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Irete-Oshe
F'orilaku, F'orilaku, F'orilaku.
Agbonboniwonran, Agbonboniwonran, Agbonboniwonran.
Ekun Amomonibuu, Ekun Amomonibuu, Ekun Amomonibuu.
He who falls into the esu-thorns,
will be stung by the esu-thorns.
He who bumps into Eshu,
Eshu will hurt him.
This person needs Eshu-Odara
in the form of a piece of laterite.
Ewe: take a laterite stone, three new
knives made by the local blacksmith, bark
of the ipara tree, pieces of bark or small pieces
of several thorny plants and trees, pieces of
several thorny creepers. Put it all into a pot.
Grind the ipara-bark into a powder, place it
in front of the pot, write Irete-Oshe in it,
and chant the above incantation. Place the powder
in the pot, to which water has been added.
Cover and seal the pot with mud or wet ashes.
Open after seven days, and use to bathe.
This should not, repeat NOT, be imbibed.
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Contributor's Note
An Ifa divination text from Jaap Verduijn's Odu Ifa Corpus. Ifa as a divination method is found in many countries in West Africa. However, the Yoruba peoples have perfected it. The presented texts are translations, rewritings and interpretations of original Yoruba divination verses, in which the traditional "poetry-like" cadence and rhythm has been preserved and/or recreated as far as the English language allows. The texts are part of my "working corpus" as an Ifa diviner.
More about Ifa on http://www.qondio.com/mama.pl?a=intelshow&i=17751
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