Orunmila, who was also called Okonron Tutu, was a merchant and planned to come down to the world with that trade. Before leaving he consulted and five works were indicated to him. First: a goat for Eshu. Second: a rat, an eagle and a vulture, meant for his head and his Guardian Angel. Third: the union of the three roads, with four doves and white cloth; in it the priest must also take a bath. Fourth: the blessing of God, for which a dove and a cloth were needed, both white, along with cascarilla and parrot feathers. Fifth: Olokun, who would be served with one of the doves mentioned before. They warned him that the order was important: first Eshu, because obtaining the eagle and the vulture depended on his help, and then Ogún, with a dog.
Eshu spoke with the eagle and persuaded it to lower its flight toward a place where finding food was easier; then he moved Ogún to aim at it. The eagle was eating plantains on a farm when the hunter brought it down and carried it to Okonron Tutu. Eshu also convinced that hunter to kill a vulture by the sea, and it too reached the hands of Okonron Tutu. It was hard work for Ogún: he was not used to the coast and came down with a cold. Orunmila lit a fire for him and gave him a turtle, and so he got better.
With the eagle and the vulture gathered, Okonron Tutu added the rat and served his head and his Guardian Angel. Then he carried out the other works and asked Olokun to go with him to earth. Olokun refused, although he promised to send someone to accompany him, on the condition that he not leave her forgotten down there. In this way Okonron Tutu set out together with the representative of Olokun.
Once on earth, each one went their own way and neither recognized the other. He took up trade without great fortune and could not manage to marry. She, off the course that her destiny had set for her, gave herself over to laziness. He decided to consult Ifá and was told to serve Eshu, Ifá and his head; the Awoses prepared a medicine for him inside a calabash and bathed him in the river. Afterward he returned to his trade: he sold coral beads at the market.
She also went to consult, to learn how to find a husband. She was told to serve with a goat, beads and a dove, and that the man had to be an Awó. Before going to the market she served Eshu with the goat; there she was looking for the beads and the dove to tend to her head, and the beads were precisely the ones Okonron Tutu sold.
As soon as he saw her, he was smitten, and she felt drawn to him. Orunmila told her how much the beads cost, and she answered that she had nothing to pay for them. Even so, he convinced her to go with him to his house to perform the ebbó there. Once there, he set out the dove and the beads and tended her head. Since custom forbids anyone who is serving her head to go out, she had to stay for the night. They slept together and had relations.
That night Orunmila had a dream: Olokun scolded him because he had not approached sooner the woman he had sent to accompany him on earth. The owner of the waters made it clear that the one sleeping at his side was that envoy and the wife meant for him, and asked for an ebbó for himself, with a dove, cascarilla, cowries, parrot feathers and everything that is offered to the sea.
On waking he consulted Ifá, who confirmed that the dream was true and that he must do what had been asked of him. He waited no longer: he took the woman as his wife and soon she became pregnant. Later his business prospered, and the two lived happily and in good health forever.
When this path comes out in the Igbodu, the person must receive Olokun. If he is single, the next woman who approaches him will be his destined wife; if he is already married, he will meet a daughter of Olokun once he has been initiated into Ifá. In an ordinary consultation, the advice is to give a goat to Eshu and send the customary gifts to the sea or the river with a dove, since Olokun wants to give him a present.