Ọ̀kànràn Méjì

Before any of them were worshipped, every one of them was initiated. Egúngún. Ọ̀rúnmìlà himself. Ọ̀sanyìn. Ọbàtálá. Ọ̀ṣun. The Earth beneath your feet. The Ìyàmí Àjẹ́. And last of all, Èṣù Ọ̀dàrà. Eight great beings, and each was brought into Ifá by a different Odù, in the order the Odù fall. The eighth Odù initiates Èṣù, and then names itself. It is Ọ̀kànràn Méjì. Then the prayer turns. An old Babaláwo, alone at his tray, asks the eight for the same honour: "It is only one head that the he-goat has. It is my head alone that should become venerable." A painted graphic novel from the prayer to one's Orí in Ọ̀kànràn Méjì, after Ayọ̀ Ṣàlámì, Yorùbá Theology.