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Epe Alaafin Aole (Alaafin Aole's curse) An Excerpt
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In Oyo Empire, the word of the Alaafin must be carried out to the letter by any Are-Ona kakanfo; anyone who disobeyed such an order usually had the message of his death brought to the Alaafin. Historically, Afonja could not attack the people of IwereIle because a curse had been placed on any Are-Ona Kankafo who dared attempt to attack the town by Alaafin Ajagbo who instituted the title. Incidentally, Iwere-ile was also the birth place of his mother and that of Alaafin Abiodun.

The army led by Afonja turned against Oba Aole and he was sent a calabash, which traditionally symbolised that he should commit suicide. He however refused and saw Afonja as a traitor. But before Oba Aole was killed, according to Rev. Samuel Johnson in his book ‘The History of Yoruba,’ he invoked the spirits of his fore-fathers and shot three magical arrows into the three tripod on which the kingdom was believed to stand. “My curse be on ye for your disloyalty and disobedience, so let your children disobey you. If you send them on errand, let them never return to bring you word again

“To all the points I shot my arrows will ye be carried as slaves. My curse will carry you to the sea and beyond the sea, slaves will rule over you and you their master will become slaves” he said. Thereafter, the kingdom never knew peace.
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Cc kayfra afamed lzaa helinus immhotep.


What has been seen can never be unseen.

MrColdsweat:
Cc kayfra afamed lzaa helinus immhotep.


What has been seen can never be unseen.

MrColdsweat:
Cc kayfra afamed lzaa helinus immhotep.


What has been seen can never be unseen.

Hmmnn. No wonder

Is now clear ewedus were cursed..