The old Awó Oshere Igbó, near death, was looked after only by his youngest student, who cleaned his house, cut his firewood and fed him. His godfather entrusted him with his secrets, and when he breathed out for the last time, that last breath was drawn in by the youngest, who inherited the ashé without knowing it. Only he could bear the seven hours beside the body; they called him mad, but with patience he became wise, settled the family's chaos and was able to initiate his godfather's children in Osha and Ifá.
Orunmila consulted Ifá for the old Awó called Oshere Igbó, when he had used up his time on earth and had to go back to heaven. Oshere Igbó had seven children of Ifá and two children of his own blood; since his blood children were still small and he had not been able to initiate them in the cult of Orisha-Ifá, he was in great distress. Six of his students kept him company, but the youngest lived far away and he rarely saw him.
Oshere Igbó said a prayer, and a white parrot dropped a feather onto the lerí of his omó keké of Ifá; the young man knew his oluwo was in trouble and went to see him. When he reached his oluwo's house, everything was dirty and in disorder, and he set about cleaning; afterward he went to the woods and cut firewood to warm his oluwo's bed, and fed him a soup of ewé and igbín.
His godfather took advantage of being alone with him to entrust his children to him with regard to the road ahead, and gave him a secret: at his funeral rites neither salt nor epó could be used for anything, since he was an omó of Babá. Then he breathed out for the last time, and that breath was drawn in by the youngest student: that is how his ashé passed, without the young man knowing it, to the youngest of his students.
The funeral rite came and they sacrificed animals for the meal. When the youngest said to paint the altar of Egun black and not to use salt or epó in the food, they all mocked him, and it turned out that they all ate what was taboo to Egun. As is the custom, each of the godchildren had to stay seven hours alone with the godfather's body to ask for the ashé: every time one of them tried, he almost died, and his face was seen by the others as a skull. The youngest one's turn came, and he did manage to stay the seven hours beside his dead godfather, and remained as the successor to the ashé.
A long time passed and nobody recognized the young Awó's ashé; there were even those who, to belittle him, called him mad. He begged his godfather, who appeared to him in dreams and encouraged him to study Ifá, promising to go with him always so he could carry out his mission of initiating the blood children in the cult of Orisha-Ifá. He had to bear a great deal, until he became wise and disciplined. When the chaos in the family was at its worst, he was called in and managed to settle a number of situations, and that way he earned everyone's trust.
The elders allowed him to take the reins, and he was able at last to bring the children of Oshere Igbó to the land of Osha, and afterward to Ifá, and they became wise and very diligent priests, with great success in Ifá.