Okon bam bam, the yam's Awó, read for it when it was coming from heaven: a rooster, white cloth, a machete, candles and a club, so it would not suffer at its enemies' hands on earth. It came into the world without sacrificing — and at the farm the very machete it had refused to sacrifice was waiting: it cut the yam to pieces before it was beaten in the pot, cooked over the fire, put through the pestle and mortar, and ended up in the mouths of human beings, the enemy it was supposed to avoid.
The register was done for the yam while it was coming down from heaven. The mark was clear: a rooster, white cloth and a machete, candles and also a club, all of it so that on earth his enemies would not make him suffer. The yam came into the world without having put down anything.
On the farm, inside his own house, that machete he refused to give as an offering was waiting for him: with it they cut him into pieces, and from there he went to the vessel where they pounded him and to the fire where they cooked him. He still had the mallet and the mortar ahead of him. In the end he ended up in the mouths of human beings, who were exactly the enemy he had to watch out for. In an ordinary register: you have to make an offering if you want to escape the harm of an enemy — for Eshu, a goat, white cloth, a club and candles; for the Night, a rabbit.