Bagba Oba Ounko Nile was a king who lived in poverty. He had not had children, but he held great power: he was in charge of the door of the light. With it he brought the brightness of the day and, with the moon, he lit the nights.
He went to two diviners, Aiyefilegbe and Orun Yeliwo, to have them consult his fortune. They found this Ifá and told him to do an ebbó. The king did exactly what he was told. The diviners, however, carried the same sign and did not do their own part. Orun Yeliwo had to offer a goat and a hen to Osain, plus a vessel of water and another of liquor. Aiyefilegbe had to offer a goat to Osain, a broom and sixteen bibijagua ants.
At that time a path joined the sky with the earth, and without light it was impossible to travel. The diviners had served the king without making their own offering. Elegba, who watched everything, ruled that this could not be and canceled what the king's ebbó had achieved. The king was left just as before. Not knowing the reason, and hurt because the diviners had not kept their word, he shut himself in his house and withdrew his light from the world.
Life grew shorter. In barely sixteen hours men lost their way, and the earth fell into total darkness. Olofin was frightened, called Elegba, and Elegba told him what had happened, since the sky and the earth cannot speak. Both did their part, but Olorun did not come out and nobody understood why. Three months later the earth was frozen, and crimes, accidents, thefts and betrayals grew every day.
Olofin's mother proposed a way out: to go and talk to the king and try to persuade him. She reached his house, which still had light, and called him. He answered that she must ask Elegba for the light of Olorun, since he had already done his ebbó and had received no children. But she pleaded so much that the king at last allowed the light of Olorun to return to the earth. It rained and everything cooled.
Afterward the king visited Olofin and told him everything. Olofin said that Elegba would settle it, that the diviners were to blame, and that it was best for him to stay in the sky, where he would have a wife and children. Elegba received the king's ebbó, and the king rose up with Olofin and started his family. Thus the light was spread across the whole world.
To take his place on earth the goat was born, like him but smaller, so that it would rule here. A condition was set for the goat so that the king would not be lost: when choosing a mate, to look at the ground and say “modupue aiye,” and at once raise its head toward Olorun and say “modupue Olorun.” That is why the male, when with the female, smells her, touches the earth with his snout and then lifts his head, showing his teeth to the sky.
When someone does not do what is theirs to do, the harm reaches everyone, and more so if it affects the one who guards something essential. Such an offense can leave the world without light. It is mended with respect, good counsel and keeping what was promised.
Orun Yeliwo: a goat and an osaidié for Osain, a vessel of water and another of liquor. Aiyefilegbe: a goat for Osain, a broom and sixteen bibijaguas.
First: popcorn, a felt hat and ewe Ifá (ponasí). Second: water and liquor in separate vessels, and an osaidié. Third: a goat, a broom and sixteen bibijaguas.
Orunmila adifafun ounko bagba nuku lai omo alakisu ayelefilegbe orun yelibo awo ewenifa lebo olesa ozainyin oti omí keninshesi lebo bagba niku.
Elegba orun dundu lokua leri opolopo oñi eku otun olorun eju osi oshupa omo ni orun trawo lodafun aiya lodafun aiye lodafun orun lodafun elegba kaferefun orunmila iya.
modupue aiye ... modupue olorun