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Oshe-Odi
"The right way and the wrong way"
was cast for "I'm too precious, I don't want to"
on the day that she ignored all good advice,
squandered her husbands money and her own,
paid no attention to Ifa nor Orisha, and took
her own road that, unfortunately,
led nowhere. Ifa said: "Oh, but this own road
is not your own road at all!" Listen to Ifa!
Ifa says that "I'm too precious, I don't want to"
simply means that you're too lazy to do
those things that are part of your best destiny.
Ifa says that this Odu speaks of
a sore lack of self-discipline. And Ifa says
that you have so many options, so many possibilities,
so many qualities! In short: make sacrifice
for realizing your best destiny.
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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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