An Awó well known in his land had a young servant in his house. One day he called him and told him he would do the osode for him to learn what his destiny was. When the ókpele fell, this Odù appeared. At once the Awó changed his attitude and, furious, drove the young man out of his house.
The servant had no parents or relatives to defend him and did not understand what he had done. He walked toward the countryside, crying. There three figures found him, two men and a big boy: they were Elegba, Ogún and Oshosi. They wanted to know what he was doing alone in such a risky place. They heard his story and asked him to draw on the ground the sign that had come out in the osode.
Elegba looked at it and explained: “With this Odù, the Awó is obliged to consecrate you in Ifá with the much, the little or the nothing that you own. Since you own nothing, it falls to him to pay for everything, and that is why he threw you out. I give you this money. Go and have the osode done by three Awoses and do what they indicate.”
With the three Awoses the same sign came out again, and they entrusted him with a message: “Go back to your godfather and tell him that if he is upset, Olofin is more so. Let him remember the day a tiger was about to kill him in the forest and a hunter, hidden from his eyes, killed the animal with an arrow. That hunter was Olofin, who kept him alive so that when you reached his house, he would make Ifá for you.”
The young man carried the message, and the Awó agreed to consecrate him, but without enthusiasm: he complained about the expense and never passed on a single teaching. From then on his health broke down and his relations with the orishas and with the neighbors became complicated until his death. At that very moment the godson took the Awó's place in that land and ended up as Obá of that place.
When this Odù points to an obligation, it must be fulfilled with whatever one has, whether much, little or nothing. Whoever fulfills it unwillingly loses health and good dealings, while the needy one whom Olofin guided ends up taking the place of the one who rejected him.