The path where Oyá gave up eating male sheep! (Osa Kuleya)
“Ogodo Makulenkue”
Oyá was the owner of the marketplace and she was obsessively in love with Shangó, but she did not gain his favor. One day when she w...as in the forest, because she hunted, she saw a beautiful black buffalo had come into the woods. She went to shoot an arrow when she saw with surprise that the buffalo had taken off its skin. So instead she hid and saw that it was Shangó who was now carrying the buffalo skin. He hid the skin and left.
Oyá robbed the skin and took it to the market. The next day, when Shangó went to look for the skin he couldn’t find it. Desperate, he looked for the trail and it lead him to the market. There he reprimanded Oyá and she said to him that she wanted his romantic attention before returning the skin to him. Shangó accepted the offer with the condition that she not reveal his secret. She said yes, and thereafter, with this agreement, the two came to live together and give birth to the Ibeyi.
Oggún, who was the enemy of Shangó, through the intervention of Yemayá, the sister of Oyá, obtained the secret and told it to everyone: Shangó was the ogodó makulenkue, the young buffalo!
Upon seeing that his secret was public knowledge, Shangó took out his disguise, put it on, and came out of the woods in search of Oyá. Oyá had gone to the house of Orunmila for osode, and this Ifá came out, marking for her an ebó with akukó, eyelé meyi, otí, orí, efún, and $9.45.
Oyá made the ebó and left to put in her herd of abó, which she raised to eat.
So Shangó, who was looking for Oyá in the woods, instead found Ogún. Ogún knocked Shangó (as buffalo) over and cut off one of his horns, which he kept as a trophy (for this reason the ogué of Ogún consists of a single horn). But as the magic of the buffalo disguise still allowed it to grow horns, Shangó instantly had two to fight with. Shangó left Ogún and continued looking for Oyá until finally he found her with the abo and the Ibeyi, and he thrust himself forward to gore her.
Upon seeing agodó, Oyá now understood everything and thinking she was all but lost, got the Ibeyi away to save them. She then threw an abo at Shangó, who thrust forward to eat it, thereby staying forever with abo as his principal food.
Oyá had renounced abo in order to save herself and her children, the Ibeyi. “Whirlwind” took her children, the Ibeyi, and carried them home them to the house of Olokun.
(c) Copyright David H. Brown 2013
“Ogodo Makulenkue”
Oyá was the owner of the marketplace and she was obsessively in love with Shangó, but she did not gain his favor. One day when she w...as in the forest, because she hunted, she saw a beautiful black buffalo had come into the woods. She went to shoot an arrow when she saw with surprise that the buffalo had taken off its skin. So instead she hid and saw that it was Shangó who was now carrying the buffalo skin. He hid the skin and left.
Oyá robbed the skin and took it to the market. The next day, when Shangó went to look for the skin he couldn’t find it. Desperate, he looked for the trail and it lead him to the market. There he reprimanded Oyá and she said to him that she wanted his romantic attention before returning the skin to him. Shangó accepted the offer with the condition that she not reveal his secret. She said yes, and thereafter, with this agreement, the two came to live together and give birth to the Ibeyi.
Oggún, who was the enemy of Shangó, through the intervention of Yemayá, the sister of Oyá, obtained the secret and told it to everyone: Shangó was the ogodó makulenkue, the young buffalo!
Upon seeing that his secret was public knowledge, Shangó took out his disguise, put it on, and came out of the woods in search of Oyá. Oyá had gone to the house of Orunmila for osode, and this Ifá came out, marking for her an ebó with akukó, eyelé meyi, otí, orí, efún, and $9.45.
Oyá made the ebó and left to put in her herd of abó, which she raised to eat.
So Shangó, who was looking for Oyá in the woods, instead found Ogún. Ogún knocked Shangó (as buffalo) over and cut off one of his horns, which he kept as a trophy (for this reason the ogué of Ogún consists of a single horn). But as the magic of the buffalo disguise still allowed it to grow horns, Shangó instantly had two to fight with. Shangó left Ogún and continued looking for Oyá until finally he found her with the abo and the Ibeyi, and he thrust himself forward to gore her.
Upon seeing agodó, Oyá now understood everything and thinking she was all but lost, got the Ibeyi away to save them. She then threw an abo at Shangó, who thrust forward to eat it, thereby staying forever with abo as his principal food.
Oyá had renounced abo in order to save herself and her children, the Ibeyi. “Whirlwind” took her children, the Ibeyi, and carried them home them to the house of Olokun.
(c) Copyright David H. Brown 2013
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