Oyeku Odi (Oyekun Di)

Tertiary item 1. A longer telling that joins the matter of Primary Patakines 7 and 2. Ebbo: a goat, a kid, a rooster, 2 black hens, a dove, smoked hutía, smoked fish, palm oil, coconut, a candle, plenty of money. The Tertiary heads this item Kosi Oleye. (The rezo printed with this item in the Tertiary is an English-sounding machine rendering and is omitted; see the note above.)

On this road the world was bad, and Orunmila said to Olodumare: "I am going to fix it." Olodumare asked him: "When are you going to fix it?" Orunmila did not answer him, and came to the earth.

When he arrived, he found that the women who lived there had never given birth. He asked for lodging in a house and they gave it to him. They asked him: "Sir, what is your name?" He answered: "Oloyu Ekun." Then they asked him: "What is your trade?" He answered: "My trade is to speak." They invited him to speak, and he said to them: "For me to be able to speak, you must all put down money." They put in money, and Orunmila took the okpele and cast it, and this sign Oyeku-Odi came out, and he said to them: "You all live here just to live, eat just to eat, sleep just to sleep, and every one of you has to make ebó (the one indicated above)." Then Orunmila prayed: "The water you drink is the water you will drink." [sic, as in the machine translation]

When they performed the ebó, the women began to get pregnant and all gave birth. The plants began to bear fruit and everything was set right. Orunmila, seeing that everything was already behaving normally, left that land and was gone for a long time without hearing of it, and then went back up to Heaven.

Orunmila took a long time to return to the earth. When he came back, the newborns had grown up and had children. When the elders saw him, they wanted to know him, but so much time had passed that they did not recognize him until an old man looked at him closely and asked: "Are you not Oloyu Okun?" He replied: "I myself am." Then the old man called everyone, and the younger ones, to him, and taught them about that man who had made the prayer for the women to give birth and had saved everyone.

Then they began to think, and as they thought, they began to ask him for things. Orunmila replied to them: "That is in the hands of Olodumare, to consider it or not." Everyone became upset and said: "We are going to fight against Olodumare." They told Orunmila that he had to accompany them.

Orunmila performed osode and saw this Ifá Oyeku-Odi, in which Ifá indicated that he should make ebó with a goat and a long rope. The day they went to fetch him to go and fight against Olodumare, Orunmila set out with the goat tied to the rope, and along the way the rope kept getting tangled [the machine translation reads "in the legs. the sticks"]. He would stop to untangle it, and so he fell behind the group. They, tired of waiting for him, went on ahead. When they arrived before Olodumare, he, on hearing them, [ordered them all killed — the machine translation reads "sent them to kill everyone"].

When Orunmila arrived, Olodumare asked him: "What do you need, Orunmila?" He replied: "Baba, I am well and I want nothing; but some men took me out of my house by force and made me go with them, I do not know why, and along the way I fell behind because I did [garbled in the machine translation: "Offer: A goat and a rope (yarako); for I brought this goat"]." Then Olodumare opened the door and showed everyone without a head, and Orunmila in this way was freed.