Okonron Idi, before leaving heaven, had to choose, as his Guardian Angel put it: to come to earth with the vigor of the body or with the trade of Ifá. He was also warned that, to live long, he had to take care of the divinity of Death, and a red cloth, a club and a goat for Eshu were marked for him. He refused. Then he was offered a shorter option, only the goat for Eshu, and he rejected that too. To make matters worse, he bragged that Death and Eshu could not touch him. When he left heaven, the two offended ones each sent a wrongdoer in pursuit of him: Death, a man; Eshu, a woman.
Once on earth he worked as a priest of Ifá, but people remembered him more for his way of using force. Against what that practice teaches, he cast cruel and wicked spells on anyone who offended him. Not long afterward he met the woman sent by Eshu. She seemed beautiful to him, he fell in love at the sight of her, and he married her soon. When they had been married barely a month, she was already pregnant, and the child she bore turned out to be the rascal Death had placed in his path.
The boy grew up seeing that everyone avoided his father out of fear. He became a sturdy and feared young man, and he entered the society of the royal palace. He rejected his father’s cruelty, so several times he went to the king to denounce him for sacrificing people. He had discovered some skulls and bodies that Eshu had quietly left at the back of the house. The king had the father brought in and ordered an investigation, and two bodies of recently executed people were found. Okonron Idi had no way to explain them; he saw them for the first time on his way to the palace, and right there he fell under an enchantment. Before the throne he was charged with human sacrifice. He understood nothing and denied every accusation, but with no defense he was sentenced to death and tied up for execution. Afterward the king called the son and told him that whoever betrays his own father could betray the king too, and condemned him as well. The two were executed that same day.
Whoever believes himself untouchable and refuses the ebbó he was given meets the envoys of Death and of Eshu. Power used to do harm returns to its owner, and violence inside the home can turn a son against his father.
For Eshu, a goat; also a club and a red cloth, and serving Death. The shorter option was only the goat for Eshu.
When this path comes out, a special Igbodu sacrifice is ordered at once, to reach a long life, to keep the son from killing the father, and not to commit a murder or carry one done in one’s own name. Its detail is in the full treatise.
Whoever has children should know that one of them looks at him with ill will.