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CHAPTER SEVEN
OBATALA was furious with ODUDUWA for completing his task, without his consent; he returned to the heavens.
Word of the happening got to ODUDUWA, he called ODUDUWA in the presence of all the ORISHAS and he appointed ODUDUWA first and only king of mankind that he should take the form of man and reside with them as their ruler.
OLODUMARE gave him the power of reincarnation that he change his body as the previous body dies. For OLODUMARE knew that the clay bodies created would not be able to hold a deity for eternity and that he may be with man long enough to ensure ORISANLA’s anger subsides.
ORISANLA came before OLODUMARE, he pled for justice but OLODUMARE told him that his petition lacked merit. “This is unfair! It is not fair!” ORISANLA thought. OLODUMARE saw into his thoughts and he was disappointed that his favourite deity questioned his judgement. Even though ORISANLA didn’t voice his reservations, it pained OLODUMARE that it crossed his mind at all. To quash every ill feeling and doubts, OLODUMARE showed ORISANLA a vision of his conduct on earth.
ORISANLA was shocked, he didn’t know he did anything close to what he saw, and his heart was saddened. Filled with regret, he asked OLODUMARE for the grace to right his wrongs, he swore an oath in the presence of OLODUMARE to be the guardian and provider of the deformed creatures he formed and to never again drink the water of the palm tree known today as palm wine.
OLODUMARE summoned ILE and commanded her to leave the heavens for she had caused enough disturbances with her greed and jealousy. He casted her to dwell beneath the new creations feet and to never return to the heavens. She accepted her faith and left the presence of OLODUMARE without uttering a word.
OLODUMARE did not punish the other ORISHAS for their actions because OBATALA was not able to complete the task due to his own slip-up but he instructed them not to interfere with the new creations. Not all the ORISHAS obeyed this command. Some still went about possessing some men and others demanding sacrifices from men.
OLODUMARE commended ESU and ORUNMILA for not comprising their stance and joining forces with ILE. He gave them as much right and permission to interact with the new creations as ORISANLA. ORUNMILA and ESU were both promoted to co –exist as equals with ORISANLA in the trinity of divinities .They humbly accepted their gifts and descended to the new world.
 
EPILOGUE
ILE met with ORUNMILA and pleaded with him to help her dwell gloriously in her new abode. He agreed and instructed her to make the following sacrifices and by doing so she will profit from men’s undertakings and blessings in life. He instructed ILE to offer a sacrifice of 16 OBI, 16 OROGBO, 16 ATARE, 16 RATS, 16 PIGEONS, and 16 GUINE FOWLS. ILE agreed and offered the sacrifice as directed by ORUNMILA. Indeed the work and the profit of all living being returned to ILE with profit. We build and all our undertakings and investment, our achievements and children is made possible because of ILE – and to her we return - to the bosom of earth - after our earthly journey. We grow, we struggle, we become poor or rich on earth and later we are all swallowed up by the same ILE. Men‘s profit and poverty in life will in death end up in the belly of the earth. Hence the OGBONI Society was founded to secure the worship of mother – earth.

CHAPTER SIX
Out to please OLODUMARE, his adored creator, ORISANLA fashioned mankind in OLODUMARE’s most alluring form.
He moulded man with utmost adroitness. He made ten toes and ten fingers, he made two eyes, two nostrils and so on. His model remains till date. After he was done with the first man, he admired the fruit of his labour albeit a shell, for he had yet to put the component in the IGBA IWA in man, he was confident that OLODUMARE would be deeply satisfied with the beauty he had created.
His accomplishment gave him an air of ease and he decided to rest. He explored the new earth he had helped created. “It was no longer fit to be called watery earth,” he mused.
Though he was well rested, he wasn’t still back in optimum condition. It was a strange occurrence, one he was yet to demystify. He continued his exploration and during this time he discovered he had a new sensation, his throat was dry. Not knowing what to do, he decided to drink water from the ocean. It seemed logical to him that wetness could be a fix to this dryness. To his utmost dismay, the water he drank contained something strange, in excess. He spat it out almost immediately he scooped a little into his mouth.
ORISANLA decided to make a drink from the exceptional tall palm tree which he used to descend to the earth. He drank from the tree and his thirst was soothed but he did not stop drinking, not because he was thirsty or because he could not stop, it was because the drink was sweet and it made him feel lighter.
After a while, ORISANLA was drunk. He had had an excess of the drink from the palm tree, now known as palm wine. He didn’t know he was drunk, in fact he liked the state he was in. He returned to creating more men.
Meanwhile in the Heavens, OLODUMARE was anxious about the new creation, so anxious that he summoned a deity, ODUDUWA, to go and check ORISANLA’s progress.
ODUDUWA obeyed OLODUMARE and left for earth immediately. To his utmost amazement, he found that ORISANLA was moulding beings that looked nothing like OLODUMARE in any of his form. He could tell that ORISANLA was trying to mould them into OLODUMARE’s most preferred form but the creatures were deformed in appearance but he. He was disappointed in ORISANLA and was tempted to go back to the heavens without expressing his discomfort with ORISANLA’s creations as it was not his place to admonish him.
Nervously, ODUDUWA confronted ORISANLA but he noticed an odd change in ORISANLA’s behaviour and gait. Concerned, “What is wrong with you?” ODUDUWA asked. ORISANLA smiled and told him that nothing was wrong with him but that a secret to make his assignment on earth easier and his stay on earth pleasant. ODUDUWA was confused, he didn’t know what to make of the reply he got. He pressed and asked what the secret was and ORISANLA regaled him with the story of how he discovered a drink from the palm tree. “It is a divine liquid, a gift from OLODUMARE himself. It is the reason why I’ve been able to do so much in such a little time,” ORISANLA said.
ODUDUWA was convinced that this mysterious drink ORISANLA talked about was responsible for his current state. He advised ORISANLA to desist from the consumption of this drink that it was damaging to his mission. Dead to reason, ORISANLA sneered at ODUDUWA and headed in the direction of the palm tree.
This time he drank till he passed out, ODUDUWA took it upon himself to complete the task of creation on OBATALA’s behalf.
ODUDUWA completed the task and returned to the heavens.

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CHAPTER FIVE
Complete exhausted, ORISANLA arrived the throne of OLODUMARE.
ORO saw him and went ahead to inform all the deities who cared to hear of his arrival.
Once ILE heard of OBATALA’s return, she became afraid and began to panic. She sent out a message through ORO to all the deities to cut off all the spider web like ropes that connected the heavens to the watery earth.
OLODUMARE was filled with joy as he saw OBATALA approach the throne, he welcomed him with open arms and told him how he was pleased with him. He informed him that he had to embark on the main mission, the creation of mankind, immediately as they were behind schedule.
OGUN, who heard of ILE’s directive to all the deities to cut-off connection to the watery earth and witnessed the aftermath, came to OLODUMARE’s presence to inform him of the recent happenings.
OLODUMARE was displeased with the new development but he wasn’t shocked by it, he was all-knowing after all. He commanded OGUN to let down his Iron chain to the earth to ensure ORISANLA’s safe passage to the earth.
OGUN did as commanded and allowed ORISANLA unto his chain but he had a sinister plan, he was a covert ILE apologist. Midway into ORISANLA’s descent unto earth, OGUN held back a substantial length of his chain. ORISANLA was at doldrums again, he didn’t know what was happening, he was stuck.
He hoped it was a temporary fix but as time passed it was evident that he wasn’t going anywhere. OGUN was delighted at his own wit. He hadn’t planned for this but he couldn’t resist taking the chance when it presented itself, an opportunity to support ILE’s cause. It wasn’t a perfect checkmate but it was a good one. His plan’s success depended on ORISANLA’s desperation. He hoped that ORISANLA in his desperation and haste to please OLODUMARE will jump down, a distance which will surely cause harm to OBATALA and prevent him from completing his task in the stipulated time.
Time went past and ORISANLA was still stuck between the Heavens and Earth, he called out to OGUN to increase the length of his chain, but he was too far off from the heavens to be heard.
OBATALA placed his hand in his snail like shell and brought out one of the seed like sand he got from his quest. He poured it out unto the watery earth. The the seed grew exponentially into a palm tree tall enough to cover up the distance he required for his descent. He then climbed down the palm tree unto the small surface of earth present.
OLODUMARE was anxious he sent out one of his trusted ORISHA “THE CHAEMELON (OGA)” to go and inspect how far OBATALA had completed the task, he went down to earth and surveyed the work done so far and returned back, stating that the earth is still very wide but not very dry. OLODUMARE was troubled with his report and told OGA to go back and survey once more.
Back on watery earth, OBATALA sprinkles more sand from the snail shell unto the surface of the watery earth and releases the GIANT HEN with five toes to scratch and spread the sand all over the watery earth; he releases the PIGEON to assist the GIANT HEN fly over the surface of the earth and spread the sand as fast as possible.
OGA returned to the earth and noticed a wide area of dry land. Before he returned, ORISANLA beckoned him, he asked OGA to request on his behalf OLODUMARE’s breathe of life so he can fashion man in OLODUMARE’s image. OGA travelled to the heavens and reported the situation OLODUMARE.
OLODUMARE was pleased with this report. He named this vast area of land ILE IFE (WIDE LAND). He summoned ORUNMILA to descend to the earth, to present ORISANLA the last ingredient, the calabash of character, which ORISANLA referred to as OLODUMARE’s breathe of life.
As ORUNMILA made to descend with the IGBA IWA, ORO appeared and snatched it from him. ORUNMILA descended empty handed and informed ORISANLA of what just transpired, but as he was speaking ESU appeared with it and told ORISANLA he was witty enough to retrieve it from ORO. ORUNMILA felt something wasn’t right, but did not say a word. He ascended back to the heavens suspicious of ESU. ORISANLA took the IGBA IWA from ESU and thanked him. Unknown to ORISANLA, ESU had tampered with the content of the calabash after retrieving it from ORO.
With the remaining soil; OBATALA began the preparation for the creation of mankind.

to be continued..

CHAPTER FOUR-B
He removed the cowrie from his eye, he noticed brightness everywhere. It was too bright for any of the AJOGUN ORUN to dwell in and there was no life form in sight. All he saw were grains of seed like sand scattered around. ORISANLA knew this was the component he would be required to fill up the earth. He pondered how he could carry it out because he has no sack of any form and his fist wouldn’t be able to carry enough for the earth surface.
Having located all the components, he needed a plan, a good plan. He had to succeed. “I cannot betray OLODUMARE’s confidence in me,” he thought. He replayed all the events of he had experienced during the quest in his head. He could not afford to miss anything, every detail mattered.
The episode at the first location flashed in his mind and it hit him that he noticed a hollow shell in the cage. He hadn’t looked at it twice since he was told that each location holds a component. He smiled. A plan was building up.
ORISANLA hurried back to the first location. He noticed that the cage holding the giant hen was about to fail. An idea came to him. He exhaled. He had a complete plan.
He cooked up a plan and rushed to the location of the pigeon like creature. At the location, he looked and searched around but couldn’t locate it. He hoped the AJAGUN ORUN had not consumed it. Lost in his mind, he was brought back to life by a loud wail. He recognized that vocal sound, it was of the giant hen. He was deeply distressed as the wail intensified.
At this point, he no longer had a plan, all that was on his mind was the safety of the giant hen. In his delirium, ORISANLA pulled the smoky darkness off his body and he revealed himself hoping that the pigeon like creature, if alive, would run to him upon sighting him, but if the creature was transformed already it could be his undoing. Behold, his light shined so bright across the darkness that all the creatures of the dark hid thinking it was OLODUMARE that appeared before them.
The Pigeon like creature appeared and flew swiftly towards him, he mounted the creature and headed towards the Hen like creature. He met a creature with a snail like shell about to devour the giant hen. He ripped it out of its shell without killing it and headed towards the place of sand and seeds. He saved the giant hen.
He mounted the pigeon the hen in his hand. He rode the pigeon with fury in the direction of the third component. He noticed the pigeon became smaller in size as they flew further and faster.
OBA AWON AJAGUN ORUN (THE KING OF THE PUNITIVE KNIGHTS OF HEAVEN), a ferocious monster with eighty eight arms fashioned like tentacles of an octopus, is the leader of the AJOGUN ORUN. Being the strongest of the AJOGUN ORUN, he crowned himself. He sensed the light in his kingdom and he knew at once that it was ORISANLA. Unlike his follower, he wasn’t fooled by the magnanimity of the light, he knew it was ORISANLA, he sensed his aura.
ORISANLA arrived at the final location. He got off the back of the pigeon like creature and began to fill the shell he acquired with seed like sand. OBA AWON AJAGUN ORUN wasn’t going to allow this slight without a fight. Even though he could not see, he stretched all of his eighty eight in a bid to capture him.
ORISANLA packed all the soil he could, picked the hen and mounted the pigeon as fast as he could. He covered himself and the components with the smoky darkness leaving only behind the rest of the shinning soil. He put the small cowry on his eye for vision. This didn’t fool OBA AWON AJAGUN ORUN, it made him easier to be seen and one of the numerous tentacles were able to grasp ORISANLA at the ankle and refused to let him go.
After locating ORISANLA, he increased his grip by using all of his tentacles to hold him. ORISANLA fell off the pigeon like creature. OBA AWON AJAGUN ORUN pulled him to his presence.
OBA AWON AJAGUN ORUN held him tightly and was sucking positive and dynamic powers off his target. With passing time, ORISANLA was losing power. It was a tricky situation for him for could kill the beast with a single blow but he would not do that so the energy balance in the heavens wouldn’t be affected.
ORUNMILA detected a shift in energy balances and rushed to OLODUMARE to help ORISANLA but OLODUMARE was not moved for he had faith in OBATALA. He told ORUNMILA off and advised him to hold his peace.
ORISANLA was almost overwhelmed but he used all his residual strength to rip out all the eighty eight tentacles from OBA AWON AJAGUN ORUN’s body all at once.
The beast let out a cry that was heard across the heavens and was interpreted differently; the jealous deities perceived it as the end of ORISANLA. ESU met with ORUNMILA to ask the meaning. “It is ORISANLA’s victory”, ORYNMILA replied.
While with ORUNIMILA, ESU tried to convince ORUNMILA to place confusion, greed, jealously and so on within the IGBA IWA( calabash of character ) stating that this would make mankind always look up to deities for solutions and worship them by offering sacrifices but he declined.
Within the gates of darkness;
ORISANLA unravelled himself and mounted the pigeon like creature in his true nature. With no other creature to challenge him, he flew towards the gate of the darkness. As he came out of the gate the pigeon like creature shrank to his palm size due to exhaustion, so he carries it, the giant hen and the shell with sand like seeds to OLODUMARE’s throne.

CHAPTER FOUR-A
There was noise everywhere. The darkness was ominous. He knew about the creatures that dwelt here. He knew they could see him; not in his true form but as one of them.
The map was useless for if he opened it he could not read it without illuminating it. At this thought, he remembered the second gift from ORUNMILA. He placed the small cowrie on his left eye. The cowrie clung to his eye and all of a sudden he could see all that was around him; the ferocious creatures, revolving around him as if they suspected he was not one of them, but they do not attack him.
He read the map and headed in the direction of the first component. Upon his arrival at the location, he saw an encampment of AJAGUN ORUN. Capturing his attention was a creature in a cage. From the look of things he could bet that the caged creature was the centre of attraction around there.
The sight struck him as odd. He moved closer. He beheld a GIANT HEN like creature with 5 toes. Visibly terrified, the creature was wailing as the AJAGUN ORUN were trying to break the cage open by ramming into it continuously. He was fixated by this oddity.
He wondered if this could be the component he sought.
“There was no way of knowing…”He thought.
Suddenly, he remembered that all OLODUMARE created excluding the AJAGUN ORUN had his signature celestial glow. ORISANLA removed the cowrie from his eye and beheld a GIANT HEN like creature with 5 toes terrified glowing in the dark. He smiled.
ORISANLA did not make any move to rescue it. He continued to find the other components for he knew if he made an attempt to rescue this creature the AJAGUN ORUN would be aware of his presence that he would lose his advantage of stealth.
ORISANLA placed the cowrie on his eye and read the map. He headed in the direction of the second component. As he proceeded, the noise began to fade away until there was a sullen silence. He wasn’t perturbed by this, he kept on.
ORISANLA looked around, he saw a pigeon flying about; being chased by the AJAGUN ORUN. The creature was swift in flight but seemed to be getting exhausted. He removed the cowrie from his eye. The pigeon had the celestial glow.
ORISANLA was tempted to reveal himself and save the creature but he knew if he made an attempt to rescue this creature the AJAGUN ORUN will be aware of his presence and he still had one more component to recover.
ORISANLA placed the cowrie on his eyes and read the map. He headed towards the direction of the third component. He arrived at the location, it was empty and fallow. He brought out his map to confirm he was at the right place, he was.

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CHAPTER THREE
The DARKNESS OF HEAVEN was a place IRUNMOLES were advised to avoid at all times. It was the lair of the AJAGUN ORUN.
AJAGUN ORUN are ugly and vile beasts. They hate all forms of existence, even OLODUMARE their creator.
Inured to darkness, light had become their bane. Light blinds them but yet they have the ability to devour all forms of light they lay their hands on.
ORISANLA arrived the GATE OF DARKNESS, he remembered ORUNMILA’s gift.
ORISANLA removed all his attire and crushed the big cowrie with his fist. As the cowrie structure fails upon the impact from his fist; a black smoke sips out of the abnormally sized cowrie and begins to wrap its self around ORISANLA, from his fist to his face then his feet; till his whole body lost its celestial glow.
ORISANLA now had the appearance of an AJAGUN ORUN; he could now walk amongst them unnoticed.
Geared up, he entered the Gates.

The AJOGUN ORUN’s were ferocious and furious beasts that fed off positive vibrations and transformed their victims to creatures like themselves. This ability of theirs troubled ORUNMILA.
If OBATALA falls to them his entire positive and dynamic powers would be transformed into a distressing quantity negative spiritual vibrations that exist in the heavens and this would offset the balance of the spiritual vibrations that exists in the heavens.
He approached OBATALA as he was about to embark on his journey. He cautioned him not to kill any of the AJOGUN ORUN as this will cause a shift in the energy balance in the heavens and it will have a catastrophic effect on all.
He presented OBATALA with two gifts, a cowry as big as a fist and another; the size of an eye.
He enlightened him on the use of the gifts. The small cowry gives sight in darkness while the big cowry was a cloak of darkness. He instructed him to break open the big cowry at the GATE OF DARKNESS. The second cowry was to be placed on one of his eyes as it is the all-seeing eyes of IFA that will grant him sight even in thick darkness.
OBATALA thanked him for his support, took the gifts and went off.
ILE confronted OBATALA as he approached the GATE OF DARKNESS. She mocked him and provided him with a map as commanded by OLODUMARE, where the components were located. OBATALA was silent all through their encounter. This made ILE more furious.
“You will fail this quest and you will dwell beneath the feet of the new creations,” she cursed. She flung the map away and walked off.
OBATALA picked the map and began his journey into the DARKNESS OF THE HEAVENS.

OLODUMARE called upon ORISANLA (OBATALA) in confidence and informed him of the quest before him; before he will embark on the task of creating Mankind.
With effortless gusto and serenity, ORISANLA agreed to go on the quest. He bowed before OLODUMARE in recognition of the great honour.
The components OLODUMARE handed to the deities were; A PIGEON, A HEN and A SHELL OF SNAIL CONTAINING LOOSE EARTH and IGBA IWA (The Calabash of Character) which OLODUMARE specifically handed over to ORUNMILA because of its significance. The IGBA IWA was a component required to make mankind possess the character of OLODUMARE.But he did not mention the nature of the components as the dieties had pleaded with him not to, in a bid to put ORISANLA’s wisdom and insight to the test.
Before he left, OLODUMARE added that the quest before him was arranged by some ORISHAS; that he should be cautious at all times during his quest and he should not be upset with the ORISHAS.
ILE and her cohorts had planned four tasks for ORISANLA; that at the end of each task he would come across the required components for the creation of mankind. The tasks would require that ORISANLA go into the DARKNESS OF HEAVEN, the dwelling place of the AJOGUN ORUN.
The DARKNESS OF HEAVEN was a grim and a gloomy place, a place of immeasurable opacity. It was the home of the AJOGUN ORUN – THE PUNITIVE KNIGHTS OF HEAVEN. It was a dangerous place.
With ORUNMILA drawn in, ILE predicted that the scheme in place was going to suffer a minor blow. He had never hidden his distaste for ILE’s campaign. Expecting a pessimistic outcome, ILE met with him to let him in on the plan in place for ORISANLA’s quest.
ORUNMILA, clearly disgusted, looked in awe as ILE rehashed the plan. ILE, undeterred, articulated the plan subtly in a bid to rationalize it for a fair hope of changing ORUNMILA’s stance. ORUNMILA vehemently disagreed with the scheme.
“I won’t be party to such absurdity,” he said, as he walked away.
As stipulated in the agreement with OLORUN; ILE informed OBATALA that the last component was in ORUNMILA’s charge that he would get it after recovering the other three components. She did not reveal the nature of the components, to make the quest trickier.
At every location where the components were placed, THE PUNITIVE KNIGHTS OF HEAVEN (AJOGUN ORUN) were placed to guard the components.