Must Read: How Opele become Ifa divination tool.

Opele

The ancient name of opele when he was still a human being was ireree. Orunmila bought ireree as a from. Ejigbomekun market to serve as a gardener that will be cleaning Orunmila house hold. His main duty is to clear the bushes around and remove refuse from ifa divination mat,but opele was a very gifted in act of divination reading, he everything that clients that visit orunmila want even before orunmila consult Ikin ifa for the client. More over opele can not go to farm for orunmila because opele is suffering from left leg limb problem that prevents him from working properly, Orunmila now because of opele knowledge grant him favour to be divining for the the client that come when ever Orunmila is not at home but opele abuse this privileged that orunmila gave him that is how opele become a ifa divination tool up till today, let me quickly explain everything in full as explained in odu ifa ejiogbe.

In ancient time the only divination tool was Ikin ifa aka oke iponri. Previously, in the ancient time, opele was a human being known as irere. He was a slave of orunmila. Orunmila purchased him from a market called Ejigbomekun. However, irere was very knowledgeable in the act of divination. The story of how Orunmila obtained opele can be found in holy odu Eji Ogbe. On the day that Orunmila obtained opele, he wanted to purchase ebo materials from oja Ejigbomekun, the odu casted on that day was Eji Ogbe. Ifa advised Orunmila that when he arrives at the market, he should buy items, which he doesn’t need; prior to buying the ebo materials. He was advised that whatever he bought on that particular day will become of particular lifelong benefit to him. Prior, to Orunmila going to the market, Orunmila offered
Ebo. On the said day Orunmila bought irere from the market. Below is the stanza-

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