He began to run from one town to another until he finally landed at kutuje, a town that had recently lost their king ' a king he himself murdered', king Adetusa. Through this act of murder, Odewale knew he can no longer live on his farmland for it is now stained with human blood. In a last attempt to save his life, Odewale killed the old man by striking him with a hoe. They both fought using their mystical powers but the old man appeared to be more powerful. Again, the old man insulted the village they both believed he had come from but this time, Odewale would not accept such insult. He insulted Odewale by calling him a thief but Odewale did nothing. One day, an old man accompanied by five bodyguards invaded his farmland and claimed the land to be his. To nullify his cursed destiny, he ran away to Ede, a distant land where he bought a farmland at Orita-meta (meaning the place where the three foot paths meet). However, he would not tell him whom his real parents were. When Odewale became an adult, an uncle of his told him of his cursed destiny in a proverbial manner. Gbonka, however went back home to continue his service as the king’s messenger.Īfter two years have passed, Obatala, the god of creation made the queen of kutuje conceive again, and this time she gave birth to another male child which the royal family named Aderopo. Only few people knew that the child wasn’t theirs, but little did they know concerning whom his true parents were. Ogundele and his wife Mobike who had no child cared for Odewale. He failed in his duty and saved the life of the newly born by giving him to a stranger, Ogundele by name, who took the child to another village and served as his foster father there.

The only way to avert this taboo was to kill the yet innocent infant.ĭisobeying the gods of the land through an act of compassion, Gbonka, the king’s special messenger was sent alone to do away with the child in the evil forest. This child will kill his father and marry his own mother. The priest of Ifa, Baba Fakunle (a blind soothsayer) cast his opele and said In fufillment to their custom, the son was taken to the priest of Ifa to tell what the boy’s future would be. In the land of Kutuje, a son was born to King Adetusa and his wife, Queen Ojuola, for they were the king and queen of the land of kutuje. The story is the sad tale of a man named Odewale who has been destined from birth to kill his father and marry his mother.

The gods are not to blame ola rotimi