Ọ̀fúnmẹ̀jì comes down from Heaven proud, and falls. A woman with no door, and a friend who would marry her, mend what he could not. Her two eldest children, who grew up like cats and dogs, are made to swear on their mother's charm, the Edan. That, in one account, was the first initiation into the secret fraternity. In the second telling, a town is at war and a child is born into the hands of fourteen old people. He gives it an oath, a rule for rumour, and a house in the market. When the people forget the offerings, he leaves in a single stride, and the brass is what remains. Two old accounts of the Ògbóni, from Osamaro Ibie's Ifism and Ayọ̀ Ṣàlámì's Yorùbá Theology and Tradition, told with the Yorùbá ẹsẹ in a painted graphic novel for grown readers. By Babalawo Ifadahunsi Obafemi.