Have You Visited Ile-ife before?
Have You Heard The Main Voice Of Ile-Ife As The Overall Historical And Ancient City?
I Will like to tell us more about this Ancient Historical Town and how it comes to existence and also my aims and objectives for visiting the ancient Town. Ile-Ife has been a very long time town coming in the history of Yoruba tribe as indigenous people in Africa generally speaking. When you talk about Ile-ife, you can not but say one thing or the other how the Yorubas came to existence through the coming of the ancient gods and through the strongest person who they later worship as their superior being.
When you talk about the Oduduwa he came from Heaven and he descended to earth through the rope or better still let call it a big Chain and a big fowl. This is their own believe that he came through this misery way so He is their god and Savior on way till this day, the Yorubas still believe and talk to the Oduduwa shrine as god who gives all things. Oduduwa brought a fowl from heaven and immediately he sàid left the fowl to make a small earth by scratching the earth North , South, West , to the East. That is how the four cardinal point came to existence through this one local fowl. After this, Oduduwa came to a point where he met a woman called Moremi
Who Is Moremi?
She is a woman of great power and Might, she can do and undo through some funny Powerful hand and through anger.
Mọ́remí Àjàsorò' was a figure of high significance in the history of the Yoruba peoples of West Africa Moremi was a courageous queen whose fame contributed to the victory of the Yoruba tribe over a neighbouring tribe.
She was a member-by-marriage of the royal family of Oduduwa, the tribe's fabled founding father.
The Oloori Moremi lived in the 12th century, hailed from Offa,and was married Oranmiyan, the heir to the King of Ife and Founding Father of the Yoruba tribe, Oduduwa. ile ife was kingdom that is said to have been at war with an adjoining tribe who were known to them as the Forest people known as the Ìgbò. (Ìgbò in the Yoruba language, though the said tribe is believed by scholars to have had no relation to the contemporary Ìgbòs of modern Nigeria). Scores of Ife citizens were being enslaved by these people, and because of this they were generally regarded with disdain by the Yoruba city-states.
Moremi was a very brave and beautiful woman who, in order to deal with the problem facing her people, offered her only son in sacrifice to the Spirit of the river Esimirin so that she could discover the strength of her nation's enemies.
She is said to have been taken as a slave by the Ugbo and, due to her beauty, married their ruler as his anointed queen. After familiarizing herself with the secrets of her new husband's army, she escaped to Ile-Ife and revealed this to the Yorubas who were able to subsequently defeat them in battle.
Following the war she returned to her first husband, King Oramiyan of Ife (and later Oyo), who immediately had her re-instated as his Princess Consort. In order to fulfil the pledge she made to Esimirin before embarking on her mission, her son Oluorogbo was given in sacrifice to the Spirit because this is what it asked her for when she returned to its shrine.
The Edi Festival is said to have then been started as a means of celebrating the sacrifice the princess made for the people of Yorubaland. Furthermore, a number of public places are named after her in contemporary Nigeria, such as the female residence halls at the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University.
So we have alot of Powerful human gods who later today be a true god. But I didn't go to the Oduduwa shrine because it is very far from me but I visited the Oba Palace which is Olori Alaye Ooni
This is the Kabiesi's entrance to the Main palace which is otherwise called the Ooni Palace I captured this within few seconds after I drove down to the palace just 20 minutes drive from my Parents residence in Ile-Ife. Osun state. Nigeria. Actually, I was suppose to enter the frist gate but it was closed unless I come with letter and permission that is how it is been ruled. Although sometimes you can enter freelance.
Here is the entrance and passway to Enuwa , there are many names you might have not heard before but now and today you will hear them well.
This is called the Oduduwa statue, Yes I almost forgotten I have the picture here with me, this is one of the Ile-Ife or lets say Yoruba Indigenous powerful human who created the earth and many sons region.
We have the Oke Mogun this is otherwise called Olojo Shrine
Among the hundreds of big gods which the Ile-ife people believe in I brought few, I will be glad if I'm chanced and spent few days in Osun state to cover more historical gods.
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