Read These Stories from Ogbe-Okanran

If you learn from Ifá verses, it will be easy to understand that Èṣù is not in anyway close to the Satan in Christian religion.

Ogbe-Okanran is one of the 256 Chapters of Ifá. 

Note that the names of these chapters of Ifá are names of persons - they are either the disciples (Ọmọ Awo) of Ọ̀rúnmìlà or the disciples of the disciples of Ọ̀rúnmìlà.

Ogbe-Okanran is one of the 15 disciples of Eji-Ogbe who himself is one of the 16 disciples of Ọ̀rúnmìlà.

The story goes thus:

Verse 1. There was an Awo, his name is Ogbe-Okanran.

He traveled to a town called Ipoti where they have been having problems with marauding invaders who terrorize them at night.

He got to the city as a stranger and they appealed to him to help them. He asked them to make sacrifice with corn grains, mortar, some Ifá leaves, with a he goat for Èṣù. 

They heard, they made the sacrifice.

Ogbe-Okanran instructed them to put the mortar and the corn outside of the house. 

In the night, Èṣù started pounding the grains of corn in the mortar at the back yard. As the invading bandits were coming, they were hearing the sound of the mortar and pestle, they thought to themselves that the people of Ipoti are still awake and they returned with the aim attempt their robbery again the next day. 

The next day they came, the same thing happened, they were hearing the sound of the mortar hitting the pestle. The third day, the same thing. And they concluded that the people of Ipoti no longer sleep and they desisted from coming to plunder them at night.

This was how the stranger (Ajoji godogbo) helped them in conquering their troubles in Ipoti community.

Verse 2. 

When it was farming period, the Awo, Ogbè-Okanran requested of the people of Ipoti to give him a portion of land to farm. 

So they thought among themselves where to give the man to frustrate his farming activities. 

They gave him a water logged place to farm hoping that when the rain fails it will spoil his crops.

He went for divination as it was his custom, he was asked to make sacrifice. He did the sacrifice.

Èṣù blocked the rain conduits from heaven that year and it refused to rain. Only the plants of Ogbe-Okanran did well that year and the whole community had to buy food stuff from him.

The second year, he asked them again for a piece of farming land, this time, they gave him the high lands and took the low lands for themselves in the hope that there would be no rain and he would run short.

Again, he went for divination and he was asked to make sacrifice. He did as his Awos said. 

Èṣù pulled off the plug with which he stopped the rains the previous year and there was a downpour. All the plants in the lowlands perished and only Ogbe-Okanran was able to make a decent harvest.

At the third year, Ogbe-Okanran again went to request for a portion of land to farm and this time the community decided to give Ogbe-Okanran Ogun's land to farm. Though they knew it was prohibited for anyone to work in Ogun's farm. Their thought was that if he goes to the farm to work, Ogun will find him there and kill him.

Ogbe-Okanran went for divination as usual, he was asked to make sacrifice with roasted yam, palm wine and a dog. he was to go to the farm with the sacrificial items. 

On the day that Ogun was coming from heaven to earth, he was passing through his land and heard someone working on the farm, he got furious, drew his sword and was ready to wreck havoc when Ogbe-Okanran threw the dog towards Ogun, Ogun severed the head of the dog and drank its blood. Next, Ogbe-Okanran threw the roasted yam to Ogun in addition to the palm wine. He felt refreshed and then asked Ogbe-Okanran what he was doing on his land and if he didn't know that it was forbidden for anyone to come there to farm.

Ogbe-Okanran explained that he was a stranger and it was the community that gave him the land when he requested for a land to farm. Ògún got angry at what the community attempted to do to the man and told him to proceed into the town. Ogun went straight to the king's palace and beheaded the king. Afterwards he instructed them to make Ogbe-Okanran their king.

That was how Ifá made an Ajoji a King in the land of Ipoti.

Aboru Aboye Abosise!!!

Ìbà Oluwo Akomolafe Wande for giving me this Ifá.

By: Ayobami Ogedengbe 

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