Ogué had a reputation as a doctor, or rather as a healer, and in the tribe he was treated as one. A married woman fell ill and Obatalá sent Ogué to cure her.
Ogué arrived at the sick woman's house, but Shangó saw him go in. He went to the place where the husband worked and said to him: “Go home right now and you will see that your wife is unfaithful to you with Ogué, the healer.” The man believed him and became so angry that he left his work, took a machete and ran home.
When he arrived he saw his wife lying in bed and Ogué standing next to her. He insulted them both and drew the machete to attack Ogué. There was a window in the room, and Ogué jumped out through it and ran away, with the husband behind him. Since he did not know the ground, he fell into a hole from which he could not climb out.
At that moment Obatalá passed by and asked what was happening. The husband, still furious, told him what Shangó had said. Obatalá knew the truth well and answered that this was a lie of Shangó, because Ogué had gone to cure his wife by his order.
Obatalá sent for Shangó and said to him: “You are responsible for all of this, so you will pull Ogué out of the hole.” Shangó used his skill and managed to get him out. When Ogué was outside, Obatalá turned to Shangó: “Because you are a liar, I order that for as long as the world is the world, you carry Ogué on top of you.” The story ends with a formula in the ritual language addressed to Eshu.
A lie against another person ends up costing the one who told it, who must carry the harm he caused. Whoever acts on the errand of a superior has that superior's support, even when others accuse him without reason.
This path has a ritual note for the diviner about Shangó and Ogué, and the load of each Ogué; they are in the full treatise.
TO IBAN Eshu
Oloju loju re, oloju loju ikokó Malamala de, Ogué.