Ifa Will Deliver Justice

Awodiran Agboola writes: 
Ekuro oju ona o fara jo ikin sugbon ko le ri eje mu bi ikin 
The palm nuts on the road path may look like sacred palm nuts but will never taste animal blood like the sacred palm nuts.
- Ogbe Kanran

This has led to the popular talking drum the Yorubas will remember;-
Ifa yoo paluwa re je
Eni ti nfoju ekuro w'Orunmila.
Ifa yoo paluware je

Translation

Ifa will kill them
whoever equates Orunmila with ordinary palm nuts
Ifa will deliver justice.
Our Ikin (Ifa) is REAL

There is a disturbing and misleading trend emerging within the ranks of Orisa Lifestyle. The tradition is being presented exclusively as an individual practice that one can attain merely through payment of money and undergoing a ceremony. This is a falsehood of epic proportions. Awo Orunmila are born, not made and certainly not bought. Orisa Lifestyle is tied to bloodlines, family lineages and Ancestral Promise. But even for those adopt Orisa Lifestyle and become students of Ifa, Orunmila asks his devotees to act in his likeness. Of this, the Holy Odu OturaIwori says the following: 

The okra with extended leaves 
It germinates in twenties
Garden eggs with drooping leaves
It germinates in thirties
Oluyaya has its own leaves if it is wilting
It would germinate in fifties
Cast Ifa for Orunmila 
He would send Mobolaje, his son, on an errand to the city of Isan
Orunmila is the one who sent his son to the city of Isan
He arrived at the city of Isan
All the inhabitants of the city of Isan started abusing Orunmila
They were abusing Ifa in the city of Isan 
Mobolaje was on the other side of town casting Ifa
He knew nothing
Meanwhile, Orunmila saw everything from home
he became agry and started to war against them 
'You, Mobolaje!'
'Were you not there?'
'I didn't have a hand in it,' Mobolaje said
'I have no hand in it'
Orunmila said, The okra with extended leaves 
It germinates in twenties
Garden eggs with drooping leaves
It germinates in thirties
Oluyaya has its own leaves if it is wilting
It would germinate in fifties
Cast Ifa for Orunmila 
He would send Mobolaje, his son, on an errand to the city of Isan
Mobolaje, it was you and them
When they were abusing me in the city of Isan
It was you and them
I was not involved, Mobolaje pleaded
I was not amongst them 
Then they were abusing you in Isan
I was not there
I would have used the iroke in my hand to kill twenty of them
I was not there
I was not there
When they were abusing you in the city of Isan
I was not there
Had I been there
I wold have used the irukere in my hand to kill thirty of them 
I was not there
I was not there
When they were abusing you in the city of Isan
I was not there
Had I been there 
I would have combined iroke and irukere in my hands and killed fifty of them 
I was not there
I was not there
When they were abusing you in the city of Isan
I was not there
- Holy Odu OturaIwori

Aboru aboye abosise. 

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