Eewo are individual prohibitions, revealed at initiation or in a major divination, and they are personal rather than communal — one person may be forbidden a particular food, colour, animal, place or day of the week that their sibling in the same house handles freely. They derive from the person's odu and from the requirements of their orisha. Nobody polices them and in most cases nobody else could know. The reasoning is not that the prohibited thing is impure in itself but that it is incompatible with this person's specific arrangement — the destiny they chose, the orisha they carry, the agreement made at initiation. Breaking a eewo is accordingly not framed as sin against a moral order but as damaging the structure your own life is standing on, with consequences that are described as practical rather than punitive. Diaspora initiates receive their eewo in the itá reading during the initiation week and are expected to observe them for life.