4, 5 & 6. OGGUN

Fetish:
Oggun resides in a small three-legged iron cauldron.

Ornaments:
All iron tools, including weapons, belong to Oggun. Models of a machete, a shovel, a pick, a hammer, an anvil, a hoe, a knife, etc., are placed inside amd around the cauldron. He is also accompanied by a black dog and a snake.

Power objects:
A machete.

Collars:
Green and black. Repeat pattern: seven green beads followed by seven black beads. Then, a green bead alternates with a black bead seven times.

Clothing:
Oggun wears a tiger skin bag ornamented with cowrie shells on his shoulder. His coat and pants are purple. The hat is flattened out. He wears a belt festooned with long fringes of palm leaf fibers.

Offerings:
Roasted yam, kola nuts and aguardiente. Goats and roosters.

Dances:
When Oggun "comes down", he is known by two characteristic dances: In the warrior dance, he strikes the air with his machete while squatting down, advancing with one foot and dragging the other. In the laborer's dance, he harvests plants with his machete or mimes beating on the machete, using his fist like a blacksmith's hammer. The other dancers imitate Oggun's movements, dancing around him in a circle.

OGGUN 1

o gun de/ e /a re re /(rest) /
y le /gbon gbon /lo ku a /o gun /
gua ni le /o gun /gua lo na /(rest)/
y le /gbon gbon /lo ku a /e /

Oggun is here, everywhere.
Oggun in the house.
Oggun in the road.
Oggun in the world's house.

Repeat as desired
4 times:

|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      |r

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

Alternative (iya):

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

3 times:

|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.
|            M  |    O   O      |r

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

Alternative:

|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.
|            M  |        O      |r

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

OGGUN 2

A cho e gue/o gun de/o gun a le re/gban gban/
A cho e gue/o gun de/o gun meyeo/gun lor cho/

Oggun arrives to the house wearing herbs.
Oggun arrives wearing herbs.
Oggun adorned. We look for him.

Same as Oggun 1.

Alternative:

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

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

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

OGGUN 3

E e/e e pkua/(rest)/
I e pkua/ke ye ke ye/mo dan so roa cho/
gun a la do/o ri sa/

Oh, oh, shout.
Honor, honor loud.
Oggun, owner of gourd and head.

Same as Oggun 2.