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==== How Anansi tricked two gods==== One day Ekuo and Sogblen went to go visit Anansi. However, when they knocked on his door, Anansi did not answer, and instead told his wife, Aso, to answer. When Ekuo asked where Anansi was, Aso said that he was upstairs. However, Anansi had webbed up the floor in front of the door, and hid under his bed, holding a web silk, so that when Sogblen entered the room, he tugged on the silk, setting off the trap, trapping Sogblen in webs. Ekuo came in next, but Anansi was prepared, so he came out disguised as his son. He said that Anansi had jumped out of the window, and when Ekuo looked outside, Anansi pushed him out and into another trap, which was a web that wrapped around Ekuo, with only three silks hanging from the roof suspending Ekuo in the air. Anasi then revealed himself, and robbed Sogblen of some of the yams he was carrying, and took Ekuo's cowries, before going downstairs. He went to a rice field nearby and ate the yams, before going to buy something with the cowries. Meanwhile, Ekuo told his spear to free him from his trap, then free Sogblen. They then asked Aso if she had seen Anansi leave, and she said that she had seen him leave the house in the direction of a rice field. Ekuo and Sogblen went there, and saw Anansi's footprints trailed off to the market, so they followed them. Anansi saw the two coming and hid in a herd of cows. However, Ekuo was interested in buying one of the cows, and eventually saw Anansi. They grabbed him and brought him out into public, where they shamed him for his lack of hospitality. Anansi, humbled, walked home, where he had a meal alone, while Ekuo and Sogblen bought a cow, killed it, and had a public feast.
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