Otrupon Baraife

The santos agreed on a council for the good of humankind and invited Orunmila, but that council was held in Ife, a place very far from where Orunmila was.

Orunmila walked so far that his feet swelled and he had to sit down; but the goat, seeing him, offered to carry him. Orunmila climbed onto the goat, and that way they reached Ife.

But it happened that to go into the council it was required to give blood at the door; and since Orunmila had brought no animal, at that moment he thought of the goat who had carried him there and who came in handy. He took hold of him, and the goat begged him, saying: «After doing you a favor, you pay me by taking my life.» And Orunmila answered that there was no other way, because his presence at the council was greatly needed to set humankind right, but that he would always live grateful to him; and right after that he killed the goat.

Note: that is why, when four-legged animals are sacrificed to the oshas, herb is put in their mouths, saying: «Oloweweo eran orisha owaweo».

When Orunmila's wife was pregnant, he went to a spot in the country, and there was a peanut field, and his wife wanted to eat peanuts. She went down to where the peanut field was and began digging; and the one who guarded the field was the goat, and he saw Orunmila and said: «What are you doing there?» And Orunmila told him he was on his own land.

The goat answered that he was not, that they were stealing peanuts. Orunmila told him to keep quiet, that he was going to give him a share; so the goat let him be, and it started off well.

But then Eshu appeared and asked: «What is going on?» And Orunmila told Eshu, cast, and said: «Olofin's daughter is ill.» And every doctor went to cure her and none of them got it right; then Eshu told Olofin that an old man had arrived a short while before, and that he could cure her.

So Olofin sent for him, and Orunmila went and set out ebbó; and while he was making ebbó, he asked for ekó and took it. Orunmila asked whether it was right, and he was told it was not, and he sent for Olofin and asked whether he had a piece of land; and that to save his daughter, he had to bring him the man with the goat, the one with the red cap, and one who shouted like Santa Bárbara, and he put bread in their mouths so they would not speak.

Note: that is where it comes from that the santos eat animals like goat and rooster.

Orunmila lived with Oyá and disobeyed Ifá. On one occasion they were heading for a certain land, but on the road their food ran out; and when Oyá got hungry, she threw herself on the ground and refused to walk any further. Orunmila said to her: «Come on, Oyá, let us keep going, we will find something to eat.»

They went on their way, and a little further along Oyá spotted a yam field and pointed it out to Orunmila, so he would steal some yams. Orunmila went into the plot, but the owners saw him and accused him of theft, and took him to jail.

While Orunmila was in prison, he lamented it, since it had been because of Oyá, and he said that he would live with her no more. Orunmila made an osode and this Ifá came up, which marked him ebbó, but Orunmila had nothing to make it with.

At mealtime they brought him a plate of soup, and it had a piece of bone in it. Orunmila took it, and also lime from the wall; then he scraped it, and with the lime on the plate and the bone, which he took as his irofá, he made ebbó and threw it into the prison's rubbish bin.

Eshu, who was the sweeper, when he saw this said: «This is Orunmila's doing, he must be in jail.» He walked on and met Elegba, and told him: «Orunmila is in jail.» At which Elegba went to see him, and Orunmila told him he could not stay there any longer; and Elegba told him that at night he should get into the rubbish bin and cover himself with the rubbish.

The next day they took the rubbish bin out to the street; Elegbara, waiting, pulled him out of the bin, and the two of them left that land and the country around it. A short while later, in the jail, they began looking for Orunmila and realized what had happened; and from that moment on they made a spike to stab inside the rubbish bin before taking it out to the street, so nobody else could escape. And once Orunmila was out of the prison, he never joined with Oyá again.