Odi-Ogbe

"Baba-akikibiti, Baba-akikibiti"
was cast for Orunmila, on the day
that Death and Disease both
wanted to visit him.
They told him to make two
Sigidi Amonu, each
with 200 eeru, for which we may
substitute cloves, stuck into them:
give them wooden machetes
to hold in their hands, and put
pieces of kolanut into their mouths;
then kill a he-goat and pour the blood over them.
Put one of them outside the front door,
put the other outside the back door of the house.
Orunmila made the sacrifice, he acted
according to the instructions of Ifa.
Death came to the front door and greeted Sigidi:
"Baba-akibiti, Baba-akibiti, please
step aside and let the awo through".
Sigidi spoke not, and Death turned away.
He went to the back door, and the event
repeated itself. Death failed, and went away.
This is what Orunmila did to prevent
Death and Disease from entering his house.
Ifa says there is a person who is
wide open to death and illness, because
he does not take the right precautions;
we shall be especially alert towards
sexual diseases. And Ifa says there is
great unrest in our community: we will put
our problems before Eshu, whom we would
prefer to have on our side,
rather than as our enemy.
And Ifa says that maybe,
quite likely, this person should have
more than one Eshu.
Ebo: one goat.