Must Read: How Opele become Ifa divination tool.

He begin to claim that he is far far more knowledgeable than Orunmilain IFA divination. It happens one day that Orunmilawas on his itinerant divination tour, so king olofin send for opele to make divination for him since Orunmilahis master is not around opele begin to boost as usual, because opele was proud because of his knowledge. He didn’t pay homage to the king and cheifs as Orunmilausually do when ever Orunmila come for ifa divination. The king was angry because of opele rudeness, opele don’t even apologize. He left the palace of olofin without doing the divination for him. But when Orunmilacame back from his journey, king olofin sent for Orunmilaand report opele to him.Orunmilaquickly pay homage to the king and the cheifs an he tender abject apologies on behalf of opele, he then do the ifa divination and sacrifice for the king as required.

When Orunmila got to he called opele, he try to rebuke him, but opele was too proud and not remorseful. Orunmila get angry and he use iroke ifa (divination stick consecrated one) to knock opele on head and opele break into eight pieces of equal sizes. Instead of Orunmila to throw it away Orunmilaconsider is usefulness he then use thread and beads to make the eight pieces to ifa divination chain. That’s is how opele arrive as instrument of IFA divination up till to day. Different types of opele that emerge after like opele egbere, opele igba, opele eso opele, the one that is controversial is agbigba because of it efficiency it takes blood on itself unlike other opele, it is been divine with ase (do as say charm) but non the less Ikin is above them. All opele are slave to Ikin. Ikin and opele can be propitiate with food. But Ikin must be feed first and he must be feed separately from opele. Because opele is a slave. Slave don’t eat along with their master.

This can also be found in odu ifa ejiogbe where agbigba (this is a form of divination chain) compete with Ikin but it is the Ikin that overcome olodumare said ERU KI BE OLUWA GUN ESIN PAPO(A SLAVE DOES NOT RIDE ON SAME HORSE WITH HIS MASTER)
LESSON FROM THIS ODU IFA EJIOGBE ON OPELE

1:Humility: it can be deduce from the odu ifa above as I explained that man need to be humble no matter your God giving talent, no matter your wealth, no matter your status in life if you are not humble you on your way to doom. As see in the case of opele above.
2:Respect for people above you: people that olodumare place in position of authority above you you must respect them. Don’t speak ill of your oluwo, or your boss at places where you work or at your place of worship whether is ifa temple, mosque or church, respect people that are above you in age and status. You see what happens to opele when he disrespect the king and his master .
3: Obedience: obey ifa instructions when you do reading. You see when orunmila obey ifa instructions as explained above. He buy a opele as a slave because he has left limb problem, no one will want to buy such slave but orunmila heed ifa instructions and bought him.you see how useful opele become useful to orunmila and ifa devotee up till today.

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