Iwori Osa (Iwori Osa · Iwori Osa)

Ebbó: akuko, osiadie meyi, eyele meyi, gbogbo ewe, rice, one stick, omi ile ibu, agada, asho dun dun and fun fun, asho timbelara, a doll with ripped clothing, eku, eya, epo, awado, oñi, obi, itana, ori, efun.

Distribution: one akuko to Elegba and one osiadie to Eshu with their ingredients; one chicken with its ingredients for Oparaldo; ask where the eyele are to go, and the ebbó is for Inle Joro Joro.

Patakín

By this path there were once three men who were at the bank of a river, meditating on their poverty. Just then a rich man happened to pass by there because of his many businesses, and after asking them the cause of their worries, he offered them work on his estate.

The three men accepted, satisfied, on the condition that once the commitment had been fully fulfilled they would recover their freedom, so that each could return to his own country.

Before meeting the man who gave them work, these men had gone to see Orunmila. He made osode for them and saw this Ifa for them, recommending that they had to make ebbó and fulfill [their obligations to] Eshu so that he would not destroy them. But none of the three believed Orunmila's preachings.

Time passed and the three men had fulfilled their work to satisfaction. But when they went to receive their wages, one of them said to the owner of the estate: "Sir, instead of money I would like you to give me a pig," and this was done at once. The other two friends, in exchange, received the stipulated day's wage.

Happy with their earnings, the three reached the town, where one of those who had received his wages bought a pot and the other a sack of rice. With the pig, the pot, and the sack of rice they went to the bank of the river where, some time before, the man who had employed them had found them. Then the one who had bought the pot said: "Why have I spent my money on this pot, if I have nothing to put in it?" The owner of the pig said: "I have a pig, yet I lack the pot to cook it." Then the third spoke and said: "Friends, since you have the pig and the pot and I have the rice, and the three things are worth the same, let us put them together and make our meal with them; no one will be harmed by it."

So the three men did, and when they had the food prepared, the one who had spoken last told the one with the pot to go to the nearby spring to fill the calabashes.

"I will go gladly," he answered, "provided that you do not eat until I return." But as he went to fetch the water, Eshu, who was watching him, whistled at the moment he was about to take the water; and when he tried to find out who had whistled at him, he tripped over a stone and fell into a deep ravine near the spring and died.

When the ambitious companion who had sent him to the spring noticed his delay, he addressed the one who had contributed the pig and made the same request of him. The pig owner did not refuse, on the condition that the one with the rice wait for him before beginning to eat.

When the second man reached the spring, Eshu did the same to him as to the first, and he met the same tragic end.

Meanwhile the one who had contributed the rice was very happy, seeing himself alone before such an abundant feast, which he was going to enjoy without the bother of his companions, and he said to himself: "I will eat meat and rice until I am full." At this Eshu appeared before him disguised as a beggar and asked to eat. Seeing that the beggar did not move, he took a stick to strike him, but Eshu began performing tricks and the man chased him in a swift race over those ravines until he found the end of his own companions.

Note: The estate owner was Eshu, who prepared the destruction of the three men for having doubted the word of Orunmila.