▷ How to Attend Orula《How Aleyo, Petition and Offering》✔️

Last Update: December 27, 2021

Orula is one of the divinities of the Orishas in the Yoruba religion, known for the protection it offers its believers from bad energy and even death, which with its history has become one of the most loved by people.

The Yoruba have joined their beliefs for many years, leading to form the religion and expand thanks to the amount of Africans who they were emigrating.

How to attend to Orula at home in his day?

It is a divinity that takes into account the offerings and the intentions of the requests you receiveif he perceives that it is an intention in bad taste or a negative effect, he will not give you what you ask for.

When serving him you must be careful and respectful. All you have to do is the following:

You must bathe to clean your body very well before the day of care, preferably 48 hours before. You have to dress in a white color, since it is a symbol of peace. The clothes that you use, in case of being a woman, cannot have necklines, you cannot have short skirts that are above the knee, and none of these garments may have transparencies. You cannot touch the ground when you are in front of the altar, so place a white cloak to avoid direct contact as well as the offerings. Place the 2 candles on the white plates along with the offerings on the mantle. Remember that you must greet him before addressing him and start asking. Keep a calm attitude and talk to him polite way, avoiding saying bad words and having arguments in front of him. You should pay attention to him only at dawn, between 3 and 4 in the morning, and preferably during the full moon. You only have to leave the offerings for a period no more than 16 days, taking into account that it must be an even day, when your withdrawal is made. When removing the offerings, you have to take them to a river (as far as you can reach) and let the current carry them away.

How to attend to Orula being aleyo?

If you are still an aleyo, remember that you will not be able to know any of the secrets of the consecrations nor will you be able to exercise them.

The Yoruba religion manages a series of rules that must be followed by each of the believers and that must be respected along with their beliefs without any excuse, so you can’t attend to Orula without first going through the ceremony to receive it.

You must go with a ifa priest and ask to start with the hand of orula at the next ceremony. Get all the offerings that you must acquire to present them to Orula in the Orisha’s reception ceremony. Do the ceremony 3 days fulfilling each of the steps, if you break any of the rules, Orula may be upset with you and you will not be able to follow the ceremony to receive it. Receive the Idde or protection bracelet on the third and last day of the Hand of Orula ceremony and you should not take it off. The next date of care after receiving divinityyou can attend to it as usual.

As time goes by from your reception of Orula and his Idde, you will learn more and more things and you will be able to do more in his rituals and with his attention.

How to attend to Orula on October 4?

The date on which his day is celebrated is October 4, so on these dates cleanings must be done, both of the house and of the altar. Remember that you must clean yourself very well to be able to attend to him, otherwise, Orula will take it as a lack of respect for his person.

The offerings that you have to make on this date is to place 2 coconuts and 2 candles on the altar, which must be on white plates that they should not be touching the ground.

The common thing is that you place all the offerings in front of Orisha on his altar, just as you go to the home of your Ifá godfather also with some gifts or offerings to give them to the Orula from whom yours was born.

The babalawos on this day have Special care and build beautiful altars in his name. In them there must be a great variety and quantity of flowers together with various gifts for the lord of Ifá, which can be sweets, cakes or some food that he likes.

How to greet him?

It is important that if you have the Orula altar in your home say hello When passing by, however, when you arrive at a house of a friend or family member who has an Orumila altar, you must also greet him, as follows:

Go to the altar with respectful attitude and stand in front of him, looking into his eyes. You should put the tips of your fingers of both hands on your forehead. Then, place the tip of your fingers on your lips. Place your fingers on the ground. You must immediately say the phrase “Iború, Iboyá, Ibochiché.” When you leave, you should not use profanity or profanity until you are away from their space.

Remember that even if only you are greeting himIf you are a woman, avoid addressing him if you are dressed with a very pronounced neckline, with quite prominent transparencies or if you are wearing a rather short skirt.

How often do you serve him?

Preferably, you should be attended on Sundays, however, many people decide to attend you every 25 days or on 16 days of each month.

All the Orishas have a certain date as their day, so another date that is fundamental, that requires attention complete and mandatoryit is on his day of celebration that is October 4, being the special day for this orisha.

However, if you feel that he is asking for your attention or you feel a great need to talk to him, you should follow your sixth sense and do it.

What should you not do in front of him?

It is a rather delicate divinity, who considers that respect is the more important and it should always be maintained no matter what circumstances you find yourself in.

If you are going to receive Orula you have to know that there are a variety of things that this orisha does not tolerateand if someone breaks their rules, they will get upset and not attend to their requests, so it is important that you know the following:

You should not be naked during your care, or perform sexual practices the day before or even avoid it for 48 hours before. You should not be under the effects of alcoholic beverages for any reason. You can not say profanity during the ritual, near him, or when addressing him.
you can’t wish evil to any person, nor have harmful intentions for the other person. You should not have arguments in front of him, nor have had it hours before the attention, it is advisable to maintain a serene attitude during the 3 days before of your attention. If you are a woman, Orula considers that you cannot perform the ceremony or ritual of attention if you are in your menstruation days.

What are your offerings?

For Orunmila, you will have several offering options that you can take into account when carrying out your respective attention. If food is offered to him, it is important that you know that it must be tried before him, to demonstrate that it does not have any negative purpose and that it is safe to eat it.

Consider the things that he likes the mostof which some of his favorites are as follows:

there must be 2 white candles on some plates. If you want to offer animals, make sure they are goats, black chickens, pigeons or sacrificial deer. The white basil. The name. the balls of gofio with honey they are one of his favourites. Shrimp or lobster.
sweets or food with honey. The coconut.
assorted flowers in great quantities.

Remember that Orula does not like alcoholic beverages, so he may get upset if you offer him drinks that are not to his liking, for example, the only thing he accepts is 2 glasses of red wine.

When making your offerings, you must also pray to ask for what you want, for example, you can pray to the money, the job, abundance either breaking new groundamong others.

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