Ọ̀gbẹ̀-Ọ̀yẹ̀kú (Ogbe-Oyeku)

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.

The commentary names ẹbọ to Ọ̀bàtálá — three times, if the person has been going through a run of bad luck — with Ẹgbẹ́ and Ògún also prominent, and it frames the offering as what closes a cycle of misfortune rather than as a remedy for one incident. It records that the verse's client was advised to make ẹbọ and did, and that the result was the successful completion the odù promises.

Ọ̀gbẹ̀-Ọ̀yẹ̀kú is the first of the combinations and calls itself the father of them all: the meeting of pure light with pure darkness, which the tradition reads as the balance that makes anything else possible. It speaks of the open road leading to successful completion, of the balance between work and play, and of rest as a requirement rather than a reward. Its cycle is ending — time to prepare for the next project rather than to begin one — and the odù's characteristic warning is that planning a big move, a marriage or a change of work at this moment invites the attraction of negative entities. It is also the odù of the person worn out by their own effort.