The allied tribes invaded the town of Osumo; Beko Bense showed his power by eating a whole ram and a bunch of plantains alone, drawing water in a basket full of holes and splitting a plantain fiber with his spear; he killed the four invading chiefs with his spears and put out with the water from the basket the fire with which they meant to destroy the town.
Ebbó: two akukó, abó, two adié and a turtle, three plantains, a fiber from a plantain trunk, a spear and a basket, water from the river, a burning ember, dirt from the house and from the woods, owó medilogun.
There was a warrior with fame like no other in his time. In a clash with the neighboring tribe, that man —named Ngema Eshugo— killed one of the main chiefs of the other side. The dead man's brother took command of the tribe and from that day he had no other idea in his head than to destroy the powerful town of Osumo.
He looked for support among the best known warriors of the friendly tribes and he got it: the feared Ekang Ngomo, of the Bisha Bifos tribe, joined him; Buere Sue Sue, of the Esheg tribe; and the very well known Ohomombue, of the Obang tribe, and N-Nanlel Milak, of the Yebon family.
Four days later, each one leading his own troops, they came together to draw up the battle plan, and with that the great offensive against Osumo started. They set up camp near Ngema Eshugo's town and, as custom required, they sent messengers with the warning that, if there was no surrender within a short time, they would come in and loot by force.
The news went around Osumo, and a warrior of remembered fame, Beko Bense, gathered the people and promised to face the invasion by himself. Besides his skill with weapons, Beko Bense was famous for the wonderful secrets he had in his power. Since the people listened to him without believing, he wanted to show what he had and he did these tests. He asked them to bring him one of the biggest abó, a bunch of the finest plantains, a turtle and a pot big enough. He shut himself in a house, with nobody to keep him company and a guard at the door, and there he prepared the ram and the bunch; he ate them that same night and no trace was left of such a banquet. Unbelievable was the shock of those who came in at dawn.
Then he asked for a big basket and they all went down to the river. He sank the basket and lifted it full, without a single drop escaping through its countless holes. With that water he ordered everyone to wet their arms and legs, and the crowd did as he said, already convinced that this powerful man would hold off the invasion alone. He went even further: he took a very fine plantain fiber, stretched it across the middle of the street tied up high from one end to the other, moved a good distance away and threw his spear at it, which split it into two exactly equal halves.
The next day the invasion arrived and it was stopped by the thick fence that surrounded the town. Olofonbue demanded that Beko Bense open the gates; he answered that first they had to move back a safe distance. The invaders did it, and Beko Bense opened one of the narrow passages, where barely one person fit across. When they tried to go through one by one, the four foreign chiefs at the front were pinned from far away by spears, aimed with the same accuracy with which he had split the plantain fiber. That is how the chiefs of the invasion died. The warriors who were left ran to the forest and, thirsty for payback, seeing that they got nowhere with weapons, they decided to set the town on fire and escape.
When night fell they carried out their plan, but Beko Bense, using the water that the basket held, put out the flames that were going to finish the town and defeated those who wanted to destroy it.
Maferefun Shangó, Kaferefun Oshún. This road is about the great power of Shangó and his union with Oshún.