For a long time Osain had been throwing powders, eggs and other workings at Orunmila. Eshu told him every day to look at what was being done to him, but Orunmila let it pass.
Emboldened, Osain began to proclaim that nobody knew as much as he did, and part of the people moved to his side. Orunmila then consulted, saw this Ifá and performed the ebbó with palm oil, a horn, two hens and a rooster. Then he had Osain called to ask him to stop bothering him. That request ended in a quarrel, and before Obatalá the two sealed this bet: each would bury his children for three days and would have to bring them out alive.
With the ebbó already done, Orunmila had two holes dug beside the river. He gave Oshún two hens so that she would open a passage between them, and through it the buried children received food.
When the third day came, the court gathered. Orunmila raised his song, the earth moved and his children came out. Beforehand, he had asked Eshu to place the ebbó in the hole. Eshu took it, pushed it by force into Osain's horn and closed its openings. When Osain tried to blow it, it gave out no sound at all, and with that he lost the bet. Orunmila had his children come out through the only opening that Elegba had left free, and Osain became his slave.
Arrogance and constant provocation end up turning against whoever practices them. Whoever prepares ahead with an ebbó and has the right help passes the test, while the proud one is left without resources. A rival who seems strong can lose all power because of what another prepared in time.
A horn, palm oil, a rooster and two hens, which Orunmila prepared before the bet. Separately, two more hens for Oshún, who opened the passage between the holes.
If there is an abandoned child, it is wise to take him in, because in old age he may be a support.
This path has a work for Elegba against an enemy, which is done with a horn. Its preparation is in the complete treatise.