It will be recalled that for a millennia, Orunmila was the only divinity left by God to continue corporeal existence on earth, after recalling all the other divinities to heaven. That was because, he was the only divinity adjudge by God to abhor evil and champion the cause of ethical objectivity. Anyone who practices evil cannot be an adherent of Orunmila.

Orunmila traveled far and wide from his base at Oke-Mesi now called lle-lfe in Western Nigeria to places beyond the mass of sand as distant as Mecca and Medina, where he taught the art of divination and beyond the sea to the land of the albinos where they could not recognize the importance of sacrifice.

He found In those places that man had abandoned the heavenly law which decrees the supremacy of the elders. They had come to give pride of place to position, possession and knowledge, thus: subverting the wisdom that goes with age.

From there, he traveled to the land of the albinos where people were only interested in divination but not In sacrifice because they did not recognize the subversive Influence of Esu. He saw in the land beyond the seas, the manifestation of the curse which Esu pronounced on the albinos In heaven, that for failing to recognize him (Esu), they would always live to be the scavenger of the earth without having final satisfaction.

And that in the process of providing for others, they would have no peace because since they come to heaven to seek the unknown, they would continue to wonder from one discovery to another, forever and ever.

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