Odi Ofun (Odi Fumbo)

Obatalá, being ill, sent his son Aruñiña to Orunmila, who saw this Odù for him and told him that he himself was the cause of his father's illness, and that for Obatalá to be healed he had to leave the house — but alone, so as to avoid trouble. The son decided to go, but on his way out he stole all his father's savings and went off to a far land, where he met Eyo and threw the stolen money away with him.

Soon afterward his troubles began and he fell into the hands of the law. Meanwhile Obatalá recovered and went to thank Orunmila, who told him: «I sent him nothing of the sort; go through your belongings, and when your son comes back in trouble, do not let him in, because it will cost you your life». Obatalá found his savings gone, and when the son came back, with a heavy heart he threw him out, cursing him: «For as long as the world is the world, you will spend your life in jails and prisons».

In the land of Bayeku Niwe Inle, Eshú Banire Lawo (Odi Fumbo) served as Awó and everything was calm, since he was obedient to his father Elegbara. His brother Karako Awo, whose Odù was Ofun Di, envied him greatly and, every time Odi Fumbo made an ebbó, while he was getting ready to carry it away, cursed it so it would not work. So the ebbó kept coming out backward and people lost their faith in Odi Fumbo, who was left last among the Awoses. Karako, to take his place, offered to do all the work himself and leave Odi Fumbo only to close the ebbó and carry it away; but Ofun Di's ebbó stank, and people went off displeased.

Odi Fumbo had himself read, and his Odù told him to take from the secret of Ebo Obalu — two bottles and the chains his godfather had left in Ogún's keeping — and to give a dog to Ogún. As he buried the dog on the railway line, he saw his brother turning everyone against him, and he understood the betrayal. Weeping, he called his father Baralayiki, who appeared to him and went to his house; finding Ofun Di finishing an ebbó, he told him: «You are a traitor and you can no longer be in this land; you will always stink, for you are Ofun Di». And to Odi Fumbo: «You will no longer be first, but even coming last they will have to count on you to carry the ebbó away; set it before me first so I may bless it, and cleanse Ofun Di first by giving him three knocks». That is why the ebbó is passed under the board with three knocks and set before Eshú.

Aguema the chameleon was Obatalá's son and held all his secrets; in secret he went to the trees telling them Obatalá had sent him, and they all gave him their secrets except the cotton tree. One day he spoke with the dead in Yewa's house, and they told him he would come across a mouse. Aguema swore the mouse in as Obatalá's servant, who would taste every dish and run his errands; he took him to Obatalá as his «brother», showed him the secrets and went off to his own land. The mouse, tasting the food, made everyone ill, Obatalá included, who did sarayeye and prayed every day without getting better, because the mouse carried everything off to Aguema, who buried it at the foot of the guao.

Orunmila, hearing nothing from Obatalá, had himself read, this Odù came out, and he told Eshú to put on three parrot feathers and go out with Shangó. On arriving and seeing the epidemic, Shangó threw himself at the mouse and gave Obatalá his head back; then he set fire to Aguema's secret, and Eshú, disguised as a woman with the feathers and the beads, drew the lovesick Aguema in and caught him. Orunmila made Obatalá an ebbó, singing «Iku forudede, Iku nafo», and Eshú threw it out at the foot of the cotton tree, where it began to rain. That is how the defiling of what is sacred was born, and the mouse's leptospirosis.