03/01/2024
(ENGLISH TRANSLATION)�Letter of the Year 2024�Sociedad de Instrucción y Recreo El Cristo de Palmira
“The Truth Has Arrived on Earth”
The Sociedad de Recreación e Instrucción El Cristo de Palmira was founded in 1913 by its president Nicolás Solano (Sevilla). The presidency was later held by Facundo Primitivo Sevilla Molina (Ogbe Di Kaka Ogbe Di Lele), Nicolás Sevilla Stable (Ni Coco), Pablo Nicolás Sevilla Molina (Ofun Bile), Eduardo Capote Sevilla (Iwori Bogbe), and Felipe Capote Sevilla (Otura She).
Introduction
The appropriate ceremonies were done in preparation for taking out the letter of the year, carried out at the Sociedad EL CRISTO, located at Céspedes #21 between Martí and Independencia Streets, in Palmira, Cienfuegos, Cuba. A considerable group of experienced Babalawos, Olorishas, and their godchildren collaborated to do the ceremony for the Letter of the Year, which began on the 30th of December, 2023, and continued until the 1st of January, 2024, at 9:00 a.m, always keeping in mind that Orunmila is Okanshonsho.
Untefa of the Letter of the Year
Osorbo: AYAN CAFETI LERI (desperation caused by the head)�Oniche a Oggun sí�
Sign:
OGGUNDA DIO
Witnesses
OSALO FORBEYO
OGGUNDA MEYI
Reigning Orisha
OBBATALA�Onishe OBBATALA sí�Onishe Ko Kaure (petition)
Accompanying Orisha
Ochun�
Inshe for the ile
Clean with flowers
Flag (banner)
White with yellow borders
Ebbo of the Babalawo
akuko, atitan of the four corners, filings from a train rail, eku eya, opolopo owo
Ewe of the sign
Orosun
Rogacion of the babalawo
2 eyele fun fun
Ebbo missi of the Babalawo
Arbericulo
Ebbo of the Olorisha
1 eyele fun fun, 1 osadie, atitan de erita meri (3 corners), trap, spiderweb, EEAOO
Rogación of the Olorisha
bread fruit
Ebbo missi of the Olorisha
salvia
Ebbo of the Aborisha
3 jio jio, bogbo ewe, opolopo owo
Rogación of the Aborisha
Obi, omi tuto, EE. Oñi, Ori, Efun
Ebbo missi of the Aborisha
salvia and cotton
Remedy for health
8 slices of bread with ori and efun, itana meyi, obi omi tuto, kaure, and petition Obbatala.
For pregnant women
Clean yourself with a pumpkin with honey at the foot of Ochun
Rogacion of Shilekun Ile
Omi tuto, ori, itana meyi
PROVERBS
If if you have a firm desire, nothing tires you.
No one is more deaf that the one who doesn’t want to hear.
What you can’t eat, leave for someone else to eat.
When the rooster crows, it’s warning you about something.
Knowing how to wait is a trait of wise people.
Whatever you teach to other people, that’s what they’ll use to bring you down.
BORN HERE
deception and lies
lost illusions
peritonitis
where Eleggua went crying to Orula because he couldn’t find his way
Indicates:
1. infidelity in women�2. cesarean births
It speaks of:
Pe**le dysfunction
Eleggua stands on the corner to see who comes and goes from your house
Children are saved because of the mother
Women lost supremacy in the religion
heart problems, poisonings (intoxications), skin disease like psoriasis, etc.
Prohibitions
Don’t sit in chair with missing (or broken) seats
Don’t eat white beans or winter squash/ pumpkin.
RECOMENDATIONS
IFA SAYS…�1. Turn on the lights in the house as soon as it gets dark because there are malignant eggun who are coming to torment humans
2. Don’t walk around with sharp or pointed objects
3. Eleggua doesn’t agree with something that’s happening in the house
4. Put up white curtains with mariwo on the front of the house
5. Put a mirror for Oggun bordered with white and red cloth
6. Get an Eshu with two faces
7. The King is Asojano.
8. Inle through Ifa
9. Reinforce Oggun with 7 knives and 7 strong sticks
10. Raise a chick that will grow up to be a rooster, this keeps away IKU and uncovers enemies in the house
11. Do a work with Eleggua and Obbatala so you can have your own house
12. Get a canary for good luck
13. Know who you’re doing business with to avoid tragedy
14. Receive Inle, Asojano, Ochosi, Odde, Orisha Oko, Osain for prosperity and health
15. When people don’t want to listen to what you have to say, they say you’re crazy