Ebo (sacrifice/offering) is the primary technology of Ifá — every divination session ends with a prescription for ebo. But ebo is not propitiation or bribery of the gods. It is ritual adjustment: giving up something in one domain to correct an imbalance in another. You sacrifice a chicken not because the Orisha is hungry but because the act of giving creates a channel through which ashé can flow to repair what is broken. Hex 41 (Decrease) is mountain over lake: the lake decreases to nourish the mountain, voluntary loss that produces gain elsewhere. Hex 50 (The Caldron) is fire over wood: the ritual vessel that transforms raw offerings into spiritual nourishment. Ebo maps to both — the principle of decrease (what you give up) and the vessel of transformation (what the giving produces). The I-Ching's Hex 41 says: 'Decrease combined with sincerity brings about supreme good fortune.' Ifá says the same: ebo works only when performed with genuine intention.