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 prescribes head cleaning as the odù's first requirement, and says the person should be initiated to Ṣàngó, since it is Ṣàngó who grants the success and progress the odù promises. It also names Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì as the orìṣà who supplies the new ideas the odù calls for. Ẹbọ is directed at the anger the odù diagnoses, and the ẹ̀wọ̀ is explicit: no arrogance and no quarrelling, especially with elders.
Ọ̀kànràn is parsed as ọkàn ràn, 'the heart has struck', and the odù turns on the relation between heart and mind: for the Yoruba the heart is where emotion and psychic energy sit, and the odù's teaching is that head and heart must be brought into alignment or the person will be ruled by whichever is louder. It brings a great deal of ìre together with many enemies, and its people are leaders who must think before they act — hot-headed, emotionally unstable, and capable of great stubbornness. The odù also speaks of new directions and of thinking outside the received pattern, which is why Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì appears in it.
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