Olokun threatened to finish off all Obatalá's children, the aguemas. Obatalá, with Osain's herbs and Orunmila's ebbó, scattered corn that sprouted at once; Olokun took it for a great army and asked for peace.
Olokun's children complained about the aguemas, Obatalá's children, who kept them uneasy. Olokun, proud of a monster in his service, went to Obatalá's land singing. Obatalá, who was fishing, heard his bluster and feared for his children; the aguemas prayed and he answered them with Iré Ashegun Otá. Olokun threatened him: «I will finish off not only your children in this land, but all of them, and you will be left alone». Obatalá, knowing he had no strength against the monster, began to weep.
With his agogó he went to Osain's house, and Osain gave him herbs and sent him to Orunmila; Orunmila saw Iwori Wode for him and marked him an ebbó, telling him to scatter its contents — corn — at Enifa. By the virtue of Osain, the corn sprouted and put out ears at once; the aguemas knocked about inside the cornfield making a great noise. Olokun, with his monster ready, looked out from Onika, saw everything covered in corn and took it for a great armed army. Frightened, he said to his monster: «we cannot fight against that; we must make peace with Obatalá». So this Ifá turned into Iré Ashegun Otá.