Awó Falake, a poor hunter, saw from the Iroko how the deer opened the earth by praying to the Sun; his protecting Egun taught him to do the same and he grew rich, but his greedy wife followed him and almost died among the horns of the Agbáni.
Prayer: Oshe Paure Adifafun Ode Mashede Omiwa Ese Iroko Agbani Loyu Kaure Olorun Aladura… Lodafun Orunmila.
Ebbó: euré, adié, deer hair and horn (agbáni), used clothes, dirt from a joro joro, an arrow, all kinds of food and opolopo owó.
Ode Mashede, whom they called Awó Falake, was omó Oshé Páure and lived without a penny and with nothing to put in his mouth. Apart from divination, he made his living by hunting, and even so need would not let go of him. Desperate, one day he took the only euré he had left and the two adié he still had, gave them to his Ifá, made orugbó and went to leave the ebbó at the foot of Iroko, placing it up high. Once up in the tree, he could see a herd of agbáni — deer with huge, heavily branched horns — at the bottom of a hole open in the ground. The animals raised their eyes to the Sun and out of their magic came this prayer: "Alay Eda Olorun Oba Arini Orode Ki Olorun Masheye Okarin Oloyo Ebinpa Ona". That was when Olorun looked out and showed them the way.
Awó Falake already had his arrow ready to shoot at them when the Obá Egun Oluyeke, his defender and adviser, came close and spoke in his ear: "Have you noticed that the agbáni open the door of the earth with a prayer to the Sun? Do the same and you will be rich." He came down from the Iroko and, since the deer had already gone, he prayed to Olorun himself. Olorun listened to him and opened the earth: inside there were cloths, gold and precious stones, and he took some of everything. But the Obá Egun Oluyeke warned him that he could not tell a word of it to anyone.
He gave his obiní a roll of cloth. She wanted to know where it had come from and he kept quiet, however much she pushed. The agbáni, meanwhile, noticed that someone had gone in there: "What a bold man! What power must he have to get Olorun to go with him?"
One day, taking advantage of her husband's absence, the obiní got his travel sack ready, filled it with ash and made a little hole in the bottom. Awó Falake carried the sack without suspecting anything and went out hunting; the ash left the trail and she followed him deep into the bush. He got to his Iroko and climbed up; she crouched below, among the bushes. As soon as the agbáni came out, Awó Falake prayed to Olorun, went in through the hole, loaded up more cloths, gold and diamonds, and left. She repeated the same steps, but she stood there dazed looking at the treasures; just then the agbáni came back, seized her and tied her with vines to a jagüey tree, next to the mouth of the hole.
Not finding her at home, Awó Falake waited for her; on the third day he went out to look for her. The agbáni had already decided to kill her and came out with her between their horns. He saw her, aimed at the leader of the herd and killed him; the rest ran away. He rescued his obiní, gave her back to her family and told them: "She is greedy and indiscreet, and she wants to know what she should not." Awó Falake became very rich, because the agbáni were omo Eruwá and did not go back to where they had been frightened; he kept the treasure and that power of Olorun, granted by Orunmila and by the Obá Egun Oluyeke.
Note: it is not good to live with a know-it-all and greedy woman, because that holds you back.