11. How Erindinlogun Came To Sobosigi.docx

14th January 2015

The Odu that speak about how Erindinlogum came into existence is Oyeku Ogunda. Though other Odu mentioned it but we shall focus on is Oyeku Ogunda. This is the story of how erindinlogun cowries reading begin: Igbonmo ko se kam aya kekeke Lodifa fun orunmila nigbati Aboseere ni mogun Aboyaya ni mogba Abobatanla batarisa nigba aadota. Ofikan se imuse, Finkinfikin awo Osanyin orun Korea Je ki orunmila ri nkan se mo Won ni ki orunmila rubo ki iponju 're le did ero, Orunmila rubo , oko, ad a, ati obuko. Araye e wa wo orunmila ti nro oko ati ada ta lati jeun Translation You can't beat your chest with one little finger, is the one that divine for Orunmila on the day aboseere ni mogun, Aboyaya ni mogbon, abobatala, batarisa nigba aadota ( 50) and ofinkinfikin the awo of osanyin orun, they block orunmila blessing and prosperity. Orunmila was ask to perform sacrifice so that poverty will not kill him.

Orunmila sacrifices hoe, cutlass, and one he-goat and he started smithing hoe and cutlass and sell to people. There are plenty Awo in Ile Ife in those days. Some of them are very wicked, some learned awo, some fake awo, some half-baked awo. All these awo have different method of attracting clients to themselves and they stop people from going to Orunmila place for reading and sacrifice. Orunmila become poor because of this and there is no food to eat. Orunmila consulted Ifa and Oyeku Ogunda came out, He was asked to make sacrifice and he performed the sacrifice. Orunmila established an iron Smith work, by producing local hoe and cutlass. Orunmila’s wife is the one that was helping him to sell in the market. Whenever she sell a hoe or cutlass at 50 and she will report to Orunmila with 20. One day, Orunmila wife sold a cutlass to a farmer on credit. The farmer paid her 20 and promised to balance before next market. The farmer brought the money home for Oorunmila’s wife before the next market. He met Orunmila alone at home. He told Orunmila that his wife sold a cutlass for him at 50 and he only paid 20 and he is here to balance 30 to complete the money. At this junction, Orunmila now realised that his wife has been cheating on him. He was angry and when his wife returned home, Orunmila draw cutlass and removed his wife’s head. Orunmila ran away after committing murder and hid himself inside a tree called oriri. Sobosigi (Osun) of Ile Ife went to forest in order to fetch wood, and came to oriri tree. She draw her cutlass to cut oriri tree and Orunmila shouted: “Please, don't cut the tree, I’m inside.” The woman Sobosigi stopped and wanted to make noise that, here is Orunmila the murderer. Orunmila begged her to help and they form an awo that she should not tell anybody. Orunmila gave her 16 cowries. She took the cowries and went to Olofin palace and divine for Olofin that Orunmila will be found if they can perform sacrifice. However, during Orunmila’s absence, Olofin there was problem in the town. There was already problem in Ile Ife which needed Orunmila’s attention. Sobosigi divined with the 16 cowries and brought back Orunmila to Olofin palace.

Sobosigi is the name of Osun. Osun praise Erindinlogun, Erindinlogun praise Orunmila and Orunmila praise ifá and Olodumare. That is the story of how Erindinlogun came to Sobosigi (Osun). Osun was celebrating festival, according to this odu, Soponaa, Sango, and Sala are children of Osun. They came to celebrate with their mother and Osun washed Erindinlogun and gave them as gift to do reading and to call on her anytime According to this odu, it was written so that Sango, Soponaa, Sala are children of Osun. Note, we have plenty Sango, Soponaa, Esu, Ogun after the original Orisa. This is from the odu Oyeku Ogunda as written by first writer of Ifá book Lijadu