1 = single line (I); 2 = double line (II). Eight marks: the first four are the right-hand leg, the last four the left-hand leg, each read top to bottom. In the 0/1 notation used in the scholarly literature, 1 here = 0 there and 2 here = 1 there.
The commentary says the person must never give blood ẹbọ with their Ifá, and that palm oil and kola are what keep the ajogun away; it prescribes the propitiation of Orí regularly and a yearly family rite for the ancestors, which it treats as obligatory rather than optional. The odù is one of Ṣàngó's, and the lesson it draws from him is humility — that being wrong is possible, and that other people's opinions are worth hearing.
Ìrosùn is the fifth odù and the odù of ancestral line: its name is glossed as menstrual blood, one of the most powerful ritual substances the tradition knows, and it is read as the inheritance that makes a destiny achievable. It speaks of traps, of the need to take advice, and of the danger of arrogance; its promise is that potential is fulfilled through ancestral support and its failure mode is resistance to that support. A cycle begins again in Ìrosùn, one level of consciousness on from Òdí. Its practical demand is patience and gratitude, and its constant point of reference is Orí — the odù says that when a person is confused, it is Orí that must be propitiated.
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