₦airaland Forum

phlio:
SUMMARY OF the gods are not to blame BY OLA ROTIMI
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME, a play written by Ola Rotimi and first published in 1971 is the tragic story of a prince who grew up to kill his father and marry his mother. It is a play of three acts and ten (10) scenes (act 1: 2 scenes, act 2: 4 scenes, act 3: 4 scenes).
The book began with the prologue. In the land of Kutuje, a son was born to King Adetusa and his wife, Queen Ojuola, the king and queen of the land of Kutuje. The son was their first baby. As is the custom there, the son was taken to a priest of Ifa to tell what the boy’s future would be. The priest of Ifa,, Baba Fakunle cast his opele and said the child would kill his father and marry his own mother. No one was happy about this prophecy. The only way to stop the bad future from happening was to kill the child. So the priest of Ogun, a member of the king’s entourage, tied the baby’s feet with a string of cowries meaning sacrifice to the gods who sent the boy to earth, and assigned the king’s special messenger, Gbonka, to go to the evil grove in the bush with the child. Two years later, Obatala, God of creation consoled the royal family by giving King Adetusa and Queen Ojuola another son, Aderopo.
Thirty years later, King Adetusa was murdered and the people of Ikolu took advantage of this and attacked Kutuje. The people of Kutuje were left hopeless until Odewale, a wanderer from the tribe of Ijekun Yemoja came. He saw the people’s sadness and motivated them to attack the people of Ikolu. They were successful and the people of Kutuje made Odewale their king even though he was not from Kutuje. According to their custom, Odewale married the Queen Ojuola and had four children with her.
After some years of peace, a mysterious sickness descended upon the land, killing many. Aderopo, the son of the late king was sent to Orunmila in Ile Ife. The Oracle of Ifa at the shrine of Orunmila found that the cause of sickness and death was because the murderer of the late king was living peacefully in the land of Kutuje. But Aderopo did not know who the person was. Odewale asked and was told that the late king was murdered by robbers. Odewale then vowed to find the murderer and pluck out the person’s eyes then send the person away to wander about.
Aderopo brought Baba Fakunle an old man to the palace. Baba Fakunle, at first refused to talk for he knew who the murderer was. But he indirectly accused king Odewale of being a bed sharer. He said it is Odewale’s anger that brought this upon him. Odewale got very angry and distressed and to calm him down, the chiefs told him Baba Fakunle was mad. But Odewale got suspicious and accused Aderopo of plotting the whole thing with Baba Fakunle so that he, Aderopo could become king. Not even Queen Ojuola could get the king to calm down.
Soon after, Odewale’s old friend from Ijekun found his way to the palace and when Odewale identified him, was warmly received. His name was Alaka, and he was the son of Odediran. While discussing and ‘catching up on old times’, Odewale told Alaka why he had run away from his farm many many years ago. He killed a man who was stealing from his farm and yet had the guts to insult Odewale’s people, calling them a ‘bush tribe’. Odewale could no longer stay on his farm because he had spilled blood on it. Later, discussing with the queen, she told Odewale that when her husband died, Baba Fakunle said the he was killed by his own blood. She also told him Baba Fakunle had said her first son would kill his father and marry his mother. She mentioned Gbonka as the person who witnessed King Adetusa’s death and Odewale immediately sent men to bring Gbonka from Ipetu.
Considering it good news, Alaka told Odewale of his father’s death. At this, Odewale told them why he was not sad and grieving over his father’s death. Long ago, his father’s brother implied that he was not his father’s son. He was disturbed and went to consult an Ifa priest who told him he was cursed, that he would kill his father and marry his mother. So he ran away to avoid this. But Alaka then told him that the people he thought were his parents were not his real parents. Alaka told everyone how Odewale had been adopted by the people he thought were his parents. The man he thought was his father had gone hunting with Alaka – he was Alaka’s master. They saw a man in the bush of Ipetu with a baby wrapped in white cloth like a sacrifice to the gods. The baby’s arms and feet were tied with strings of cowries. They had pity on the baby and took him.
Shortly after, Gbonka was brought into the palace. Alaka recognized him but he did not recognize Alaka. As Alaka reminded him of their encounter in the past, the truth came out that Odewale is indeed the son of the late king Adetusa. And that the man Odewale murdered on his farm long ago was his own father, King Adetusa. Queen Ojuola and the Ogun priest realized the truth before the rest of them. While the Ogun priest made futile attempts to hide the truth from Odewale, Queen Ojuola went into her bedroom. Going into the room, Odewale saw that Queen Ojuola had stabbed herself to death. He pulled the knife from her stomach and gouged out his own eyes. Only one of the chiefs was with him when he did this. Aderopo came in and Odewale apologized to him for accusing him wrongly. Odewale then got his four children, and told the oldest to lead the way. They were going to wander as far as possible from the land of Kutuje. Odewale placed a curse on whoever tried to stop him.


who is to be blame?
1.The servant that refused to kill odewale
2.The ifa priest
3.The gods
4.The king and his queen
5.nobody

A babalawo once told me to not take Akosedaye reading (divination for new born) because it sonetimes brings fear, this fear is what makes the bad prophecy actually happen

So I blame the king and queen but then they were just concerned parents who wanted to know the future of their son. .
Then I blame the servant for not killing when he had to. ..but then destiny is destiny and Ifa doesn't lie

Why I say Islam is arab supremacy upon non-arabs

Lmao Freaking poverty stricken Muslims you think rich and intelligent people have such poor arab mentality

Rexnegro:
Not yet bro the zombie has to be probe and jailed then after his jail terms ehen they can now have him . Yeye pipu

another dumb fool who deludes himself thinking Buhari can do anything to GEJ

texanomaly:
Leave it to you to turn a snake find into a religious discussion.


Been a long time. How are you macof?

it's my calling tex, don't mess with the divine

By the Spirits I'm doing well and you?

Holatunde007:
A piece of ur brain should be able to comprehend that

But you can't comprehend the meaning of the word "God" and how not to begin a noun with small letter hence writing "god" is wrong , people only do that out of religious bigotry

Holatunde007:
Old fool don't ever refer my God as a god, if u don't want thunder to do justice on you

So your god would send thunder and lightening to me. Is he Sango or Thor or Amadioha?

Holatunde007:
Well I serve God not a god thou

Another fool who let's religious sentiments blur his intellect

ur "God" Jehova is a god for your information

Babacele:
bros I want to learn more about Osossi. I have a strong feeling it will help in a personal research abt a town sharing a name almost d same with Osossi.

What town is that? What state?

To find out about any particular Orisa/Irunmole you get a babalawo or an elder initiated into the cult of the said Irunmole

Historically Osossi was the guard of the hunter - king Oreluere (9jacrip should know more about that than me)

UfuosLaLa:
Benins are not Yorubas please and they will never be. Their history is clear to anyone who cares to look well. The Ekpen n'Owan(home Leopard), Omo n'Oba n'Edo himself does not call himself Yoruba but a full Edo man, stop these your false claims abeg. And don't u bother go into the Oduduwa story.... Long live the new monarch.

The confusion comes with the attachment yoruba kids feel towards Bini on hearing about yoruba - Bini relationship throughout history
Bini remain Yoruba closest relatives on this earth

Lstar4real:
Go back and read history very well and tell me the reason why Benin called their King "OBA" and mind u if Benin not Yoruba why can't they give their King another name different.... Like Igbo using Igwe.......They are Omo oduduwa..my friend

The Bini royal lineage is of Ife origin but the greater Bini people are not yoruba
Even the Omo'n'oba would be wrong to call himself yoruba, he can only say his ancestors were Yoruba (or Ife Ooye as they were called back then)

adaybayor:
Why are you wasting your time on him. How about he come and listen to me change tongue and tell me if he will understand anything.

many of dem have no idea of Yoruba language, how deep it is and it's many dialects and accents

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] Rubbish...Ayagnburen and Ebumawe have no meaning in yoruba language. [/color]

Oh great now the Esan man teaches Ijebus(Yorubas) their language too

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] Ayangburen is an ishan name...why would a Lagos chief bear an ishan appellation?Just as you have Osemawe in Ondo state....Could it be that the Binis have had much extensive colonisation over coastal southwest than contemporary history would divulge? could these colonisations be fuelled by an embassy from Portugal and the strategic need to trade slaves and fire arms?Had Lagos been the contact point between these two imperial nations?Was it why Lagos was named so by the Europeans and Eko by the Binis....?Can we hypothetically say Lagos became no man's land at that historical and epic point? [/color]

Another ishan telling yorubas and Binis their history while his history dies away

SenatorJames:
May God bless you for abusing in your comment. Blessing, Favour, Peace, Success and Breakthrough will be your portion in Jesus name.

Thank you but you still didn't answer my question

davien:
Nothing ever truly started existing...existence to me is a development...

To understand what I'm trying to say ask yourself this question....can you point to a time when absolutely nothing existed?...

The answer is no, things(abstract from matter) like energy,have always existed albeit in prior states...

So existence comprises of stuff that develops(energy,matter,space-time,etc)...and never truly stops developing....it is a forever moving wheel of change....

Well said

ArchEnemy:
What about money and swags ?

This is what matters most to local girls

kindnyce:
WE SHOULD BLAME OURSELVES FOR ALLOWING PDP TO MAKE US PASS THRU THIS HELL

olodo
You think the Nigerian problem began with PDP?

Africans will only know pain and unhappiness until we learn that breaking up all these colonial boarders and reconstructing our nations on ethnic homogeneity and common language is the best way forward

I stopped reading at no 1.
The op must be ignorant of the history between Tuface And Annie Macauley

Awoofawo:
That's the problem

I don't see it as a problem. ..its we Yorubas who are our problem

We are not yet serious


We are the most power group in Nigeria, if we put our resources into our freedom we would get it quickly with help from the entire world powers in fact

Maybe this would encourage yorubas to fight for our heritage

Promote our identity

scholes0:
Yoruba language dying in Nigeria?
is this a joke or what? Do you know how many movies come out in the Yoruba language each month, or how many Afro-pop music by Nigerian acts is released in Yoruba language per month, or how many kids are born each year, who speak Yoruba as their sole home language?
brother, pls... don't say that again. Yoruba will be one of the last African languages standing, no matter how dire things become.

All those films that have 30% english?
Songs 30% englisch and 20% pidgin

Awoofawo:
Yoruba people affinity for their language is next to none in the whole of africa.
Everywhere the Yoruba goes they alway take their language with them and blend in with the surrounding culture, never made unnecessary noise that may threat their hosts.

I am praying and sincere hoping that a day will come, when science, mathematics, engineering and so on will be taught in our local languages. On that day, is when Nigeria will real be a great nation...

Nigeria can never allow yoruba nation to grow
Nigeria must die for the various nations within it to strive

Beautiful thread. . Op Barcanista good job with this educative piece

MuttleyLaff:
Yes, and you know it is

your yoruba is so poor

Yoruba will continue giving this people headache

Yes we like our traditional ways, we visit babalawo. ..they are the best answer to problems
We like our culture and are tribal yes.
We don't jump into unnecessary fights cus we are no fools

Now that's what makes Yoruba stand out

MuttleyLaff:
I have no problem with your "delusion"
Live and let live is my mantra

I don't care about what ever mantra suits u

Wo ẹgbẹ ẹ, yi wọ sọhun, mu lane ti ẹ, material mi o ni brake, yi wọ sọhun, yi wọ sọhun.

Is this supposed to be yoruba

Language, language

SMH. Very funny indeed, a wikipedia link, wikipedia the breeding ground for spreading and encouraging ignorance

yes it's language. You said I should talk Greek... I brought it sweetly to you to show that your "faith" doesn't exist in classical thought, wat we have is trust(or hope maybe you could settle for delusion). . As Greek and Latin professed it. ..they had nothing like faith
Same for yoruba
If it's game of linguistics you wanna play I have already owned you on it

now the link is false. . OK why don't you use the Google translate or buy a bilingual Greek - english dictionary

Anyway your link says:


Pistis (Πίστις) was the personification of good FAITH, trust and reliability
Notice the link used faith and trust in its explanation
I know you're averse to faith which is why you avoid it like a plague and cant stand including it in that post

There are at least four kinds of faith but you my friend, for reasons best known to you seem to particularly have it in for the Biblical faith

C'mon you already talked down wikipedia. ..made a mess of the entire encyclopedia network

But you think you on to something right?

Pls can you not see clearly that it stated "good faith"
And the term "good faith" is not Faith

read
...for better understanding of the term "good faith"

Yes I have it in for the Biblical faith because it doesn't exist. .. in fact "faith" as is described doesn't exist in the human psychology
Try Trust, Hope and Delusion. ..they are often mistaken as "faith"

johnydon22:
This actually is the scientific stance... Life on earth evolved thru a natural process..

but this doesn't quite give an answer to the question

MuttleyLaff:
You can harp on whatever presumptions you have Speedy, Mr Speedy Gonzales or is Einstein better

Of course, I read it, and what jumped out was the WE JUST "in yoruba we just use "belief."

Dont know why got the hump. Who is teaching you Yoruba? Did you mistake FYI for teaching, even after I posted we are saying the same thing


I said this before but will say again here. All I can say, is faith not just part of religion but it's part of every aspect of our everyday lives

Forget Latin. Latin actually borrowed a lot of words from Greek.
Try faith in Greek. NT was written in Greek, even the Greeks sought the audience of Jesus

Of course "blind faith" has different meanings or interpretations to different people, incidentally you happen to be one of those people that use it as a negative.

you really don't want to accept correction.

OK I'll play along ur lane. ..

in Greek , Pistis means Trust, "Pistis" was the same word used in many parts of the NT which english bibles translate as "faith"
now ur church picked up the meaning of faith from their ass

Pistis is also a character (personified) in Greek mythology
Read

Christian englisch speakers obviously filled with delusions gave a different meaning to faith. ..a meaning that doesn't exist in the human psychology...a meaning closer to delusion or Hope

johnydon22:
You are part of nature, just like a tree or an animal... we are all nature... That a tree withers doesnt kill u or any other part of nature. That you die still doesnt destroy every other part of nature..

We are all nature, you, i, cow, tree, yam everything is part of nature...Humanity is a part of nature... You are the one who actually think humanity is different from nature when humanity is nature itself..

The greatest illusion of the world is the illusion of separation... Du think yourself different from the goat, cow or sheep you see out there? or the Caucasian or asiatic you see?

We are all different parts of the same whole... Just like ur hand, eyes, nose, legs are all different part of the same whole which is you..

you don't know what I think
I simply brought out a piece from the whole to explain that Nature doesn't need Man to be conscious, Nature was conscious before Man and would remain so after humanity ever ends

do you believe Nature can give consciousness to man(a piece of itself) at the dawn of humanity when it never had consciousness in the first place

Lilimax:
Nwaekwensu a.k.a SonOfLucifer- I've gone through your write up.
Nice research though but I've made up my mind long ago

Agaghi m efe chi ejiri aka mee... meaning I will never worship man made god.
***Singing***

What is God? explain how man can make God