In the days of my fore bearers this is how disease and epidemics were handled. Sadly in my time things like this still prevail. Yesterday, my twins died - both of them. My third child ... [unstrapping the baby on her back.] here, feel her, feel how hot she is ... come feel. However, since the King himself has not been spared the sickness because sickness like rain falls on every roof, he has sent Aderopo to the oracle of Ifa at the shrine of Orunmila to seek the cause of their tribulations. Returning home, Aderopo - fearful for the results he was carrying - decided to tell the chief, in private, the response the oracle has given him. Haughty and temperamental as he is, King Odewale demanded to receive the information right in front of his people, to the hearing of everyone, mocking Aderopo in the process. After several cajoling, mocking, insulting, and pleading, Aderopo told them what the oracle had said: Very well. Ifa oracle says the curse, your highness, is on a man... A full-grown man... The man has killed another man... King Adetusa - my own father, the King who ruled this land before you.... An except from THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:51:43 +0000
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