domenica 1 agosto 2010

Shango didn't hang - (Oba Koso)

Once upon a time in the Yoruba kingdom, there was a powerful king called Shango, and as time went on, some of his army generals and counsellors became so powerful in the land that they constrained him to abduct.
The mutiny was so great and few loyal friends, counsellors and army wanted to fight to maintain him in power, but Shango knew that will blow into a bloody civil war, so he decided to step down. He was sent into exile by the new ruling council, so he took his loyal people with him and left the reign.
As they journeyed on, many other men left him one by one and returned to Oyo city. When he had only few of them left, for sadness, anguish and fear to continue alone the journey by himself, went aside from them, and decided to terminate the agony.

While they were sleeping, he committed suicide by hanging. In those days it was a shame for anyone to hang himself, how much more if that person was a king.
When in the morning his men found out that he had passed away, they secretly buried him, and
all present sworn an oath to keep the secret of Shango’s hanging, but for one reason or the other, the secret leaked to the public, and people in the kingdom began to make joke of their late king.
Shango’s loyal men did all they could to deny the news: many argued that he died a natural death, while others proclaimed that he was still alive in a northern country.
When many people still continued to mock the memory of Shango, his friends decided to punish all those that maintained that the king hanged himself.
When it rained, these friends will go and set fire on the houses, and burn down the huts of the people that continued ridiculed the memory of Shango.
Since then, Shango who had become a powerful deity of justice, striking with lightning and thunder all those that lie, and didn’t tell the truth!


The End.
          
          Yoruba Proverbs.

  • Lots of wives mean lots of troubles, it the follows that It’s better to give birth to a clever  child than a thousand of stupid children.
  • One needs to try two husbands or wives to know which is better. (It’s takes two different situations before knowing which is better)
  •  Sometimes a treatment that occurs to the wife is likely to occur to the mistress. 
 



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