Odi Okana (Odi Kana)

Oba Kete had a good position and was not happy in it, always angling to be made a superior, until his boss noticed and dismissed him, leaving him in a bad way. He went to the house of Awó Inshola, a very kind-hearted man, who saw this Odù for him and told him: «You are a deeply ungrateful man; once you are doing well you will not remember me and will thank me for nothing. But no matter, I will make you the ebbó». Oba Kete made the ebbó and began to do business, until he was very proud of his money, with never a thought for the Awó who had helped him.

A long time later, Oba Kete remembered Awó Inshola's words and thought: «How right he was; I am going to show him my gratitude». But he went to the Awó's house and set fire to it on all four sides. Seeing himself surrounded by the flames, Awó Inshola looked out of a window and saw Oba Kete walking away; he prayed to Olorun, who sent a heavy downpour and put the fire out before he was burned. When Oba Kete found out that he had been saved, the shock drove him out of his mind. That is how the ungrateful are paid.

Obatalá handed his son Layebe Omo Lalara to Elegba and his son Ifa Yewa to Shangó, so they would set them on their road, and they went to live in the land of Oni Fawa: Ifa Yewa at the top of the hill and Layebe at the bottom. When Obatalá went to visit them, Ifa Yewa marked the road for him with cascarilla and snails, while Layebe poured hot water to kill them; but Ifa Yewa poured cold water with cascarilla, and not all of them died. At the meal, Layebe put palm oil on Obatalá's food thinking it would annoy him, but Obatalá was pleased.

Afterward Obatalá called Layebe aside and cursed him: «From this moment on, nothing but envy grows in you; a time will come when you are left alone». To Ifa Yewa he let loose some mice, telling him not to kill them, that they would be his salvation, and he gave him his blessing. Layebe went to an omologu to be rid of his brother, digging a hole under the hill with lamps; but Ifa Yewa put the lamps out with water, and the mice bred in the tunnels. Frightened, Ifa Yewa dreamed he should go to Obatalá and Shangó, and he ran to them. It rained for three days, the hill came down, and Layebe and the sorcerer died while they were doing an evil work with palm oil. Obatalá said: «This is what happens to every envious man», and ordered that Ifa Yewa should never live upstairs again.

Awo Mosara Kiku was obedient to his father's Eggun and to Elegba, and Shangó protected him; he had a brother, Awo Abiti, who boasted of being able to destroy and held power over the Eggun Tente Orun, calling him at midnight. Elegba went to see what Abiti was up to; at 4 in the morning he rang his little bell, and Tente Orun rendered him moforibale and told him what Abiti was using him for. Elegba made him swear he would obey Abiti no longer, and Tente Orun agreed, but on condition that he first keep the promise he had already made. Then Abiti got Elegba drunk with food and drink, and Elegba accepted it all happily until, once outside, he realized he had been tricked.

Elegba ran to Awo Mosara and told him to make ebbó and a paraldo meta with three young roosters and three guinea fowl, setting three gourds of food out in the town and dressing himself in three hides, so that when Abiti sent Tente Orun, the Eggun would find food and not destroy. When Tente Orun arrived and ate, Elegba sang to him with the little bell; the Eggun ran out, rendered him moforibale, and they both wept. Elegba told him: «Awo Mosara lives here, a man who does nothing but good and lives poor, and you were coming to do him harm; you will go with Agueday and spread through the world, and you will harm only whoever deserves it. You were going to serve for good, but since you tricked me, you will serve for Ofo alone».