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It counts the history that many many years ago, in the fastuoso
kingdom of an African monarch, was born its first-born son to whom
they called Elegua. To the 8 years, the young very precocious era,
daring and travieso and employed much to its ancestors. A day,
walking by the border of the sea with his they guardian, vió an
object to shine next to a palm and ran to take it. His guardian tried
to prevent it, coming up to him that he could be a dangerous object
since was rare and had two intense lights in the place of the eyes
and a white cloud and weighs left its mouth, but Elegua he escaped
of the hands of its protector and escorts and he ran to take the
object to take it to it. When it had vió that was the fruit of a coconut
palm and was fascinated, then it heard a voice that said to him,
"cuidame and líbrame of polillas and the worms that they will love to
eat to me with time; if you protect to me, I will give to health and
prosperity you ". The boy promised to the Coco to take care of of
him while he lived and he took it to the castle.
Those snails that the fortune teller used were bucios, since then the
bucios acquired the gift and the power to communicate to the
mortals their aims through the divination, as well as the will of the
spirits of deads and the one of the Gods. The Coco, to who they put
the name of prince Elegua, since then was adored and consulted
with respect by all the wise people, fortune tellers and healers of all
the times...