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What does Olokun's chaining teach about facing death? In Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola's Sacred Pataki of the Orisha, it teaches that the great powers are not destroyed but bounded by covenant, and that wisdom can win terms from what cannot be beaten. This educational article (Olokun, round 3) is anchored in fresh source material not used in rounds 1-2: the Sacred Pataki Orunmila chapter, section 3, 'Orunmila and Death' (Death moving beyond measure and season; the consultation, the prescribed ebo, the sixteen palm fronds become an endless maze; Death, honoured and satisfied, agrees to limits; the commentary naming the chaining of Olokun as the same philosophy; the note on odu attribution), the chapter introduction (Orunmila, Eleri Ipin, the Witness of Fate), and the book's bibliography Tier One entry for Ellis (1894) as the provenance of the Olokun flood account. The chaining account itself is assumed in the commentary's one-sentence reference and deliberately not re-taught. Accounts summarised in outline with exact citations. Devotional/educational only; study is not initiation; no medical claims.
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