Àwòdì

Four sons were born to Wínnláwẹ̀, each for a different Òrìṣà. Three were taken into the sacred forest and initiated into Ifá. The fourth did not wait. Àwòdì went to the house of Olókun and began to practise on his own — and the priests burst into song against him. They sent Agbe, and Agbe sang it to his face. They sent Àlùkò, and Àlùkò sang it too. Neither came home. Then they sent Odídẹrẹ́, and warned him: use your coolness. He did not sing. He stopped a long way off, and he bowed to the earth. And what Àwòdì did next is why the grey parrot wears a red tail. But the story does not end with the feather. It ends in a room with Ọ̀rúnmìlà, where Àwòdì, who had won every exchange, meets someone who will not argue with him at all.