Rule over that town passed from bird to bird, and none of them reached the next year alive. When his turn came, Osa Ure went to be looked at by Orunmila before taking it on: his own Odù came out and marked him ebbó with a goat, a stick his own height, plenty of corojo butter and red cloth. Orunmila handed him the stick smeared with corojo with the order to plant it in the ground, with the goat's head on top and the red cloth underneath. That night Osa Ure settled on the tip of the stick, and the ants that climbed up to bite him while he slept — just as they had done with all the other birds — got stuck in the corojo and died there. That way he was able to hold on to the government for more than a year.
In a certain town rule was in the hands of the birds, but none of them lasted a year alive. When the turn came to Osa Ure, he chose to be looked at by Orunmila before taking it on. His own Odù came out, and Ifá told him to make ebbó with a goat, a stick his own height, plenty of corojo butter and red cloth. He got each thing and the work was done. When it was finished, Orunmila handed him the stick smeared with corojo and told him to bury it, to put the goat's head there and the red cloth underneath.
When night came, Osa Ure settled on the tip of that stick. The ants climbed up to bite him while he slept, just as they had done with the other birds, but they got trapped in the corojo and died there. In that way Osa Ure managed to hold on to the government for more than a year.
Note: the birds' rule did not last more than a year because they spent the night perched on a stick, and the ants climbed up there to bite them until they died. The same story also runs in the figure of a king, a son of Shangó.