Iwori Yeku

A certain osainista was famous in his town, and many people came to his house to consult and look for solutions to their affairs. A beautiful woman from another tribe appeared there, and the osainista fell captivated by her. To find out whether his Osain approved of her as a partner, he showed her to it. The answer was no: the woman was not good for his son. And all this happened without his knowing whether she felt any interest.

The osainista, ignoring Osain's refusal, kept courting her, but he could not get her to accept him. Then he offered to reveal how his Osain worked if she gave him her love. Curiosity won over the woman and she accepted the deal. He led her to his home and explained how he worked with the cauldron.

Right away she began to suffer pains in her belly. The osainista longed to have an intimate life with her, but the woman showed not the slightest desire and tried to dodge him. It turned out that, on learning the secret, Osain had turned her into a man and taken away her menstruation, so that now other women attracted her. Osain also punished his son: he made him impotent and, in time, deaf and blind. From that day the house was under the woman's authority.

Hence comes the rule of not teaching the secrets of Osain to women. Only a woman whose menstruation has been withdrawn, or who lacks it, is allowed to have a guide of Osain.

Shangó and Olokun lived as enemies, and their quarrel grew so large that they asked for Oshosi to come and end it.

Oshosi saw that neither one respected or took the other into account. He decided to put both of them in prison, hoping that this would put out the rivalry.

Both owned businesses, and around them there were envious people. These envious people set them against each other so that they could later take over what each one owned.

Oshosi set them free and led them before Orunmila. He consulted the oracle and the odu Iwori Yeku appeared. He prescribed an ebbó and asked them to act as if they had lost interest in their businesses. That way they would see who their enemies were, since those people would rush to take the businesses.

Everything happened like that. From that moment on, Shangó and Olokun became loyal friends, the war ended, and they went forward in unity.

A certain man, very poor, saw everything he tried fail; he lived in anguish and had lost his faith. He thought of consulting Orunmila, in case that improved his luck. Orunmila received him, consulted the osode and found the odu Iwori Yeku. He explained that life had struck him so hard that he no longer believed in anything, and that his trouble was due to the belonging of a dead person that he kept at home. With that object he had to make the ebbó, so that the dead person would move away and stop harming him. He also forbade him to do a favor for anyone.

The man carried out the ebbó. Orunmila gave him the package and ordered him to leave it on a road far from the town, without stopping to chat with anyone before leaving it there.

With the package on him, the man was walking the roads looking for a suitable place when he came across a friend of his, a cart driver, who was struggling to pull his cart out of a bog. He went over to help and left the ebbó on the cart. The cart driver was cursing his bad luck. As soon as the cart came out of the mud, its owner, who had to arrive soon at his destination, urged on the animal and went on his way. Seeing his friend drive off without saying goodbye, the man with the ebbó ran after him to get the package back, but he slipped in the mud, fell under a wheel and it crushed his head.

That is how that man without faith died, for having forgotten what Orunmila advised him.