Iwori Ose (Iwori Ose · Iwori Ose)

Rezo: IWORI BOSHE BOSHIBO FUN KELIBA NA ENA KUATI KIKE SHOBI NI KIKE OBA MALE ODUSHE.

Ebó: palm boards, wild cane, yam vine, stones, akuko, eyele meyi.

I make the ebó so as not to meet the road of death. May it move away and return no more.

I make the ebó so as not to fall and receive hard blows. Thank you.

PATAKIN:

In the land of Ifa there was a king who had many businesses of importance and had a friend named Alayebi, who was the one who practically governed.

The monarch had many slaves, and there was one who did not agree with what Alayebi was doing with the king's family.

When the king died he left three small children, one daughter, the eldest, and two sons, and Alayebi remained at the head of the kingdom at the death of the sovereign.

Time passed and the siblings had already grown and become men and a woman respectively, and one day the slave called the daughter and told her that he did not agree with Alayebi's way of governing, and he told her the manner in which he had done business with her deceased father and the authority he had imposed over the king.

And it happened that Alayebi, seeing the beauty of the king's daughter, proposed to marry her, but she did not accept, and then in vengeance Alayebi gave her almost nothing for her support and that of her brothers.

The slave, seeing the situation that surrounded the siblings, said to the young woman: "Do not cry any more; Olofin will take charge of doing justice."

At night the slave went to see Ozain, telling him what he thought to do, and Ozain said yes. Alayebi in turn, seeing how the slave was with the siblings and the influence he had on the girl, began to treat him more harshly, assigning him the hardest work.

One day Alayebi ordered the slave to fix his room up high in order to put his secret there, and the slave made him the board platform of palm boards, and he made the crossbeams of the thinnest wild cane he found and tied them with yam vine. This vine he had planted where he had his Eshu. Then beneath the platform he placed a great quantity of stones left by the monarch, with which he did business before dying.

On the seventh day of doing the work the slave went to the riverbank and there he performed a rogación for his head (leri), and the next day he informed Alayebi that he had already finished the work, and when Alayebi went to inspect the work, with the weight of his body he made the platform give way and fell from the height headfirst onto the stones, dying instantly.

The king's daughter assumed the headship of the government and of the palace and gave freedom to this slave, who as long as he lived was her faithful counselor.