A Name with Two Spellings

Owani, also written Ojuani in a number of Lucumi manuals, is the eleven-mouth sign of the Diloggun throw. The variant spellings reflect the oral transmission of the tradition across generations of initiates and across the Spanish-language environment of Cuban Santeria, rather than two different signs; both forms refer to the same throw and the same position in the sixteen-sign sequence. Its name is counted among the majority shared with the corresponding parent figure in Ifa divination, part of the common Yoruba vocabulary underlying both oracles.

Spelling variation of this kind is common across the whole Diloggun corpus, since the tradition was preserved chiefly through spoken instruction inside religious houses rather than through a single standardized published text, and different authors transliterating from oral practice have not always agreed on an English or Spanish rendering of the original Yoruba. Readers encountering either "Owani" or "Ojuani" in other sources should treat them as the same sign. As with every parent Odu, the proverbs and prescribed remedies specific to Owani belong to initiated diviners and to the person receiving a reading, and are not part of this structural entry.