After the creation, the divinities ran to heaven to ask for the tools of prosperity. The reading marked them a sacrifice of ordinary things — corn cake, sugarcane, bean pudding and a whisk — and they judged it unnecessary; only Orunmila sacrificed, adding a goat to Eshu, whose hide was made into a drum for him. Elenini, the guardian of the treasury, turned into a furious cripple, took the load off every one of them on the road home. Orunmila, the last, gave him the honey, the cane, the corn bread and the pudding: while the cripple ate, Eshu played the drum, the cripple danced with the whisk and turned back toward heaven — and Orunmila came down as the only divinity who enriched the earth.
When God finished creating the earth, the divinities realized that they were naked and that without the good things of life that world would not be livable. They all went up to heaven to ask God for the instruments that make the stay down here a happy one. Before setting out they got a reading, and the verse of the diviners said that life burns firewood and drinks through its mouth until its thirst is put out, and that it is a tough porcupine, able to shout like a man from the bottom of the anthill. The marking was clear: corn cake, sugarcane, bean pudding (moyin moyin) and a small broom (oroke). Once outside the Awoses' house they started to argue. It seemed odd to them that some force would ask for an offering when God, so willingly, had already promised them the gifts; they decided it was unnecessary, and they did not even notice how cheap and ordinary the materials asked for were. Orunmila was the only one who said he would make the offering: shortly before, God himself had shown them that destructive forces can snatch away their fortune if nobody calms them. The others laughed at him and called him "the father of sacrifice". Orunmila gathered what was asked and did it, and on his own he added a goat for Eshu, because he knew that without that support he would not get far. The Awoses gave him the corn cake, the cane, the honey and the pudding to carry in his bag, with the instruction to give them to Elenini; and with the goat's skin they made him a little drum for the trip.
God set only one condition: each one could take from the treasury whatever he was able to carry to the base. Elenini, who guarded that treasure, took the shape of a furious cripple and came out at every divinity on the way back; one by one he took away what they had collected and returned it to the base. Just as he had been warned, Orunmila set out on the way back last. When he ran into the cripple he stopped at the door and announced to that frightful creature that he had brought gifts for him: he gave him the honey first, then the sugarcane and right after the corn bread and the bean pudding. And while the other was busy eating, Eshu appeared and told Orunmila to start playing the drum with the song "Aro oludena gburu, ki ejo aro oludena", which announced his coming down to earth carrying the good things that make a life happy. To the beat of the song, the cripple picked up the small broom for Orunmila and started to dance; then Eshu snatched the drum away and beat it harder, the cripple turned back toward heaven and Orunmila went on his way. That is how he was the only divinity who managed to enrich the earth with the instruments of prosperity. In Igbodu: whoever does not make an offering will see obstacles close off his destiny and what he left asked for in heaven. In an ordinary reading: the man must make Ifá; the woman, marry a Babalawo or convince her husband to receive it.