For saving an antelope in someone else's trap from rotting, the landowner gave him a leg: the free hand to prosper. A farmer ruined by animals, he sacrificed to Eshú, who set invisible traps — and from the boa he killed on the road he got fame and fortune.
Before leaving heaven, Okana Meyi made a sacrifice and came down by a different route from the one planned. On the way he found a homestead with a trap where an antelope was starting to rot; he cut it up and got a fire ready to save the meat. The owner, understanding what he had done, thanked him and gave him one of the animal's legs — the part the priest of Ifá takes to this day when he sacrifices. That is why they say Okana was given a free hand to prosper.
In the world he became a farmer, but animals were eating his crops. Through divination he made himself a tunic with pockets full of kolá nuts, cleaned himself with a chicken, took a staff and gathered earth from two hills and from the eaves of his house to call on Eshú. Once calmed, Eshú set invisible traps around the farm that caught the intruders one after another, and Okana prospered on top of that by selling the meat.
When he was widowed of his first wife — who turned out to be a witch, and whose guardian angel would not let her have children — he decided to move. He sacrificed a goat to Eshú, a pig to Ifá, and travelled with two dogs and sixteen packets of cold bread. Halfway there, a mysterious boa — the one that swallowed the travellers on that route — attacked and ate his dogs; weakened, Okana killed her with a stake. That deed made him famous and prosperous, and in the town they gave him several women in marriage.