TOPIC
Who is Oro among the deity ?
What is the meaning?
Oro comes as a solution to diverse problems human being are encountering in life,
by performing atonement or appeasement,
initiation all the packed together are called Oro
Oro was seen in diverse ways
1_As a diety
2_As a duty, responsibility and initiation.
3_As ancestral father of the yoruba ancient town called Iseyin as analyzed by Ifa
Let first discuss Oro as a deity
Oro is called ITA as a deity because of the duties he perform on earth
His a strong and zealous being who is very active in all his doings through this activities in sacrifice offering to all other deity or cleansing of the land or atonement, he knows all this before he descended from heaven because of all this activities that he can do he was nickname ORO.
He was among the great deity that first descended to the earth.
Because of all the great power and zeal that Olodumare the Supreme being bestow on Oro.
As we all know that Olodumare is the creator of earth and he gave Obatala the power to redefine or repair all what he Olodumare has created and wanted to be destroyed.
But because of being a hardworking being Olodumare appointed him as an assistant or helper to Obatala.
Oro and Obatala move together in the middle of heaven and earth,
Olodumare later summoned him to follow Obatala down to the earth because of Oro handwork,
Oro was afraid because of this mission to earth he ran to Orunmila to consult him that he was on a mission with Obatala to the earth but he don't want to be full of himself on this mission,
The initiate that are with Orunmila are the one that help Orunmila to cast the divination concerning the mission of oro to the earth, and the divination speaks thus…
IFA VERSE REVISION
01) Owonrin lotun..
Oosa losi
called owonrin wosa
Owo omode ko to pepe
Ti agbalagba ko wo kengbe
Ise ti baba agba ika mo ko mon
Gbogbo La ni ohun ta jo nbe Rawa
Adifa fun olu a bu fun eta
Lojo ti won nti ikole orun bo wa sile aye
English...
Owonrin on the right and
Oosa on the left
The hand of the little one can't reach the roof while
The hand of the elderly one can't enter the gourd
The work that an evil elder knows is not clean
We all have what we assign for each other
Cast divination for Olu
And fetch for civet cat
On the day that they are coming from heaven to the earth.
The divination refers to Obatala as olu because his a leader (King of deities)
Ita who is Oro is the one that consulted divination but the outcome speaks about him and his master who is Obatala ,make sacrifice together also they are warned not to betray themselves after the warning the descended to the earth.
Obatala has a lot of work and assignments doing anywhere that the bond that knot earth is about to break messages will be sent to Obatala to propitiation and Oro will be sent there and given character calabash to perform sacrifices there and things turn back to normal, people will give oro gift for a job Well-done and he deliver it for his master Obatala and his own share will be given to him, Obatala and Oro so much love each other,Later People manipulate oro against his master Obatala that he is foolish how can he be deliver all the gift given to him for a job well-done to Obatala,
He listened to people advice and shared all the gift given to him into equal whenever he was sent out on a mission, but calabash of character was with oro always hang it on his neck, later got to a stage he did not deliver any gift item to Orunmila whenever his sent on a mission and gift were given to him by people, Obatala got to know that Oro is working but did not come to give him report of his mission neither gift that he received, for this reason Obatala went to Orunmila to consult divination to reveal what is happening to him and the divination speaks thus…
IFA VERSE REVISION
02) Owonrin woo osa
Osa wo Owonrin
Adifa fun orisa nla oseremogbo
Lojo ton wa ona abayo Lati gba igba iwa lowo Oro.
ENGLISH
Owonrin look at osa
Osa look at Owonrin
Cast the divination for orisanla oseremogbo
On the day he was seeking on how to collect back calabash of character from Oro ...
Obatala said I don't want a fight I and oro which way to follow peacefully for me to have the calabash of character back,Orunmila said he needs to offer sacrifice and make a great feast for all the dieties,he then give a date that the sacrifice And the feast will be make,he prepared all manners of food and drinks, as we all knows that Oro loves drinks, he dranks all manners of drink mix together and he later get drunk and slept off,
Esu saw him and told Obatala that Oro is drunk and fell asleep, Obatala went to him and removed the character calabash that he hanged on his neck,when oro woke up he did not see the calabash anymore and all the other dieties has gone back to their various home,he began to ask every diety if they help him to see the calabash and all the dieties understand what happened about the calabash,
Some of the dieties gathered together and said the knows where the calabash is and it will be given to him if only he can tell them the story behind the calabash of character but he can't,
Then oro speak thus
I drink and get drunk then lost the calabash of character and his followers reply him thus,,
Don't think about it,
And the told him the calabash is with Obatala
Oro was so ashamed of himself to the extent that he can't go back to Obatala anymore.
Before Obatala used to called Oro by a title he who that I can rely on or trust but it means I can trust or rely on you,
Oro went back to Orunmila and told him I have betrayed Obatala,
what is the way forward now,
Orunmila reminded him of the divination he casted for him some years back ...
03) OGBE IWORI
OGBE WEYINWO
Ogbe weyin bi aja re o ba pa ikun
Ogbe weyin bi aja re o ba pa ehoro
Bi aja ba pa ikun, bo ba pa ehoro eyin la wo
Okan na hin na hin
Adifa fun oro lojo ton sawo re igbo egba
Tin sawo rode igbehin
English
Ogbe look back maybe you dog will kill a mole
Ogbe look back if your dog will kill a rabbit
If it kill a mole or if it kill rabbit we look back
One in longevity.
STORY
It Cast a divination for oro on the day that his going on a trip to egbaland,
on the day his going to Igbehinland
And he ask Orunmila when he can move to between Egba and Igbehin,
either of the two will be fruitful and prosperous for him
Without much ado Oro was looking for a way out and he was told he will re do the sacrifice once again,
And these are the items required for the sacrifice
Fermented pounded yam,
Fermented yam flour,
Fermented pap,
he goat,
fowl,
ram,
the money that was require for the sacrifice in the ancient century’s is EGBERIN OKEE which is equivalent to 8000 and he provided everything, Orunmila did the sacrifice for him and assured him that wherever he goes he will be fruitful and prosperous,
he moved from Ile Ife to Egbaland and have lot of children due to the sacrifice that he offered,
also he went to Ode igbeyin he was prosperous and has a lot of children there too,
whatever that happens to him there he always appreciate and sang thus………..
HE STARTED REJOICING WITH SONG
YORUBA......
Mo gun Yan bubububu
Mo roka bubububu
Mo ro Eko bubububu
Response from his children...
Mo ba nbimo lewelewe
Mo bimo lewelewe
ENGLISH.......
I sacrifice Fermented pounded yam
I sacrifice Fermented yam flour
I sacrifice Fermented pap
Children response....
You gave birth in fold in fold
You gave birth in fold in fold....
STORY
After this event he left Obatala place as his assistant and stand on his own..
Remember as we first said that Oro is very hard working, but he was manipulated before he betrayed Obatala.
In Egba was he was prosperous ,fruitful and doing well , his the one that is doing propitiation for them and things was going well for them in Egba, then egba people said we must not allow Oro to leave us because as he was here things are going well with us, they are making merry and joyous in the town .
Where he move to in the town will always be singing for him..
SONG
The song goes thus....
An elder is saying I will
leave posterity on this earth 3x
When we die and we have children that inherited whatever we leave behind it won't be a painful things,
I sacrifice Fermented pounded yam....
I sacrifice Fermented yam flour .....
I sacrifice Fermented pap....
And I gave birth to children in manifold...
When we die and we have children that inherited what we left behind it won't be painful.......
The elder is saying I will leave posterity on this earth....
Thus goes the itinerary of ORO
VITAL ROLES THAT ORO PLAY AMONG THE GOD'S
As we have said earlier that his real name is ITA but he was nickname ORO
He was hardworking ,zealous and agile among the gods.
He do a lot of sacrifices and initiation through this he was giving the nickname ORO but his real name is ITA
When Oro decided to leave Oke itase in Ile Ife, he has someone he made father ONA (footpath) and OLUGAGA was ONA wife, she is also called PAKOKO.
Oro married and his wife was also called PAKOKO, he gave birth to Eleku, ORO has a slave that was called LAJORUN according to Ifa revision,
All four of them left on a journey together from Ile Ife.
they all have their special duty
ORO and PAKOKO are married from heaven and gave birth to ELUKU, and their slave LAJORUN was with them in heaven before they descended to the earth,
His slave Lajorun has different voice note whenever Oro is going his slave will be singing behind him also his son will be with him because they all go along together.
THEIR INDIVIDUAL LIKENESS
ITA that is called ORO like yam flour
PAKOKO… She like Pap and bean soup, ekuya vegetables
Because of his wife love for ekuya vegetables this what made ORO like eating the same vegetables.
ELUKU...He love pounded yam
LAJORUN...for any food he desires to eat he love eating it with jute soup EWEDU...
REASONS FOR WOMEN NOT TO SEE ORO
A lot of Ifa verses explain why women must not see Oro…
If we examine this odu ifa VERSE:
Owanrin wofun it read thus...
Okan gidigba ni fun pakoko lorun tin-tin
Adifa fun Oro lojo tin lo fe obo
ENGLISH....
A big things is what choked pakoko
Cast divination for Oro on the day he was going to marry a baboon...
STORY
There was a day Oro was making sacrifices in the forest and he off all his clothes, before he finish the sacrifice the baboon has gone away with his clothes, he said alass! What do i do because i can't go to town naked in a broad day light, he need to wait till night before he came back to town.
Because he was naked when coming to town in the night that is why they said all women should go indoor and not see the nakedness of Oro.
HIS DUTY IN EACH AND EVERY TOWN
As we know that his main duty is to do sacrifices.
Let take a look at this Ifa Odus
In Ifa Odus of Owonrin Aseyin that read thus...
Pakunde awo aseyin
adifa aseyinmokin
Omo ase tin mu mi Kikan
ENGLISH.....
close the door awo Aseyin
Cast the divination Aseyinmokin on the day he was drinking a sour water..
sour water that ifa is referring to is the water pour on a granddad corn before we turn it to pap.
ORO IN ISEYIN THE ANCIENT OF YORUBA
When he got to Iseyin as a babalawo the reigning king then is called Aseyin.
The king has a queen that was beloved among his queen, later an incident happened and the king hated her beloved queen, she was Isolated with no marital duty no food and so on,
This beloved queen began to hungry as we all know queen can be begging people for food because of her status, she later decided to began a firewood seller, she went to the forest in search for firewood, there was a day in the forest as she was breaking fire wood a gorilla appeared to her, she was afraid and the gorilla gave her a sign that he will have a sexual intercourse with her if not she will kill her, she had no option, he had intercourse with her, the gorilla enjoyed it and requested for second round if not he will kill her, an insight came to the woman, she told the gorilla I am a queen but in the kingdom of men when ask for second round of intercourse my husband usually performs a rite and he was happy and said let me know the rite, the woman broke open the wood with her axe and told the gorilla if my husband wanted second round he will deep his manhood into a wood like this for him to enjoy the second round of intercourse, the gorilla deep his manhood into the opening wood and the woman removed the axe and ran away,
The gorilla was shouted and eventually died
Before the incident the woman was in her ovulation period and she became pregnant as the result of the intercourse.
As we all know that the king did not have intercourse with her.
Few weeks later the woman became nobody can ask her and the king ask her that I did not have intercourse with you and you are pregnant how come but the secret was between her and the king,
Few months later the king passed away, which no-one know the secret about the baby.
The Child that was given birth to through the intercourse between the woman and the gorilla eventually was a boy, He was taking care off and when he grew up he was chosen to be the king, he was loved by everyone in town, he later married and wife was also given to him and he has up to seven wife but none gave birth. The king was sad.
They have tried all effort for the kings wife to give but all efforts are fruitless
This incident made them to hear about Oro and he was summoned by the king for help and he said he will cast divination for the king and the king will have children, Oro casted his divination and Owonrin Aseyin appeared as the odu
He told the king that he will offer sacrifice, also he buried a dead body that has not been buried before, nobody heard about it before to buried a dead body that has not been buried before,
All the elder ask for the meaning and they were told that someone that has died for a long time which haven’t been buried, the king did not understand and they ask if the king mother is alive and they said yes,
The king went to his mother for explanations ,and after much words the queen mother told the king the secret of the king birth, and they ask can you take us to the place and she took them to the forest where the incident happened, when they got there they only found skeleton of the gorilla by the broken wood,
And they told the queen mother nobody must hear about this secret.
How do we take this skeleton to town for burial,
The wood on which the gorilla died was carved flat and spider web was used to join it together.
They took the bone to town and clanging the carved wood and started saying what nobody has heard in town before,
then everybody started closing their doors in fear.
The song that was sang when they are entering town..
SONG IN YORUBA
Pakunde ooo Aseyin ngbe baba re boo ooo
ENGLISH....
Close the door Aseyin is bringing his father to town
When he was brought to town the women were summoned to be indoor for seven days for the king father initiation to be completed, After this sacrifices all the king wife became pregnant and gave birth.
ORO SHRINE
Is never in town only in the thick forest because the gorilla was brought to town from the forest, as we all know that what was called ORO is a propitiation or sacrifice that was done but ITA is his real name ,any forest assign for this purpose no woman must be there anymore.if a woman mistakenly seen oro she will die, they don't Farm because no tree must be cut in the forest, if a woman cut tree there that is her end.
Who are called ORO assistant
1 Head of oro society
Pakoko,
Esin
oro,
eluku,
lajorun.
How to worship ORO
As we all know that is a big deity,
We worship him in 3 ways
Every 5 days,
Every 17 days, also as a festival
To worship every 5 days because of orisha week.
Our ancestors established all the ifa of worshipping him.
If oro appears to someones, oro deity worshippers will be contact
Oro appears to one in 3 ways
1 either through ifa
2 either his meet on the way
3 through dream.
Oro festival is done for 8 days.
Owonrin aseyin and oworin wosa speaks a lot about ORO.
Oro is being praise this way
Ita loro nje egba ni won npe loro
Omo yin min yin min gbe kin
Omo ogogo rumo rumo
Omo Lani omo osunbijo
Omo Kokoro ti o Jia jelu
Kokoro ti jelu jare elu
Ni tripe iwon ba nigi oko Dara mon
Won jiyan jiyan ko dun mi o,nko beere wo
Won jo ka joka wo ko dun mi oo no beere wo
Sugbon oo aki Jefo ekuyo dun oro
Eniba Jefo ekuyo dun Ara iseyin omo ebedi monko
Eniba je ekuyo dun Ara iseyin owo ale ni won hun gbe won,
Omo ebedi moko won jio dola ki won to pa lu ware
Ewo nii..
TOPIC:ORO AND ITS DUTIES
ORO was seen in three diverse ways
1 ORO was seen as a deity
2 ORO was seen as a duty and responsibility performed by Orunmila
3 ORO was seen as ancestral father of the ancient town of Iseyin in yoruba land Nigeria as analyse by Ifa.
1.Oro that was seen as a deity was a sibling to masquerade and they descended together from heaven down to the earth .Masquerade has a regalia but Oro did not, for this reason masquerade is paraded during the day for the world to see and he perform wonders, sanctify and clean all evil occurrences from the land, heal the land ,bring peace ,joy ,happiness and prosperity to the world.While Oro has no regalia and due to this fact he moved out during the night to perform wonders, clean all evil occurrences and happenings in a land, heal the land, bring peace, joy, happiness, and prosperity to the land
2_Oro that was seen through Orunmila is the one that is used for appeasement and cleansing for his children and followers, also they will term that they are doing Ifa initiation.
3 The Oro of the Iseyin ancestral is being praise on the Odus of ifa verse
Owonrin
the priest of Aseyin
Consulted the oracle for Aseyin
The son's of Ase that drink water when it turn sour
The son's of Agbon that drink cold pap
The day that he uses his tear as a childbirth
And he was called to come and perform sacrifices
Aseyin was on the throne of his father and he didn't give birth to any children from the wife he married and the one he inherited, and he called and the Babalawos to consult the oracle for him and the oracle said he should go and offer to his father and he do offer sacrifice to his biological that he know and no result, he consulted the oracle again and he was told to make another to his father and he told the babalawo that he has offered sacrifice to his father and no result ,the babalawo told him to make enquiry from his mother, he went to his mother and said I will prostate for you and his mother said no don't prostrate for me you are a king because is a taboo for king to prostate and he started crying, then the mother said let me tell you the truth when I was in your father's house suffering with nothing to eat,I decided to go to the forest called Ebedi in search for firewood and she was axing tree and a gorilla came out and had sexual intercourse with her, after the first round the gorilla wanted to had another sex round with the woman and the woman gave a sign with her hand that in the human kingdom if we wanted to have another sex round we do put our hand in the opening of wood as the gorilla put his hand the the opening of wood that the woman is breaking with are she removed the axe and ran away, the gorilla was unable to remove its hand and eventually died in Ebedi forest .But the woman can't tell her husband but luckily for he she was pregnant through the sex she had with the gorilla, she later use women craftiness and let her husband had sexual intercourse and lead to your birth Aseyin.Gorrila was your father.Aseyin went back and told the babalawos and they called her mother if she can take them to the spot where the incident took place and she did, when they got there they told his mother to excuse them and she did, they gathered all the decayed bones of the gorilla and remove some pieces from the spot of the broken wood that the gorilla deep its hands into them, though the tree has sprouted new leaf maybe the tree has not yet dry when the incident happened then, some pieces of woods was carved out from where the gorilla deep its hand into and was tied with rope along with the gorilla bone, Announcement was then made to the town that Aseyin is bringing his father to town from the forest, everyone should remain indoor because Aseyin is bringing his father from ebedi forest, And the are sing like this
SONG
Closed the door oro is coming
Masquerade of Aseyin is coming
Closed the door don't see oro ,son is coming with his father.
That is how the gorilla was taking to town and was buried .
They offered sacrifices and atonement was done ,they all dance all around the town and make merry,
After awhile all aseyin wife conceived gave birth ,and Aseyin became father and oro became deity of Aseyin.Aseyin to Oro Iseyin deity,
TOPIC. ORO AS A DELIVERER
1 Oro is a special deity among the ditties that descended into the earth.
2 Oro is a male deity
3 is a deity that brings victory
4. It gives children
5 it gives wealth
6 it deliver town from problem
7 it against women to known about its secret or intimacy ,is a taboo for women know to about is intimacy.
FACT ABOUT ITS
In some town Oro comes out during the day while it comes out day and night in some town
In some town night only.
But let discuss about Oro that ifa clarify in its odus Owonrin in the right hand and ofun on the left is the one that descended from heaven .
Oro and egungun and siblings
Oro is the elder brother to egungun (Masquerade)
When the are both descended from heaven, Oro does not dance to drums but to rattles alone,
Oro foods
he like porridge,
cooked maize,
gin,
male goat.
When oro and egungun his junior brother are coming from heaven into the world the are told to make a sacrifice but the babalawo told them to use the body garment as a sacrifice but is only masquerade that yield to the voice of babalawo and make the sacrifices .
When they got to a t junction to get to the earth Oro the sent his masquerade into the world to confirm if the world is ready for their arrival or not, and masquerade told oro that I can't go naked because I have use my clothes as sacrifice, oro then gave masquerade his own cloth and ordered him to go, on masquerade arrival to the world he was welcome, the told him we have been waiting for you and was carried shoulder high, they are celebrating him for day one ,two ,three and up to five days and Oro was still waiting for masquerade at the boundary of agbansala between heaven and earth expecting masquerade returns but when masquerade refuse to return back Oro descended to the world at nigh and was wailing sand…..
Wommuu,,
woommuu,,
woomuummuu,,,
mimmmm……………
And he started killing people because he was annoyed because he was betray and chaos and anarchy every where,
Any women that see him fall and died.
Then the elderly one consulted the oracle and ask what type of diety is this, oracle told them is the elder brother to masquerade,
he must be given a special place and be worship and women must not see it, and whosoever that does not belong to its society must not see it,
and that day it was appeased with
porridge/cooked corn /male fowl, he goat/gin and he must always comes out at night and women must not see him.
Epaa Oro ! Epaa ita.
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