Owonrin Meyi: the pit dug for someone else

Owonrin Meyi is the sixth of the sixteen major Odus in the order of seniority that Abímbọ́lá records (p. 29). The Tratado Enciclopédico de Ifá calls it Ojuani Meyi and says something hard about it: through this Ifá one never sees the fruits of one's work, because ingratitude always works harder than the person does (p. 3015). Among its refranes is the other side of the same coin: gratitude is the memory of the heart (p. 3023).

This Study retells three patakís from the prose part of the entry (pp. 3001–3012 of the PDF) that speak to this. In the first, wind and soil come down from heaven together, and only one of them listens. In the second, the elder priests of Oyo dig a pit on the road to the shrine for the colleague who prospered too fast. In the third, ingratitude no longer comes from outside: it comes from home, from the wife and from the son who became a king.

We also read the entry's six refranes and a fable about a chameleon who wanted to be handsomer than the dog. The thread is a single one, and the Tratado says it in several ways. Is the one who digs the pit the one who falls into it?