Ogum is iron, war, the road — the Orisha who transforms raw matter into tool and tool into conquest. But the same fire that forges the hoe also consumes whoever cannot extinguish the flame.
In this study, three myths from Reginaldo Prandi's Ogum chapter are read in sequence: the secret of iron, given by Orunmila; the coronation in Irê, conquered by the sword; and the fall through excess, when Ogum kills his own subjects and the earth swallows him. Then two other stories from the same chapter tell the first one backwards — and it is in the divergence that the Orisha appears whole. Each story is cited by the exact title of the source. The opening is open to all; the full study, with the five patakís retold and the reading that binds them, is for subscribers.
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