Oyeku Ose (Oyeku Ose · Oyeku Ose)

STORY: On this path, Orúnmila arrives at a town and no one was alive. The men and women could not hold a conversation, because they were all dead.

Orúnmila meets Eshu and asks him about the inhabitants of that town, and Eshu answered him that they had died and that he had stayed behind to watch over all of them, being their faithful watchman.

This Eshu is called Eshu-Bode; he lives among the dead and is their guardian and companion.

Eshu-Bode tells Orúnmila to look up above, on the Hill, and when he did so he saw the reflection of Osun and said: "How is that one alive?"

Eshu answers him: "This is the Mighty Trophy of the Great Fallen Kings, and he can never fall."

NOTE: This is where Osun has many children, and it is the birth of the new people. No one can seat him; he seats himself on the head of everyone, ordered by Olodumare.

EBÓ: 1 rooster straight to Eshu, 2 black hens, malva leaves, smoked jutía and fish [jutía y pescado ahumado], toasted corn, everything that is eaten, candle, coconut, bees' honey, a lot of money.

STORY: Olokun, King of Kings, fell ill and turned to all the physicians of the town, but no one could cure him. Meanwhile there was an old man who had arrived in the town, and he learns of the king's illness and goes to the Palace. On arriving he tells the king, in front of everyone, that he is going to cure him, and the physicians, and even the King himself, looked at him with an air of doubt. The old man, who was Orúnmila, takes some malva leaves out of his bag [jorongo, a poncho-like garment] and, after performing certain ceremonies, places them on the king's forehead and gives him a decoction to drink. After a few days the king was well, and so he went to pay him, but the old man did not want money. Then [the king] devises a meal in gratitude.

The King called Ogún so that he would give notice [to the old man], but the physicians, envious of what Orúnmila had done and seeing themselves belittled, seized Ogún and intimidated him, telling him not to go looking for him. Meanwhile Orúnmila does Osode and sees this Ifá, which tells him to be careful of a trap or treachery. The day of the banquet arrives, and the King, seeing that his guest does not come, asks everyone, who answer with evasions. Then the King orders that he be brought immediately. When Orúnmila arrives, the King orders the food to be served to him, and seeing that nothing had been done, he became furious, drove out all the physicians, and gave Orúnmila the post of his personal physician [médico de cabecera], for his modesty, selflessness, kindness and humanity.