Òtúrúpọ̀n Meji (Oturupon)

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 ẹbọ to Èṣù for the change of attitude the odù demands, and says the biggest ẹbọ in Òtúrúpọ̀n is the giving up of arrogance; it also names ẹbọ to Orí and to Ifá for prosperity. For healthy and well-behaved children it prescribes offerings to Egúngún and to Ọ̀ṣànmá (Ọbàtálá). Because the odù invokes infectious disease, it is spoken of on the mat under the alias Ologbon rather than by name, a practice that is itself part of the odù's handling.

Òtúrúpọ̀n is the odù of disease and of the immune response to it, and it is read through the whole cycle of degeneration and rebirth: disease is a cleansing and a strengthening, it confers immunity, and it becomes dangerous only when it passes beyond that function. It speaks of the birth of the Egúngún cult, of witchcraft and the occult, and of weak health understood as an unhealthy relation with nature. Its people are rugged, tough and stubborn to a fault, and its prescription is humility — the largest offering the odù asks is the surrender of arrogance. It is close to Ọ̀ṣun, and the tradition expects the person to be close to her too.