His Guardian Angel gave him the choice between physical strength and Ifism, and marked him sacrifices to Death and to Eshu: he refused both and boasted that neither Death nor Eshu could touch him. Both sent wrongdoers with him: Death a man, Eshu a woman. He married the beautiful woman; the son born to them was Death's rogue. The son denounced his father to the king for human sacrifice — Eshu had left skulls and bodies at the back of his house — and the father, with no defense, was condemned. The king then called the son in: «if you gave away your father, you will give me away too» — and both were executed the same day.
Before leaving heaven, his Guardian Angel made him choose: he would come to earth with the strength of the body or with the practice of Ifism. He also told him to attend the divinity of Death if he wanted a long life, and marked him a goat for Eshu, a club and red cloth; he refused to give it. They then offered him a shorter way out, only the goat for Eshu, and he did not want that either. On top of that he bragged that neither Death nor Eshu had any way to touch him. When he left heaven the two offended ones sent criminals after him: one was a man, sent by Death; the other, a woman, sent by Eshu. Down below he worked as a priest of Ifá, though people knew him for what he did with force: against what Ifism teaches, he threw hard, diabolical spells on anyone who offended him. Soon after he ran into the woman Eshu had sent. She seemed beautiful to him, he wanted her from the moment he saw her and it did not take long for him to marry her. In the first month of marriage she was expecting, and the boy she gave birth to was exactly the crook Death had put in his path.
The boy grew up watching how everyone stayed out of his father's way out of fear, and he himself became a strong, feared young man, initiated into the king's palace society. His father's cruelty disgusted him, so time and again he went to the king to accuse him of sacrificing human beings: he had come across some skulls and some bodies that Eshu, without a sound, had left at the back of the house. The king had the father brought in and opened an investigation, and out of it came two bodies that had been executed recently. Okonron Idi had no way to explain them: he saw them for the first time as he was already leaving for the palace, and right there he fell under a spell. Before the throne they accused him of human sacrifices; he, understanding nothing, denied charge after charge, but since he had no defense he was sentenced to death and they tied him up to execute him. Right away the king sent for the son and made him see that whoever hands over his own father would hand him over too; that is why he sentenced him as well. Father and son were executed on the same day. In Igbodu the special sacrifice is ordered at once: the clay images, the goat, the red cloth and Ogún's scissors, with service to Death at a crossroads. It is done to reach a long life, so the son does not kill the father and so you do not commit a murder or carry one done in your name. And whoever has children should know that there is one looking at him with bad eyes.