Eshú Larufa, son of Inle and Ikú, suffered at having none of his parents' powers. Oyá bathed him, had him swap his parents' hen and coconut, and handed him the virtues; he transfigured into man and woman, and became great.
Eshú Larufa was the son of Ikú and Inle. From a small child he saw his parents' great powers: Inle would pray and turn Ikú into a shadow no one could see, and with a hen dundun they would dance, thinking the child was asleep. Ikú rested on a dry coconut that Inle laid under her head, and on leaving would give her that coconut to bury and watch how she turned into different colors, each one with a virtue for the world. Eshú Larufa lived bitter at having no power at all.
He asked leave to go walking and went to the land of Belelé, where Oyá lived, and told her everything. Oyá bathed him with omiero of herbs and handed him a coconut and a black hen, telling him to swap, without anyone seeing, the hen Inle danced with and the coconut that served as her pillow, and to bring it all to her. Three days later, Oyá gave him the blood of the hen, drew out the secret of the coconut and handed it to him. They went before Inle and Ikú, and as Ikú began to tell Inle, she saw her son transfigure into two figures, man and woman. Oyá gave three cries, Inle and Ikú threw themselves to the ground, and she told them: «children are given virtues so they may live free of prejudice and so respect between parents and children may last; you, Inle, will have to respect your son». So Eshú Larufa became great.