«My divining staff is taken up carefully, my whisk is precious as a bead, and my board is of gold»: he was told to serve Ogún with a turtle, his head with a rooster, Eshu with a young goat and Ifá with a female goat. On earth he married a difficult woman whose children died of convulsions: he repeated the sacrifice — with Eshu eating his young goat alone — and lost no more children. He prospered; and when Egbere, the Oloba's wife, fell irresistibly in love with him, Ifá told him to give a goat to Eshu: the Oloba not only gave her up without objection, but made him a great chief.
«My divining staff is taken up carefully, my whisk is as precious as a bead, and my divining board is of gold» were the Awoses who made the reading for this Odù when he was coming to earth. He was warned to serve Ogún with a turtle, his head with a rooster, Eshu with a young goat and Ifá with a female goat, so as to avoid having trouble with women on earth. He made the sacrifice and came down.
He married a difficult woman, who had children who frequently died of convulsions. He sought out some Awoses to make a reading at his house: he was to serve Ifá with a female goat, Eshu with a young goat — but Eshu was to eat it alone —, his head with a rooster and Ogún with a turtle. He made the sacrifice, and lost no more children. He began to prosper, but his modest success made him enemies. Meanwhile, Egbere, the wife of the Oloba of Oba, began to show an irresistible interest in him: he tried to satisfy her but could not stop her. He asked Ifá what to do, and was ordered to serve Eshu with a goat. After the sacrifice he began a relationship with the woman, and the Oloba not only gave her up without objection, but made him a great chief. In Igbodu: sacrifice to avoid trouble with a woman and the death of children, and to have prosperity. In an ordinary reading: a woman is desperate to marry you — marry her after giving a goat to Eshu.