Two princes wanted to know misery and hunger. Orunmila made them ebbó and told them to throw it away after walking; lost in the bush, hungry and filthy, Osain showed them the way out and they understood what a man goes through.
Two princes were curious to hear the poor tell of their hardships, and they came to Orunmila with the request that he show them what misery, hunger and backwardness were. Orunmila laughed: that, he answered, was madness on their part, and it is not something you go and look at. They insisted, saying they had money to spare. He did an osode for them, this Ifá came out, he marked them ebbó and ordered them to drop it far away, after walking a good stretch.
They walked through the bush until they were worn out, they lost their way, they went whole days without eating, their clothes in tatters and no water to be found; they found a turtle and ate it raw. There Osain appeared to them. They begged him to get them out, and he reminded them that misery was exactly what they had wanted to know. In the end he put in their hands two little sticks of abre camino, telling them to throw them away as soon as they got out; the moment they threw them, a path and some farmers appeared before them. Back in town they said: "let us go tell Orunmila that now we know the hardships a man goes through in his struggle to live."