God had flooded the first world because of how depraved its people were; seven thousand years later he sent the two hundred divinities to populate it again. Koin-koin — Obara Dila in heaven — told them to sacrifice, and only Orunmila did. Arriving last, he was given the shell holding the sand; the divinities were left hanging in the palm above the mass of water, until Arugba the messenger told Orunmila to put the mouth of the shell in the water: the sand fell, the earth grew solid, and the second peopling of the world began — the one still standing today.
«Koin-koin mi ta lu idi»: the Odù that tells how the earth was founded made the reading for the two hundred divinities of the right and of the left when they were about to carry out the founding of the earth. God had used water to flood the first peoples because of the lust and moral depravity of those first inhabitants: that is why he destroyed the world with water. After seven thousand years, he decided to make a second attempt at peopling the earth: he called the two hundred divinities and commissioned them to go, as one single body, to make the world a better place. Koin-koin, the heavenly name of Obara Dila, read for them: each of them was to sacrifice to Eshu white cloth, cascarilla, cowries and a parrot feather at the heavenly river Mimikpo, and a guinea fowl to their Guardian Angel. Not one of them sacrificed, except Orunmila.
God sent the messenger Arugba to summon all the divinities to the Divine Chamber the following morning, and she told Orunmila what to do, because he was the only one who had sacrificed. At the assembly, God gave his orders with the instruction not to return home before setting out; Orunmila was the last to appear, and therefore took the shell that held the sand for making the earth solid — and with divine permission he traveled with Arugba. Since there was no solid ground and everything was flooded, the two hundred divinities stayed at the top of a palm with its roots in heaven and its branches on earth, looking at the mass of water below them. It was Arugba who told Orunmila to put the mouth of the shell in the water: the sand fell, made the earth solid, and before long they were able to come down from the palm. So began the second attempt at inhabiting the earth, the one still standing in our days. In Igbodu the special sacrifice of the bush snail and the chameleon is made, and the person will live a long life; in an ordinary reading, a goat for Eshu and receiving Orunmila, since serious difficulties may be ahead.