He was born to a witch mother who every week tried to sacrifice her husband, and from the cradle he cried at night to interrupt the ritual. With the first offering to the Elders of the Night he saved his father — and his mother did not wake up.
Running from Iyami Oshooronga, Osa Meyi ran toward the womb of the first woman he found — not knowing that he was jumping out of the pan into the fire, because his future mother belonged to the witchcraft cult and was preparing her husband to be offered in sacrifice. From the day he was born, Osa Meyi cried late at night: that was his way of interrupting the ritual against his father. When he grew up, instead of crying he shouted «Iyami Oshooronga!», and his mother would abruptly leave the ceremony.
Called before the witches, the mother explained what was happening, and they ordered her to bring the child to the general assembly, on the day of the banquet where the heads of all the members were served. They served the head of Osa Meyi too, but he did not eat from the goat, because he had not been initiated into the cult.
The next morning, Osa Meyi advised his father — who had been sick for a long time — to serve his head with a goat, because of a dream he had had. Once the sacrifice was done, he asked his mother for a clay pot and oil: he gathered the parts of the goat and the leftover meat, added oil, salt and sand from the ground, and went to leave the pot at the incinerator. That was the first offering made by a human being to the Elders of the Night, and that is how it is made to this day. Everyone went to sleep; the next day his mother did not wake up, and his father was healed. That is why some people call Osa Meyi a witch — but he never was one: he could meet with the witches without belonging to their cult.