Òṣé-Ọ̀gbẹ̀ (Ose-Ogbe)

The commentary prescribes kola to the person's Orí for wealth, ẹbọ for protection from Àjẹ́, ẹbọ for long life made with white cloth, white beans, a calabash of ẹfun and four white pigeons, and — where the client is pregnant — ẹbọ for the child's health. For children it prescribes a party serving ìlasa soup, which is one of the few prescriptions in the corpus that is explicitly a feast.

Òṣé-Ọ̀gbẹ̀ is abundance arriving at the open road: collection of what is owed, payment in full for work done, and success in business shared with a friend. It is a prosperity odù with a sharp practical edge — the commentary's first instruction is to collect the debts and to refuse to work without a contract, which is unusually concrete for the corpus. Its warning is that abundance must not become greed, and that the person must not associate with bad people; it also says the person may be confiding in someone who is in fact an enemy. Èṣù Ọ̀dàrà appears in the verse because the road, and who one meets on it, is the odù's subject.

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.