Odu Ofun

Ofun hails from Ila Orangun near Ila Magbon. His ancestry is unknown. Ofun enjoys great prestige, he should in fact have been the foremost Odu. He is particularly powerful in medicine and spells. Ofun has a taboo against eating apon soup and drinking sekete wine. He cannot play the ayo game, and he must never adopt a child.

 

Ofun Meji "When one leg goes forth the other must follow. If the father leads, the child follows behind. If, however, the child walks in front, then it will be honored as greater than once was its father." O...

Ofun-Ika "Ofun understands Ika, Ika understands Ofun; young palm leaves make the body of Ogun Tiele" and "It is the mosquito who makes the path for the rain" cast for Black Ogun, on the day that he was warr...

Ofun-Irete Ofun was cast for Water, Irete was cast for Water, who got the message that he should sacrifice so that nobody would ever be able to conspire against him, or to boycot him. The offering was salt, p...

Ofun-Irosun Ofun'Rosu cast for Ewa-olu. Ewa-olu was told that he would be happy and lucky during his whole life. He was invited to offer a bottle of honey and 14,000 cowries. Ewa-olu listened and made the adimu.

Ofun-Iwori "Honor will reach me" was cast for Money, on the day that Money was worried because people did not respect her. Money was advised to sacrifice, so that the people of the world would always, constan...

Ofun-Obara Ofun was cast for Olu-Ota, Obara was cast for Olu-Ota, who was told that many people would approach him, and that he would become very rich. They instructed him to sacrifice against evil-doers. The...

Ofun-Odi "Ofun put a limit to goodness; Waragba, act fast in order for Ofun not to kill us!" was the one who cast for Olori-Oga, on the day that he limited his goodness to his own family only. The Awo's sai...

Ofun-Ogbe "The Rere-tree, tree of the forest. Rere-tree, the tree of the fields, Peregun shivers", the awo of Esumeri, was the one who cast for Ofun, on the day That Ofun was going to beat Ogbe to death. Wel...

Ofun-Ogunda [As etutu the awo licks some red palm oil from his finger] "Ofun tastes palm oil", the awo of the king or Ara, cast for the king of Ara, on the day that they told him that in that same year the ble...

Ofun-Okanran "Ofun'Konran we are looking for the house of the very well-bathed person Oloseawefin, so that Ofun's beauty does not disappear" was cast for Corn, on the day that Corn was suffering. Ebo: 1 white p...

Ofun-Osa "Ofun'Sa has efun, Ofun'Sa has irosun, Ofun'Sa has waving palm leaves" cast for Sigo-eleju. The ebo was made. He received the blessing of money and children. The ebo is two pigeons and money. He re...

Ofun-Oshe Ofun was cast, Oshe was cast, for "He who is not destined to posses anything" from the town of Oso. They told him to sacrifice so that his first possession would not be the thing that he would lose...

Ofun-Otura Areremare, Areremare cast for Olowu, on the day that he did not want to live any longer on the farm. They said that everything was in order with Olowu, but that he would have to make sacrifice, in ...

Ofun-Oturupon Ofun was cast for Obatala Oseere-Igbo, Oturupon was cast for Obatala Oseere-Igbo, who was told that she would have many children. Considering that Obatala Oseere-Igbo was a man, this announcement k...

Ofun-Owonrin "Ofun gives it to us to pamper it, gives it to us to take good care of it" was cast for Odudua, who will do good everywhere in the world. He said that doing good all over the world is the best proo...

Ofun-Oyeku We call this Odu also Ofun-Tena, which means Odu does press the Road, impresses and imprints, which means in turn that Ofun casts, Ofun makes divination. "Ofun, decked out with quite impressive clo...