Ìwòrì-Òṣé (Iwori-Ose)

The commentary's prescription is spare: the person must make ẹbọ and must do the things that conduce to long life, because long life is the odù's primal concern. Its characteristic insistence is on humility, which it calls the portal to the odù's ìre, and on moderation in all things — the offering is framed as the support for a change of conduct rather than as a substitute for it.

Ìwòrì-Òṣé is transformation finally arriving at abundance: Ìwòrì's fire and discomfort resolving into Òṣé's increase. It is the combination that couples the promise of plenty with the condition of humility, and it says the abundance is a consequence of the change rather than a reward for wanting it. Its verse concerns kingship — what belongs to Ifá is kingship — and it reads the client's long life as the thing that makes the rest worth having. The commentary warns that the person's transformation is not finished and that the odù's ìre depends on continuing it.

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 an amulu the two halves are different figures. In the 0/1 notation used in the scholarly literature, 1 here = 0 there and 2 here = 1 there.