Iwori Trupon

Orunmila was traveling from land to land and arrived at one where the trees gave no shade, since their leaves grew upward. The birds had hair instead of feathers. He was surprised and began to suffer, because he wanted shelter from the sun and, when he stood under a tree, he found no shade at all. Looking up he saw birds without feathers, and he also observed that the night there was long and strange.

When day broke, Orunmila consulted the oracle and Iwori Oturupon came out: he had to continue through that land, but first he needed to make ebbó.

When the sacrifice was finished, he walked many days and nights over ground full of mounds to the entrance of a settlement. To his astonishment nobody lived there: everyone had left. He crossed it and came out on the beach. Walking along it he saw written the name of Iwori Oturupon, the diviner of that land, who had left the direction marked for him and even a boat. With it Orunmila managed to leave the Strange Land.

It was the time when Shangó went around only with the prenda, since he held that with it he saw things sooner than with Ifá, and that was what he preferred.

A severe epidemic fell upon the earth. The drought was harsh, and the dust caused ailments of the throat, the eyes and the skin, with boils. Among those affected were seven brothers of Oduduwa, adults and minors.

Oduduwa called Shangó because he was the quickest at work and promised him a share of his ashé, that is, the chalice, a portion of his virtue, in exchange for freeing his brothers from death. Shangó accepted.

Shangó visited Yemayá and promised her two candles, two coconuts, two guineos and two white roosters if she would help him save those sick people. But another brother of Oduduwa fell ill and Shangó stopped keeping what he had promised.

Anguished, he visited Orunmila. He cast the osode, this odu appeared and, with the same things Shangó had promised Yemayá, he made the ebbó. He charged him to take them to the sea, before her, and ask her for water to water the earth and bring the dust down.

Shangó went, and Yemayá made all the water he wanted fall. The rain wet the earth, the dust yielded, the plants turned green and bore fruit, and the illness disappeared. With everything calm, Shangó went to Oduduwa's house to collect what had been offered, but the brothers refused, claiming it was their inheritance.

Shangó went back to Orunmila and told him. Orunmila gave him a small package of Iyefá prepared with powders, and told him how to use it when going back to claim.

Shangó acted that way, and Oduduwa handed him what was promised, since he had saved his brothers. Since then, on this path, Shangó possesses the santísimo.

Eyade, a son of Yemayá, was a great fishing enthusiast and spent his life at sea.

On one occasion, a storm pushed him in his boat to a distant islet. At dawn he asked the Sun to save him and promised that, if it did, he would help everyone in need. Olorun heard the plea: some fishermen passed by, spotted him and rescued him.

Back on dry land, Eyade forgot what he had promised the Sun and fulfilled none of it. Soon afterward he fell ill and went to Orunmila's house.

Orunmila consulted Ifá, found this odu and explained to him that the illness came from a promise to Olorun, the Sun, that he had not kept. He performed several works to heal him and then made Ifá for him.

A short time passed and people began to seek out Eyade, since they knew he was an awó of Orunmila. He sent them away. That attitude soon led him into poverty.

To get out of it he had to give Yemayá two roosters, at sea, and two black hens to his Ifá. From then on he worked as an awó to earn his living.