Ẹbọ is the offering the oracle prescribes, and it is the practical hinge of the whole system: Ifá is consulted to find out what is owed and to whom, and the tradition understands the relationship between the visible and invisible worlds as one of reciprocity, so that a benefit is answered with an offering and an obstruction is lifted by one. Ẹbọ ranges from the utterly ordinary — kola, palm oil, water, a fowl, a meal — to the substantial, and each odù's verse names what was offered in the case it records. Alongside ẹbọ the verse almost always carries ẹ̀wọ̀, a taboo: something the person must stop doing or must not touch, which is often the part of the prescription the tradition treats as decisive.