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What does Oyeku-Ofun mean in Ifa? Oyeku-Ofun is the fifteenth and final combination Odu led by Oyeku Meji (combination entry 46 in the manuscript order): Oyeku - darkness, endings, the ancestors, the unseen - leads on the right leg, and Ofun Meji - the Giver, generosity, completion, the elder's wisdom - answers on the left. This educational article reads the combination by the Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola manuscript's own conversation method: an ending that closes in giving. Teachings: bury first, give second - a refused ending becomes a rot; look underneath, at the ancestors and the quiet causes, before any gift is decided; the gift is how an ending becomes a planting; discernment is the night-sight of the elder - discern the worthy recipient from the endless drain. Anchored in the manuscript's 'How the 256 Are Made' section, 'How to Use' point 4, entry 2 (Oyeku Meji) and entry 16 (Ofun Meji). Oyeku's verse, Ofun's verse and the combination verse are [SOURCE NEEDED] per the manuscript - withheld, never invented. Ofun's sign is presented exactly as the manuscript's account gives it, in words (the marks of the open hand); no column pattern invented. Source and related reading, stated exactly: the teaching SOURCE is The Original AI: Ancestral Intelligence - The 256 Odu of Ifa by Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola (Ajarn Shaman Shu), which is also the volume carried in the buy block; no separate related-reading volume is carried. Devotional/educational only; study is not initiation.
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