Ogué the healer was sent by Obatalá to cure a sick woman; Shangó told her husband: «Go home, she is unfaithful to you with Ogué». The husband ran with his machete; Ogué jumped out the window and fell into a hole. Obatalá cleared up the lie, made Shangó get him out by his own cunning, and ruled: «For lying, for as long as the world is the world, you will have to carry Ogué on top of you». To iban Eshu — that is why Ogué lives on Shangó's vessel, and for the Awó they eat together.
Ogué was a man with a reputation as a doctor, or rather as a healer, and in the tribe he was taken for a doctor. There was a married couple whose wife was ill, and Obatalá sent Ogué to try to cure her. Ogué went to the house; but Shangó saw him go in, went to where the sick woman's husband worked and told him: «Go home right now, so you can see for yourself that she is unfaithful to you with Ogué the healer». The husband believed him, flew into a rage, left work, and taking up a machete ran home.
When he arrived he saw his wife lying down and Ogué standing in front of the bed: he began to insult them, and drawing his machete tried to attack Ogué. There was a window in that room through which Ogué was able to jump; he ran off with the husband behind him, and since he did not know the way, he fell into a hole he could not get out of. Obatalá happened to pass by and asked what was going on; the husband told him furiously what Shangó had said, and Obatalá — who knew perfectly well what had happened — told him: «That is a lie of Shangó's: Ogué went to your house to cure your wife on my orders». Obatalá sent for Shangó and told him: «You are responsible for all of this: therefore you are the one who has to get Ogué out of the hole». Shangó used his cunning and managed to get him out. Once Ogué was out, Obatalá turned to Shangó: «For lying, I order that for as long as the world is the world, you will have to carry Ogué on top of you». To iban Eshu. For the Awó, Shangó and Ogué eat together.