Olofin once called all the hunters together. He wanted to know which of them would take charge of capturing the iñagui, the monkey with nine tails. Ode, a famous archer whom many envied, accepted at once, without reflecting.
Already on the road, he understood the trouble he had gotten into and went to Orunmila. When Orunmila consulted, this Odù came out, and he explained that Ode had pledged his word. To be able to keep it, he had to make a rogación of the head and prepare an ebbó. It contained spoiled meat, along with corn and ekó that had gone bad. It also called for an arrow, a stick, a rope, a box and a clay pot.
Seven days later, what was in the pot was already rotten. Ode dressed in his uniform and twisted his cap to one side. He smeared his whole body with that paste, went to the hill and lay on the ground as if he were dead.
The smell attracted a monkey. Noticing that the man did not even move, it concluded he was dead, tasted the food in the pot and climbed onto him, singing a tune. Little by little other monkeys of the troop joined in, more and more relaxed and careless, and they remarked to each other that the man was dead and so rotten that he already had worms. In the end the one who ruled them all, the one with nine tails, came near and did the same.
That was when Ode leapt upon the king. His cry made the whole troop run away. The king begged to be released and offered him great riches, but the archer was not persuaded. He tied him up and took him before Olofin. Olofin, astonished, greeted him with moforibale and gave him his ashé. He made him King of the Hunt and steward of the palace, and Ode also ended up married to Olofin's daughter.
Promising lightly binds the one who promises, but ebbó and patience make it possible to fulfill what seemed impossible. Whoever waits with cunning can do more than the overconfident.
First, a rogación of the head. The ebbó includes rotten meat, rotten corn and rotten ekó. In addition, an arrow and a stick, a box, a rope and a clay pot. The food in the pot is left for seven days, until it spoils.
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Ojuani shedi ode akofa iñangui lodonile olofin lodafun pogo ninele lodeni adifafun ode oba ashe.
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