OGBE OTURA

In a world where gender equality seems impossible and men always feeling superior, the stand of ifa as we’ve seen in many odu shows that as long as men still think they are superior or could sideline and do without women, the world will not know peace.

Here’s another verse in Ogbe Otura that explains how important it’s to recognize and realize the importance of women in all that we do.

Men believe strength and power is all that it takes to rule but a woman just need her silence, energy and inner strength to deal with men.

Here from this verse:

Akoto ni boro

Akoto ni boro

Akoto ile abenu boro-boro

Agbalagba senu kankanjan wiran

Koo ma baa se’tan kankanjan gbejo

Dia fun Ogun

Dia fun Sango 

Dia fun Orunmila

Dia fun Osun

Won ngbogun lo ilu atokeere-dokeere

Ebo ni won ni ki won waa se

Won gb’ebo, won ru’bo

Nje o too ki, nbi o o too ki Moro-l’Efon.

Translation:

Akoto ni boro

Akoto ni boro

Akoto ile abenu boro-boro

Let the elder speak out against misdeeds now

For him not to find himself facing litigation in the future

These were Ifá’s messages for Ogun 

And for Sango

And for Orunmila

So also for Osun ewuji 

When they were going to embark on a military expedition To the land across hill upon hill

They were advised to offer ẹbọ.

They all left their homes full of hope and determination to succeed where they were going. They crossed several hills and mountains. They finally arrived to their destination after several lunar months. When they settled down, they decided that Orunmila, Sango and Ogun would go out to confront all their enemies and would return to report their progress and expeditions to Osun. The four of them then decided what the next line of action would be. It turned out to be a perfect arrangement. They made tremendous progress and they were all satisfied with the progress they had made so far.

One day however, Orunmila, Sango and Ogun felt that it was absolutely unnecessary for them to be reporting all their activities to Osun after all, she did not go with them to the battle field. If she wants to know what is going on, she will need to follow them to the battle field front.

Why should they give such an ordinary woman leverage over and above them, they thought to themselves. It must stop, they concluded. They vowed never to tell her anything anymore and that was exactly what they did. They expected Osun to fight or at least protest but she simply remained quiet. She never asked them to explain why they had chosen not to report back to her anymore.

The next time they went to the battle field, they were roundly beaten. They managed however to escape with their lives. From that moment on, nothing worked for the three of them any longer. The more effort they put into a project, the more they would fail. When their failures became a serious embarrassment for them, they decided to go for Ifá consultation in the home of the group of Awo stated above. When Ifá was cast for them, Ogbe Alara was revealed.

The Awo told them that they had come for Ifá consultation because they were recording failure upon failure in their undertakings. The Awo said that they would continue to record failures unless they changed their attitude. They were told that they needed to bring the only female among them into the picture of all their plans, undertakings, and actions. This is when fortune would smile at them again. They were advised to offer ẹbọ as stated above.

The three of them deliberated over this matter and truly realized they had been recording success when the four of them had been working together as a united entity and that they then began to fail when they chose not to put Osun into the picture of all what they were doing. Consequently upon this, they complied with the advice of the Awo and offered the ẹbọ as prescribed.

The back of the he-goat was then well cooked and presented to Osun with a full apology. Osun accepted their apology and everything returned to normal.

As soon as this was done, all their military expeditions came out successful. They conquered and reduced all their oppositions to nothing. All conspiracies were levelled to the ground and they returned home triumphantly.

Akoto ni boro

Akoto ni boro

Akoto ile abenu boro-boro

Let the elder speak out against misdeeds now

For him not to find himself facing litigation in the future

These were Ifá’s messages for Ogun

And for Sango

And for Orunmila 

So also for Osun Ewuji

When they were going to embark on a military expedition To the land across hill upon hill

They were advised to offer ẹbọ

They complied

Before long, not too far

All Ire of life came trooping in

Are you worthy of being greeted or are you not? The title holder of Moro in Efon land

Yeye you are worthy of being greeted Omukemuke

She who sucks like the flea

Eporogun is worthy of being greeted.

By Owomide