Eya Areni (the salmon) and Agbon Oko (the drone) were close friends and great chasers of women: the first longed for Oroyori Oshún, shut inside a mother-of-pearl shell at the river mouth; the second for Agbon Ayaba, the queen of the hive. She asked for sandbanks for her kingdom; the queen, for her crown of wax. Orunmila saw Okana She for them: «a man makes himself a slave for love — make ebbó, or love will sacrifice you for the sake of survival». The salmon made it in full; the drone, unruly and lazy, made it halfway. The salmon carried the sand, Oroyori gave herself to him on the riverbanks and stayed there to live — a slave of love, going up every year to spawn in the river. The drone fertilized his queen — and died, his reproductive organ coming away with his intestines: he died sacrificed for love.
Eya Areni (the salmon) and Agbon Oko (the drone of the hive) were close friends, and both had a name as womanizers: the first sighed for Oroyori Oshún, who lived inside a closed mother-of-pearl shell there where the river runs into the sea; the second, for Agbon Ayaba, queen of the hive. To give her love, Oroyori Oshún demanded that sandbanks be brought close to her kingdom — which was the river — so she could enjoy herself on them as she pleased; Agbon Ayaba, for her part, asked for her crown of wax. Desperate, the two went to Orunmila, who on seeing them brought out this Ifá and ruled: "Okana She — man makes himself a slave for love. You have to make ebbó, because if not, you will find yourselves slaves of love, and love will sacrifice you for the sake of survival". They agreed to do the ebbó to win their women, but only Eya Areni did it in full: Agbon Oko, unruly and lazy as he was, left it unfinished.
Each one came before his beloved with his gifts. When Oroyori saw that Eya Areni was bringing her exactly what she wanted to have, she fell in love with him: she let herself be taken up the river, and on the sandbanks he had carried she gave herself to the pleasures of love and stayed there to live — so that every year Eya Areni must go to the depths of the river, where his own are born, to make love to her. That is the sacrifice of love: Eya Areni, a winner in what he set out to do, was left enslaved to Oroyori Oshún; and Agbon Oko died sacrificed by love — he fertilized the queen and perished, because in the sexual act his reproductive organ comes off, and it comes out with the intestines. From here were born the river sand and the vaginal spasm — the supreme sacrifice of love —, and from here comes the fact that the salmon lives in the sea and goes up the river to spawn. Note: here the Osanyin of the mother-of-pearl is prepared, the one that gives the Awó the power to persuade a woman, and the secret of Oshún Miwa Ilé Bombó.