18, 19 & 20. OBATALA

Fetish:
Obatala resides in a white toureen.

Ornaments:
Obatala "owns" everything white, including silver and white metals. He has a crown with 4 parrot feathers. A sun, a moon, a snake. six bracelets; all made out of silver. A silver hand holds up a white scepter. Two ivory eggs.

Power objects:
An opa, a scepter of power. A silver bracelet. An iruke, a white horse tail whisk.

Collars:
White beads. Also 21 white beads followed by a coral bead repeated to the desired length.

Clothing:
Obatala always dresses in white. His warrior avatars have a red sash across their chest. Suns and moons are embroidered on his costume. Eight ribbons go around his waist.

Offerings:
He likes white rice and all white foods. White chickens.

Dances:
When Obatala "comes down", he does not dance. To honor him, the dancers imitate the cautious, slow movements of the very old. If the dance is in honor of a warrior avatar, they mime a rider brandishing a sword. He speaks very softly and makes predictions, brushing clean those present with his iruke.

OBATALA 1

ba ba fu/ru ru/loe re re/o.../
o ke/ņe ņe/le yi bo/.../
e le/ri fun/mo si gua/sa guo/
e yi bo/re re/mo si gua/o.../
...o lu/a ye/ya gua o.../.../
e ya gua/guo ro e/le se ken.../.../

Father of the white cloud.
Master of the head, strike.
Master of the snake.
Yes, wonderful father.

Repeat as desired

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|    O   O       O   O  |    O   O       O   O  |r

|      S           S    |      S           S    |l itot.
|O                      |            O          |r

|S               S      |            S          |l iya
|          O O     O    |O     O                |r

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 &|
|S           S          |S           S          |l okon.
|    O   O       O   O  |    O   O       O   O  |r

|      S           S    |      S           S    |l itot.
|O                      |O           O          |r

|S                      |S           S          |l iya
|            O     O    |                       |r

OBATALA 2

i gue re/i ye/ye.../.../(rest)/(rest)/
ye o lu/guo mi o/ba ta la.../.../
o lu/gua mi o/bao ri sa/(rest)/
i ba i/ba ba/i ba i/ye ye/
i ba ka/ro guo o/da cho ma/me guo/
o di ka/guoa da/che o/lo mi o/
i ba ka/ro guo o/da cho ma/me guo/
o di ka/guo a da/che o/lo mi o/
sa o/lo fin o/ba ra ye/

Be calm, king of the white.
King of the head.
Honor the Father.
Honor the Mother.
Count money.
Count cloth.
King of the world.

Repeat as desired

|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &|1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &|
|  S       S    |  S       S    |l okon.
|O       O      |O       O      |r

|S       S      |S       S      |l itot.
|        O     O|              O|r

|S     S     S  |S     S     S  |l iya
|O   O          |O              |r

OBATALA 3

babaoba/o ma se ye/do ma ba ba/
o ma se ye/ba ba o ba/o ma se ye/
do ma ba ba/o ma se ye.../.../

Father king.
Father forever.

Same as Obatala 2