Hunting the deer for his ebbó, Eyi Elemere fell into a hole; only Kporoye pulled him out with her turban — and from that meeting Olomo was born. Years later, sold as a slave for his own father's sacrifice, the boy saved himself by singing his story: and human sacrifice was abolished forever.
Eyi Elemere needed a whole deer for the sacrifice that would give him a son. In the town of Ujo he read for Kporoye, a woman with no children, and made her ebbó; then, in the forest, he called a great deer with his mirror, and in the struggle both fell into a deep hole. The children, the men and the women who passed by mocked him — «the doctor who saves others cannot save himself?» — and walked on. Only Kporoye, who was coming to leave her sacrifice next to the hole, held out her turban, which he charmed to make longer, and pulled him out with the deer. As she fell backwards she was left uncovered, and from that meeting — on a bed of ikín leaves, because it is forbidden to make love on the bare earth — Eyi Elemere told her a son would be born. He described his house in Oke Mesi and they went their separate ways.
Kporoye had Olomo, who grew up singing the songs of a father he did not know. When she finally took him to look for him, three bandits caught them and sold them as slaves separately. And the wife of Eyi Elemere, looking for a slave for the human sacrifice at her husband's yearly Ifá festival, bought — without knowing it — Olomo.
While cracking palm seeds, the boy sang his whole story: the hole, the turban, the deer, the house with the tree that gave coral. Eyi Elemere listened in hiding, and tested him with fire — which did not burn him — and with boiling water, which turned ice cold. He held him as his true son. On the day of the festival, Eshú blunted the executioner's knife, which could not cut the victim's neck; the priests recognized the son, and Eyi Elemere declared: from that day on, Orunmila would never accept a human being in sacrifice. Afterwards he rescued Kporoye — masked in palm leaves he danced her out of her father's palace — and with her and his children he lived in prosperity forever.