Itadogun October 5, 2025| Otura Òsá

Alaafia Everyone - Here is the summary of the messages received for this Itadogun. This is the Odu that is for the entire Egbe.

I will be doing the divination for Isan on Monday, October 13 at 11:30am EST. For those who would like to be present to hear the word of Ifa for the Collective you are welcome to join us live on zoom. Veneration will still be happening that morning.

Aboru aboye abosise Irentegbe Temple and aborisha family. Àlàáfíà, greetings to you all on the day of our Itadogun. Today we are blessed with the appearance of the holy Odú Òtúrá Òsá. It comes to us bringing iré.

Verse 1:

The Àwọ cast ifá for Ojugbé when he wanted to cultivate a farm by the roadside. He consulted ifá to know if his farm would be profitable. He was advised to offer ẹbo. When he made the sacrifices, He was advised to always be helpful to passers by. Ojugbé complied. Whenever the servants of Oriṣa nla would pass the roadside Farm, Ojugbé would offer them water and sometimes even yams to eat. Ojugbé was a neighbor and friend to the tortoise who would often laugh at him for giving away free food.

Later, the attendants of Òrìṣà nla told their benefactor of the generosity that they had been shown. Òrìṣà nla wanted to send a blessing to Ojugbé. He called for his servant with a hunchback. He opened his hunch and filled it with valuables and told him that he should give it to the one who gives them food. When the servants reached the roadside farm, as usual, Ojugbé offered them food and water. After they were done eating, the hunchback asked for a knife or an ax. Ojugbé Gave him both from his sacrificial materials. The hunchback then told him to use the knife to open his hunch. Ojugbé refused, saying that he could not commit murder. The hunchback then opened his hunch a small way and money began to flow from it. Ojugbé then helped him to open it the rest of the way and retrieved the mass of wealth had been bestowed upon him from Òrìṣà nla.

The tortoise later asked him how he had gotten his money and Ojugbé simply replied that it was the will of God and that whatever he had was the tortoises as well.

Despite his generosity, the tortoise was still not satisfied. He continued to pester Ojugbé until he shared the source of his wealth.

The next day, the tortoise attacked the hunchback and demanded that he open his hunch and give him the valuables inside. When the hunchback told him that there was nothing inside, the tortoise took an ax and began to cut away at the hunchback, eventually killing him. When saw what he had done, he drug the body onto Ojugbé's farm and immediately went to tell Oriṣa nla that Ojugbé had killed his servant. The order was given to arrest Ojugbé. When Ojugbé Heard what had happened and saw the corpse, he became sad. He said that he was too grateful to the hunchback to do evil to him. Òrìṣà nla then gave Ojugbé a horse, fine robes and money. He had concluded that Ojugbé was a good man and that he was not guilty of killing the hunchback. He knew that the report was the product of envy.

Ojugbé thus returned home singing that Òrìṣà nla had forgiven and rewarded him. When the tortoise heard the song, he went to the King and confessed that it was he who had killed hunchback. Òrìṣà nla then ordered that the tortoise be arrested and beheaded on the spot.

Verse 2:

The Babalawo of the hen cast divination for the hen when she was crying and because of children. He also cast divination for the eagle when she was also crying because of children. They both went together to consult ifá. "Can we both have children?" They asked. Orunmila Said that they both would have children. He advised them to offer 10 rats each and ten thousand cowries each.

Later, after returning to their homes. The hen had only found two rats. She kept the two. When the eagle returned from her escapade, she saw that she had captured eight. She began thinking "today is the deadline. The Àwọ said to bring the rats today but I was only able to get two." She saw that the eagle had returned with eight and had gone out once again to search for the other two. She was sure that she would find them and likely would return with even more than two. The hen then went to where the eagle kept her eight and took them to add to hers. She immediately went to Orúnmìlà to complete her ebo. Orúnmìlà accepted them and blessed the hen, telling her that she would have children in abundance. May they be more than 10 in number.

The eagle returned home to see that rats that she had gathered were gone. She had found the remaining two but only had those two now. Because it was the deadline, she took the two she had to Orúnmìlà. Orúnmìlà told her that the hen had come earlier and completed her sacrifice with all 10. She knew that the hen only had two at the start of the day and concluded that she must have stolen her eight. Orúnmìlà accepted the rats and blessed the eagle to have children. From then onward, she started to hatch two eggs. The hen however, would hatch 10 or even more, but, if she was not careful, out of the 10 hatched by the hen, hardly one would survive out of the batch. It is Èṣù that taught the eagle "Out of the children hatched by the hen, you should pick some as food for yourself, since she is the one that played foul." Now, once the eagle flies over an area where a hen is raising her chicks, she would start to crow. "I did not perform the sacrifice." The eagle would come in a fast glide and pick up one of the chicks. The two hatched by the eagle, the first day are the ones troubling the hen till date.

It was exactly as the Babalawo had said.

It is only the eagle that heard about the sacrifice and performed it with truth. The hen also performed the sacrifice but she did it deceitfully. The hen is the one that is not nice or humane. She confesses not to have performed the sacrifice.

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Why do you believe IFA gave us this message?

What do you hear Ifá saying to us?

Advisories:

• show kindness to those in need.

• Do not share the secrets of your success.

• Do not allow yourself to give in to your own envy.

• Do not attempt to steal someone else's blessing.

• Do not eat dried red meats.

• give credit where credit is due. Do not pass off someone else's work as your own.

Akose: n/a

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