Otrupon Di

A corn grower sold his corn cooked. He was the only one with corn and, on top of that, he had a lot of money. He fell gravely ill; he had been told to make ebbó with: 4 sacks of money, a rooster and a hen.

He refused, because rather than four of corn he would sooner put up eight sacks of money; and he got much worse. Then his family, without him knowing, made the offering, and after that the corn was shared out among all the people. Everyone had health, and the grower was the one who went without.

One time a hunter came to Orunmila for a consultation, and this Ifá came out in the reading: if he wanted to keep hunting, he had to make ebbó.

The man followed another faith and did not listen to the advice; the only thing moving him was the wish to take value away from Orunmila. He went out hunting and managed to catch a fine porcupine.

Back in town he went around saying that Orunmila was wrong and that he was not only a liar. His friends then got together and set up a big banquet.

Once they were at the table, the chief, who was an enemy of Orunmila, wanted to humiliate him and sent him the invitation to the party with the commissioner. Orunmila's answer was that, even though the hunter had caught the porcupine, none of the people there would manage to eat it, because the table was going to stay set because of that man's disobedience.

Nobody paid attention to him. By custom, the one who presided had to cut and serve himself before anyone else, and that is what he did: he cut a piece of the animal, served it on a plate and put it in his mouth. As he chewed it, a splinter from the spear they hunted it with stuck into the roof of his mouth; the spear had broken and a piece had stayed inside the meat. Blood poured out of the wound, the bleeding could not be stopped and he died on the spot. The others were so frightened that they did not touch their food, and the table stayed set.

When Orunmila's children heard what had happened, they held another party and went out singing: the word of Orunmila never falls to the ground.

Note: the one who put the porcupine in the hunter's hands, to punish his disobedience, was Eshu-ni.

Manduley had Kintoshe as his daughter, and she could not get pregnant; because of that she went to an Awó, who, after looking at her, announced the birth of a baby girl. Time went by and Kintoshe was still not expecting.

One day she ran into that Awó who years before had read her at her father's house, and he asked her for news of him. She answered: "I have not heard from him in a long time." The Awó then suggested: "Let us examine Orunmila to see if Ifá says what I said the first time." He took the okpele, put it in Kintoshe's hands and this Ifá came out, and with that Orunmila confirmed what he had said.

Afterwards the Awó fell in love with Kintoshe; she loved him too and got pregnant. He went back to the osode and checked that the child to be born was a girl, and right away they set out for her father's house. When he saw them arrive, Manduley asked in surprise: "What is this?" The Awó gave him the explanation: "This is your daughter, who is also my wife; she is pregnant with a girl, and that will be your happiness, your daughter's and mine." Manduley warned him: "If you do not prove that, you will lose your head."

Nine months later the girl was born, and the Awó's word was proven; that is why Manduley handed Orunmila the front of his government, and made the granddaughter a princess. Lodafun Orishaoko.