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| OLALEKAN ODUNTAN |
Of all the corpuses of Ifa , Eji Ogbe is seen as the head or
father of them all. It is this corpus of Ifa that talks about the origin of
creation and its first inhabitants. It also talks about the four elements that
make up life and they are the earth, the water, the air and the fire .Ejiogbe
says the mother earth gave birth to water while the water in turn gave birth to
the air. The air finally gave birth to the fire. And these four elements begged
the creator for relevance in life and
the creator asked them to sacrifice two squirrels , two fishes and two hens for
this purpose .They did and thereafter sand was given to the world . But one day
the sand begged the creator for relevance and usefulness, and the creator asked
her to sacrifice two squirrels, two fishes and two hens for her wish to be
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accomplished. She did this and thereafter the first man known as Akoda (Adam)
was molded and blew life into by the creator. From then on, Adam was left alone
with other creatures of the creator like the trees, the birds, the rivers, the
animals, the sun, the moon, the stars etc . But the first man too got tired of
loneliness in the world and begged the creator for a partner that would be
assisting him in the world. And the creator asked him too to sacrifice two squirrels,
two fishes and two hens for this purpose which he did. After the first woman
known as Aseda (Eve) was created from the right ribs of the first man Akoda
(Adam). Ejiogbe further says that the first man (Adam) and the first woman
(Eve) were then left all alone to themselves in the world by their creator, an
idea which they did not like as time went on. So, one day, they begged their
creator for childbearing and the creator asked them to sacrifice two squirrels
, two fishes and two hens so that their wish could be accomplished . They did
this and thereafter mated to give birth to all sorts of colored people in the
world today. Be it white, red , black or indigo colored people , we are all
children of Adam and Eve . From then on they have been paying home age to the
first man (Adam) and the first woman (Eve). Conclusively Ejiogbe is the
beginning of creation and everything in it.
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