Irosun Oyekun (Iroso Yeku · Ìrosùn Òyèkú)

Opening rezo (preserved verbatim):

REZO: IROSO KALEKU KOSI AWO EFI ABE LALA BALE LELE MAKADA KUARERE IFA ONI BARABANIREGUN AWO KAYEDI IFA KERERE AWO OMAYE BAIYE IKU IROSO KALELU AWO MAYABA, IKU MAYABA, IKU OBA KOLOYE, AWO OBAKOLOYE KO YENERIFA INLE AKUA URO ABEYEKU IROSO KALEKU EFIA OBA KOLOYE IFA, MAFEREFUN ORUNMILA, SHANGO, ELEGBA.

Ebbó: adie dun dun; apoti; malaguidi; osiadie; obi; gbogbo asho; oti leke; eku; eya; epo; akanshero inle; opolopo owo.

Note: On this path, when the Shadow (Awo Oba Koloye) is called, a moyugba is made in order to give it adie; it is done with this call:

IBA IKU OREO BAYEBEIKU UNLO BAYEBEIKU IKU BALAYE BEIKU IKU OLORUN BAYEBEIKU IKU OLORUN.

Patakín:

In the land Reyenere Ifa Inle lived Awo Oba Koloye, who had the power of the Shadow to save from Iku all his children who lived in that land.

Awo Oba Koloye swore them in his great secret so that Iku would not see them; his father Awo Koloye had handed this great secret down to him. Iku did it with adie dun dun for everyone who came to swear to Awo Koloye: she seated him in an apoti (a chair) and sang:

AKUADA OBA YEIBEYE IKU AKUADA OBA YEIBEYE IKU AKUADA OBA YEIBEYE IKU IKU LELEO KUADA OBA YEIBEYE IKU.

The adie dun dun was killed behind the apoti, and what was left on the chair disappeared.

Iku went from time to time to visit the land Yeyere Nifa Inle, and when she arrived there she found only the apoti and the adie dun dun; and Iku became furious and haughty, and pressed her own head, because she could not find Awo Oba Koloye either, who by the virtue he possessed had turned into a black shadow that Iku confused with the night, and so she found no one. Iku left there very disgusted, because the only land where she found no one was the land of Awo Oba Koloye.

One day she went to visit Olofin and did not find him either. She left there very disgusted, and along the way she went singing:

" ELEGBA NANIRE IKU ELEGBA NANIRE IKU IKU LOGUA".

Elegba, who was coming along the road, saw Iku and presented himself to her, asking her what was happening to her, and Iku told him what was going on. Elegba, who was disgusted with Awo Oba Koloye because on a certain occasion he had asked him for an osadie and he had not agreed, said to Iku: "Come with me, for we are going to gather several awoses so that they send for Awo Oba Koloye."

Elegba and Iku left together for the land Delele Awo Makuaba, and there they gathered with the other awoses. This was the land where the father of Awo Oba Koloye lived, who, having learned what had happened, sent for his son with Elegba. Oba Koloye went with Elegba but was displeased, and when he arrived at the land Delele Awo Makuaba he met his baba Awo Oba Yeibeye Iku, who called his son Iku aside, and speaking with him, he scolded him and said: "You should have given the osiadie to Elegba, and every time you did kuaraldo of the secret that I commanded and taught you, which is yours, you should have buried the adie dun dun at once in a joro joro so that Iku would not have picked up the trace of anything and would know nothing of your secrets. Now you will have to be a slave of Iku, for not having done things as I taught you; you wanted to know and do more than I, and now you will serve as punishment, and you will have to make an oath with Iku."

Then Awo Oba Yeibeye Iku made Iku and the children kneel before the other awoses and said to them: "Do you swear that you will accept the pact forever?" And they swore.

Then Awo Oba Yeibeye Iku said to his son: "You will have great power over Iku, and every time you bury an osiadie in joro joro and thus save some of your children, you must come out before Iku to indicate to her what you want her to unyén."

Iku answered him: "Good, but you throw the earth over it." And so the two swore before Awo Oba Yeibeye, Iku, and the other awoses. Then, to make a proof of the oath, Awo Oba Koloye brought an adie and an eyele at once. Iku, who had never eaten animals, ate them this time. "And now you cover them." And so he did.

When Awo Oba Koloye was throwing the earth, he sang:

"IBA KOLOYE IBA KOLOYE IBA KOLOYE IGUA INLE KOLOYE".