Warned that he would be prosperous but with a great deal of trouble, he sacrificed at the crossroads and received God's blessing. On earth he was so poor that he borrowed the cloths to decorate his altar. Seke, the Obá's daughter, offered herself to him in marriage in spite of his poverty; the king found him handsome, sent jewels and asked no dowry. His farm flourished, and Olokun's daughter, taken with his yams at the market, also came to marry him with all her riches. When the king saw how prosperous he had become, he made him Shasere and Prime Minister of the kingdom.
Before leaving for the world, he was warned to make sacrifice, because he was going to be very prosperous but at the same time would have a great deal of trouble: the sacrifice at Orita-Ijaloko with a bundle of yams, a bunch of plantains, corn, pounded yam and a bag of coins. He carried it out, and went to God to receive his blessing before leaving heaven. On earth he set to work the land and to practice Ifism, but things did not go well and he could not afford to marry. He invited other Awoses to read for him: he was to repeat the sacrifice, decorate his Ifá altar, serve it with a hen and give himself a coconut to his head. He was so poor that he had to borrow the cloths to decorate the altar; when the hen was killed, the blood stained the borrowed cloth, and later he returned the cloths to their owner along with drinks and kola nuts.
One day, standing in front of his house very early, he saw Seke, the Obá's daughter, go by. She explained that she had come to visit him, and once in the house she told him she had come to offer herself to him in marriage, because she had noticed he had been without a wife for a long time. He replied that he was a poor farmer, with no money to keep a wife; she insisted all the same. After living with him four days, she went back to tell her father of her decision, and he asked to meet him. Obara Oshe did not want to go, having no presentable clothes — «you are not invited to a parade of fine clothes», she reasoned — and he went. The king found him very handsome, approved the marriage at once, sent his treasurers to take jewels to the husband's house, and asked no dowry: only a yearly tribute. His wife traded with her father's capital, the farm flourished, and before long he built his own house. At the end of the year he sent his father-in-law the best yams with plantains, corn and kola nuts, and had his wife sell a great many yams at the market. There, Olokun's daughter found the yams very fine, and on learning they were from Obara Oshe's farm, she resolved to meet him: she dismissed her attendants, went to his house and told him she had come to marry him. «I have nothing, I am a simple farmer», he replied; she insisted that the farm was enough, and five days later she came back with her baggage and her riches — only then was it known that she was Olokun's daughter. She told Seke not to go to the market anymore: from that moment she would trade for the family. Obara Oshe became a very prosperous man, and when the king saw it, he made him Shasere and Prime Minister of the kingdom.