The Legend of the Ogìsös

The Ogisos are from the vast and ancient origin in the world, an origin with no fixed begining and no foretold end. The origin from a place of pale remembrance and hearty recognition; The origin is the Great kingdom of #Benin
The Ogisos were men born to lead, favored by the gods to rule and bestowed with the authority to discipline. As is written in the historical books of the binis, there were 31 ogisos in the history of Benin before the son of Oramiyan (a descendant of the last Ogiso Owodo, who became a fugitive and left the kingdom to settle down in another land now know as Ife.) #histöiré
Each ogisos had their countenance on them and their aims and objectives were genetically the same but their principles were extremely variant.
Only an ogiso can sit on the throne of the king, no one else could unless the lineage had be cut which of course was impossible. There had to be one left, even though unreliable and criminal minded, only that blood line can head the kingdom. #true
This quest of the ogisos to provide for the kingdom protection and expansivity began with the first Ogiso, nicknamed Ogiso Arhan (fire) by his future friend Ojerhan (mysterious wood).
It all began with the Chief priest Thunder who announced to the sixteenth king of Benin that his blood line would be threatened in the future unless he quickly made changes by appeasing the gods of the land by sacrificing to them as is done in the Origie festival. Human sacrifices were the remedy for the Kingdom’s trouble.
Two years after the sacrifices, the same threat was revealed to ten persons amongst whom were
* Amadasun
* Ogi
* Ebhvota and,
* the king himself.
This troubled the kingdom and many more sacrifices were made to appease the gods. During that period, a thousand young girls were sacrificed and this though slated in the dusts recorded the highest death rate ever since bini’s presupposed origin.
Everybody stayed away from the wrath of the gods and been sacrificed, and no one sought to find a solution to the problem at hand. Since it was the problem of the Royals, let them handle it themselves. People started loosing faith in their king and blaming him for whatever the calamity was that later befell them.
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Arhan and his two brothers, princes of the sixteenth king, accompanied by several others who had the revealation ventured into the evil forest Asön to meet with the ancestors to seek their wisdom.
The king tried his best to restrain his children claiming that this was actually the threat. Going into the evil forest takes forever to come out of and it meant death to any one who dared venture into it. The king went as far as tieing them down to stakes, but the drive in them to go was extremely possessive. It was as though they had no minds of their own to decide. All that was painted in their mind was to go into the evil forest even if it meant their not returning.
Never in history will there be such cooperative #will# to do something that totally spelt their doom.

“An antelope that puts the hunter to the test gets a whole lot of exams to carry out in the hunter’s pot of soup” by Elder Kpoto #truth
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Taken from a book on “the Legend of the Ogisos.” by I-kin
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