Otrupon Guede

Here Oshún, bitten by curiosity, tried to see what Ashikulu was doing; and when she saw what was no business of hers, she got such a fright that she fell into the river unconscious, down to the bottom of it, and was left tangled in the root of the ashibata.

Orunmila that day made osode and this Ifá came up, and he made the ebbó of this Odù, and took it to the river and threw it in.

As Orunmila threw the ebbó, he noticed something moving at the bottom, and he put the irofá into the water, and little by little pulled out the roots of the ashibata; and in one of them Oshún came up tangled, and so she was saved thanks to Orunmila.

Note: if what Oshún orders is not carried out, you die.

On this road, Ikú lived in a land where she never ate; however hard she looked, she found no food. Seeing herself in such a bad state, she went to be read by Ifá, and Orunmila saw this Odù for her, Otrupon Oggunda; Ifá told her that she had to make ebbó, and that after making the ebbó she had to leave that town, and that she should eat only fruit when it ripened.

Ikú, following Ifá's advice, went off to a land where everyone was born ill, and she ate them; and so Ikú was glad, because she had plentiful food.

In that land there was a married couple, and the wife was pregnant; and when she realized she was pregnant, she thought about it and said: «I am going to be read by Ifá.» Orunmila saw this Ifá for her and told her she had to make ebbó.

She left Orunmila's house determined; but having no money to make the ebbó with, she decided to take up a collection among her relatives, and went and had the ebbó made. When it was finished, Orunmila told her she had to take it to the cemetery, and not to look back on her way home. Orunmila asked Onibode to go with her and to stay at her side, and that when the child was born, to protect it so Ikú would not eat it.

When Emule was born, Onibode was waiting so she would not fall ill and would be free of death; but when the relatives learned what the collection money had been for, they all began to protest, and Elegba, who heard it all, took offense and left. The mother said: «What will become of Emule and of me?»

One day, at nightfall, the fever took hold of Emule, and she began to sweat heavily; her body filled with sores and she could not see. Her mother wept and wept to see her in that state. She made up her mind and gathered her relatives to pray to heaven and to call Onibode. They all gathered and prayed to heaven; Onibode said: «This is very good», and took the girl away.

The girl, who was already a maiden, was abikú; and when she thought, her head hurt; she was short-sighted, but she could see at a distance. When she turned sixteen, Onibode said to her: «I am going to take you to where your mother is, but first I will take you to Obatalá's house.» Onibode took Emule (the one condemned to death) to her mother's house, and Ikú could not eat her.

There were a lame man and a blind man who, in the town where they lived, were going through great poverty and need, and were almost dying of hunger.

One day the blind man said to his friend the lame man: «My friend, rather than starve to death here in town, let us go and starve to death in the country.» So the lame man climbed onto the blind man's shoulders, and with a stick in his hand he guided him along the road; and when they reached the bush, they found a dead elephant, and the lame man said to the blind man: «We have found food», and getting down off the blind man's shoulders, he took out his knife and began cutting meat from the elephant and roasting it.

Just then a toad went by; the lame man caught it and roasted it too. When the meat was cooked, the lame man gave the toad to the blind man, telling him it was a piece of elephant, and the blind man set to eating it; and as he chewed the toad, its milk squirted out and got into his eyes, and he got his sight back. And seeing that he was about to eat toad, he said to the lame man: «You scoundrel, you eat elephant meat and you gave me toad to eat.» And right after that he grabbed the stick and gave the lame man a great blow, and the lame man ran off fast, and from that run his lameness was cured.

Note: kashé tutu, the santo speaks through Orunmila. Intori Ikú: if you do not carry out what Eshu orders, you die. Rogation has to be made with all the clothes you have on.