Odewale therefore is adopted and grows up in Ijekun palace taking the king and queen for his real parents. Alaka releases the cowry strings from Odewale’s legs and takes him to his master and queen called Ogundele and Mobike. In the bush, situated at Ipetu, Gbonka rather hands the baby to Alaka, a royal bodyguard from Ijekun who happened to have been hunting there at the time. To avoid these evil events in the land, and with the consent of the parents, the priest of Ogun ties the boy’s legs with a string of cowries and hands him to Gbonka, a royal bodyguard to take to the evil bush and abandon for death as a sacrifice to the gods. Baba Fakunle, a purblind great seer who is called in for the divination pronounces: “This boy, he will kill his father and then marry his mother”. As tradition demands, they take him to the shrine of Ogun for blessings and for the divination of his future. A first baby, male, is born to king Adetusa and Queen Ojuola of Kutuje.
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