Oyekun Wori (Piti)

Keta Aboñu (the stomach) and Iñi (the teeth) lived with Inzo (the hair), a trader who went out to work every day and left his obini alone. Taking advantage of his absence, Keta Aboñu courted the woman and offered her food she had never known. When he came back, Inzo wanted to be with his wife, but she refused until he gave her food; he gave her epo and obí — which she had never tasted — and she told him everything that had happened. Inzo, angry, left the house swearing to finish Keta Aboñu.

Elegba heard the threat and warned Keta Aboñu, who went to be read by Orunmila; he saw this Ifá for him and told him only Ifá could save him. On the 7th day, going out, he ran into Inzo, who snatched a secret from him. Keta Aboñu ran and got inside a man's mouth. Inzo, to keep watch on him, placed Iñi (the teeth) in the mouth to bite him if he tried to come out, and placed his own children around the face, in the nose and in the anus.

Since Keta Aboñu carried off the power of life and the secret of Ifá, he must be fed all your life — just as when a babalawo is consecrated. Ever since, if a single hair gets mixed into the food, a man throws up, because Keta Aboñu and Inzo are enemies. And this Ifá says that a man does not leave his wife alone.

A trader, a son of Oshún, had his business in ruins and complained about his bad luck. An old man who came by the place told him to cleanse his house with the herbs of his Iyá Oshún and to scrub the doorway; obeying, he began to prosper until he paid off all his debts and became very rich.

Seeing himself in plenty, he stopped doing what the old man had told him and began to treat him badly, until the old man came no more. From then on the trader went backward and fell into ruin again. Falling ill, he rode out to look for the old man — who was Orunmila. Elegba, to punish his ingratitude, made him believe that a man murdered on the road was the old man; the trader got down, turned the body over to see the face, and stained his hands with blood without noticing.

At that very moment the real murderers were reaching the town to report to the law. The law found the trader confused, with stained hands, arrested him, tried him, and it cost him his life. That is why, when this Ifá comes out, you must not go to see the dead, the wounded or any tragedy, and must not go out into the street for 7 days, so as not to pay for someone else's guilt.

Olofin sent Elegba to bring him Orunmila's head. That same day Orunmila had made osode and this Ifá came out in osobo, speaking to him of loss through Ikú; he made the ebbó (a goat, a rooster, a head of mud, goat's hair and the rest of the ingredients) and set the head of mud behind the door.

When Elegba arrived and asked for the head on Olofin's behalf, Orunmila answered: «take it». Elegba reached in, felt the hair, said «this is the one» and carried it off. Olofin, amazed to see it was made of mud, said: «Orunmila does not have a head of mud... no one can get the better of Orunmila». The head of mud is placed behind the door, and the ebbó is not thrown out until the third day.