The land of Osa Rete Nifa Inle Okun Fekun Dudu was the land of volcanoes: fire lived beneath it, nothing grew, and everything born died. The earth spent its time cursing and complaining, until it was nearly mud in the shape of a person. Olofin sent it ashé so it could ask, and sent Osa Irete to understand it: «it has to be divided». Shangó dressed himself in lightning and thunderbolts and divided the black earth (Inle Okun Fekun Dundun) from the red (Inle Okun Fekun Pupua); the wind cleaned it, and Olofin let the water loose: it rained, the earth was washed clean of all its wicked creatures, and it produced okra, corn and grain; cotton, the ceiba and the coconut were born, and some of the creatures became animals and the rest people. But Olofin told the earth: «now you see how ungrateful you are: you will always have to live complaining and enslaved — there will be earth under the water, which will be the strength that holds you up». The only Saints left on it were Obatalá, Elegba and Shangó.
The land of the volcanoes was called Osa Rete Nifa Inle Okun Fekun Dudu: under its soil lived the fire, no crop came out of it, no being managed to live there and everything that sprouted there died. Olofin watched it in silence, because that land never stopped complaining and throwing curses at everything. It got to a point where it could not take any more and came close to staying as mud in human shape; that shape fell apart and it was mud again. Olofin then sent it ashé to give it a voice to beg: it opened up in cracks and made sounds, and Olofin could not make out those sounds, though they seemed like a plea for forgiveness, and in them it sang: "Baba kuele ni laure, baba kuele ni lare, modupue baba".
To check whether he understood the same thing as he did, Olofin sent Osa Irete. He got to the land and said: "What my father has said is true," and he went back to where Olofin was and told him: "Father, the land is bad, and what you have heard is very true: it is always cursing. It has to be divided, telling one piece apart from another."
Right away Olofin called Shangó and Yemayá Afefelorun, and told them: "I need you. We have to find a way for Osa Irete to live on the land, and for the land to produce, so that the crops are eaten at the right time, and so that things are left to live as long as they have to live, so that the world can hold itself up." Shangó answered: "I am going to start, but I am going to divide the land." He loaded himself with stones and dressed himself in lightning, thunderbolts and sparks that kept falling on the ground and separating it: he marked the black part and named it Inle Okun Fekun Dundun; he marked the red one and named it Inle Okun Fekun Pupua.
Back with Olofin, Shangó announced: "I already divided the lands." Olofin told him: "I know what you did, but you left the red land dry." Shangó answered: "Because this one will be good for painting different things, and when Afefe Ayé (the wind) cleans the lands, the dust will be carried off and will serve to feed them." With the rain he also sent the wind, which swept the lands; it could not hold the red one down, it kept slipping away and ended up mixing with the dark one. Olofin then sent a funnel cloud and a waterspout to gather up the water and take it upward.
When they reported to him, Olofin ordered: "Let the water go" — and the downpour started. The land was left free of all the bad creatures it held. The first thing it gave was okra (ailá); the second, corn (aguadó); the third, beans (eré). Of the trees, the first to be born was the cotton (oú); the second, the ceiba (aragba); the third, the coconut (obi). Olofin sent it his blessing, and of those creatures one part turned into animals and the other, into people.
The land was happy with all of Olofin's children. He heard it and told it: "Now you see how ungrateful you are; but you will always have to live like this. And this I will never forgive you: there will be land under the water, which will be what gives the strength for you to keep going, or you will never be able to live except by complaining, and as a slave, since that is how you are. I will send all the Orishas to help you live." The Earth did not accept and said no; that is why the Orishas that came down had to go up again. Only three Santos stayed on it: Obatalá, Elegba and Shangó.