Ode promised Olofin, without thinking, that he would bring him the monkey with nine tails. Orunmila saw this Odù for him: «You have given your word» — and marked him the ebbó of the rotten meat. Smeared with it and stretched out on the hill like a dead man, he let the whole troop grow careless and climb on him, until the nine-tailed king arrived: he seized him, tied him up, and Olofin made him King of the Hunt and gave him his daughter.
Once Olofin sent for all the hunters to find out which of them would undertake to bring him the iñagui — the monkey — with nine tails. Ode, famous among the bowmen and envied by everyone, undertook it without thinking. Setting out to keep his word, he saw what he had let himself in for, and went to Orunmila's house; Orunmila saw this Odù for him: «You have given your word; to be able to keep it you must pray your head and make ebbó with rotten meat, rotten millet, rotten ekó, an arrow, a stick, a pot, a rope and a box». After seven days the food in the pot had gone off; Ode put on his hunting clothes, turned his cap to one side, smeared his whole body with it, went up the hill and lay down on the ground, playing dead.
A monkey caught the smell and came up to him; seeing that he did not move, he said «he is dead» and ate from the pot, and climbed on top of him singing «Arin yanya kiya». So the rest of the troop came, more careless and easy every time — «Look, he is dead!», «He is rotten already, he has worms!» — until the monkey with nine tails came, who was the king, and did the same. Then Ode threw himself on him; at the king's cry, the rest ran off. The monkey begged him to let him go, promising to make him very rich, but Ode paid no attention: he tied him up and took him before Olofin, who in astonishment rendered him moforibale, put ashé on him, made him King of the Hunt and steward of the palace — and Ode married Olofin's daughter.