie (a hen's egg), eyi ekute (mouse skin), asho arae, akara bibo, igui, oti, the rest of the ingredients, opolopo owo.

PATAKÍN: In this path there was an extremely poor man named Tetelono, who did not even have a wife. He fed himself on field mice, and his cape and trousers were made of mouse skin. One day when he left his wretched hut to hunt mice in the bush, he found an eñi adie (hen's egg) and said to himself: "I will eat this eñi adie when the wind blows from that side," and he kept it in his house. The man continued his search for mice, and when he returned to his hut he put the egg in a safe place, to eat it when the wind blew from the direction he had indicated.

The next day he went out to the bush as usual to hunt mice, and on returning in the afternoon he found a piece of freshly baked bread and freshly prepared oti. This happened to him for several days in a row, and he asked himself, very astonished: "If I have no wife, who, who is not my wife, is going to bake the bread and prepare the oti?"

One day a beautiful woman came out of the egg and said to Tetelono: "Even when you are drunk on oti, never call me omo of eñi adie (child of a hen's egg)." From that instant that young woman was Tetelono's wife.

One day the young woman asked him: "Tetelono, would you like to have people under your command?" He answered yes. The woman went out of the hut and began to beat with a stick the place where the ashes were thrown. The next day when Tetelono woke up, he heard a great clamor, as of many people. He had been transformed into a chief; he was dressed in jackal skins; the hut had been transformed into a great mansion; and around it was a great village full of people who came to him most attentively, and from all sides they shouted to him: "Hail, chief! Hail, chief!" Tetelono was the chief of that immense village.

Tetelono began to grow proud. He now despised his old clothes made of mouse skin and ordered them burned, since he dressed only in clothes made of jackal skins; at night he covered himself with good blankets.

One day Tetelono got so drunk on oti that he could not move, and he began to shout at his wife: "Daughter of a hen's egg! Yes, I call you that, you are a daughter of a hen's egg!" That night Tetelono lay down well wrapped in the jackal skins and fell fast asleep. At midnight he woke because he felt cold, and, feeling around, he realized that he was lying on the hard ground, covered with his old mouse pelts, which barely reached his knees. He noticed that his wife was not at his side and that she was inside his old hut. He got up very frightened and found that the village no longer existed. Then he remembered everything and, saddened, exclaimed: "Alas, what is to become of me! Why did I shout at her 'daughter of a hen's egg'? Why did I not know how to keep that secret?"

Tetelono became once again a totally poor man, without wife and without children. He grew old and died, having as his only food the flesh of mice and as clothing the dry hides of those animals.

NOTE: It is the woman who provides the luck you enjoy. Do not mistreat her or offend her, for the day she abandons you, you will never again raise your head. You will die poor, hungry, without clothes, and filthy. Ifá of amarre (binding). A pact was made with an Eggun; he received it and carried it to its destination. Here the Quimbisa was born. Ifá of tarros [literally "jars"; in Cuban Spanish tarros also means the horns of a cuckold, i.e. infidelity] and of adulteries, since through mistreating his wife the man is lost. The person is shameless (descarada) and will continue to be so.