Why Did Obatala Sleep on the Road Down? The Elder Who Lost the Earth and the Work That Did Not Stop

Why did Obatala lose the making of the earth in the Frobenius telling? Because in Leo Frobenius's 1913 Ife versions, as Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola's Sacred Pataki of the Orisha presents them in the Obatala chapter's fourth section, 'The Road Down: The Elder Who Slept,' the elder Orishala was given the earth, the sand, and the five-fingered hen first, found palm wine on the way down, drank, and slumbered - and Olorun summoned the younger Odudua with the same sand and hen to make the earth at Ilife. This educational article (Obatala round 5) is anchored in that fourth section in full - first use as a dedicated anchor in this series. Teachings: corroboration in an oral tradition is independent tellings arriving at the same motif (Dennett 1910 and Frobenius 1913 on the creators turned to stone at Ife); the grade protects the claim - this is one great house's account, attested in print, on a question the tradition itself contests; the lapse of the appointed one does not stop the work, it reroutes it - the world gets made by whoever is awake when the call comes. Source and related reading, stated exactly: the teaching SOURCE is Sacred Pataki of the Orisha by Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola (Ajarn Shaman Shu) - no verified retail link for it is on file, none is offered; the related-reading volume carried is Obatala: The King of the White Cloth. Devotional/educational only; study is not initiation.