Iwori Kana

A man stood in the way of his youngest daughter's relationship with a man of bad habits and a bad record; he advised her and even locked her up and kept watch, but she would not obey and one day went off with her sweetheart. The mother, to avoid worse trouble, told her husband not to look for her or report it to the authorities, and the father took the advice.

The son-in-law, seeing that the father made no claim, thought he was looking for a way to do him harm and lived on edge and watchful. In time he gave up gambling, found work and spent his nights with his wife. When she gave birth to a beautiful girl, they went with gifts to the father-in-law's house, and he, already knowing of the change, received him like a son; soon afterward the wedding was held. That is why you must not stand in the way of your daughters' relationships or curse them: in the future they are reconciled.

Osain kept up a war with Oggún; hidden under the oyuro roots in the river, he threw things at him and sang at him. Oggún, not knowing where it came from, flew into a rage, rubbed himself against the brambles until he bled and cut himself with his own knife. Yemayá, passing by, calmed him with her singing and went to ask Shangó for help. Shangó told her to dress in white and black, to go to the riverbank and to speak to no one; when she sang his secret, Osain came out, saw Yemayá but did not know her, and she stayed silent.

Shangó shook the earth with lightning and thunder, breaking the turtle eggs and bringing the small turtles into the world, and Osain began to eat them, and Yemayá warned him that he must not do that. When Shangó met Oggún, Oggún, ungrateful, turned threatening and boasted of the secret of the turtle. Shangó dressed himself in ashibatá leaves turned inside out, came out of the river throwing gunpowder, and Oggún, thinking him armed, accepted his power: «from now on I will respect you». They went before Ayaguna with a white rooster (Yemayá's) and a turtle (Osain's); Ayaguna made Oggún kneel, gave him the rooster's blood saying «this is your seat», and Yemayá handed him her necklace. When Oggún asked who that woman was, Obatalá told him to beg her pardon, since she was his mother, Yemayá Okute; Oggún declared himself slave to them all and said that when he worked for Osain and Shangó he would do it dressed in black.

There was a fisherman who, the more he caught, the more he wanted, and night caught him fishing every day; on the way back, he could no longer sell the fish, spoiled as it was. A colleague showed him fine and varied fish, saying: «this is nothing compared to what is in the deep sea». The fisherman, in a bad way, went to Orunmila, who saw this Odù for him and told him to make ebbó and not to bathe in the sea. He paid no attention, got hold of a mask so he could see underwater and bear the pressure, and dived to the bottom. There he met Olokun, who told him he had seen the secret but would not be able to reveal it; he took the mask off him, and the fisherman swallowed water until he burst and died. On this road Olokun must be received from a Babalawo, with whom lives a black doll dressed in blue and white.