Osain threw powders at Orunmila and boasted of knowing more than anyone; they made a wager before Obatalá to bury their children for three days and bring them out alive — Oshún opened the tunnel that fed Orunmila's children, and Eshu stopped up Osain's horn with the ebbó: Osain lost and became Orunmila's slave.
Osain threw powders, eggs and the like at Orunmila, and Eshu told Orunmila every day: «Look at everything that is happening to you.» But Orunmila paid no attention.
Osain went so far, saying he knew more than everyone, that people began going over to his side. Orunmila was read and this Ifá came up, and he made ebbó with a rooster, two hens, a horn and corojo butter, and sent for Osain, putting it to him that he should keep still. They fell into an argument and made a wager before Obatalá, to see which of the two could bury his children for three days and afterward bring them out alive.
Since Orunmila had made ebbó, he had two holes dug by the river and gave two hens to Oshún, so she would open a passage joining the holes, and that way he fed his buried children.
After three days the court gathered and Orunmila began to sing: the earth moved and he brought out his children. Orunmila had already sent Eshu to throw the ebbó into the hole. Eshu took the ebbó and stuffed it into the mayombero's horn, and stopped up the holes, leaving him only one. The mayombero went to sound his horn and could not, since the holes were stopped up. That is how he lost. Orunmila brought his own out through the hole Elegbá had left, and Osain was left as Orunmila's slave.
Note: if you have an abandoned child, take them in, since it can be to your benefit in your old age. Work: set before Elegbá a horn with the enemy's name inside, stopped up with soap.