Ògbóni

The Ògbóni begins in more than one way. Ọ̀fúnmẹ̀jì came down from Heaven proud, and fell. A woman with no door and a friend who would marry her mended him, and her two eldest children, who nearly destroyed each other, were made to swear on their mother's charm: the Edan. Then the second telling. A town is at war, and a child is born into the hands of fourteen old people. He gives the town an oath, a rule for rumour, and a house in the market. When the people forget, he leaves in one stride, and what is left is the brass. Two accounts of one fraternity, from Osamaro Ibie's Ifism and Ayọ̀ Ṣàlámì's Yorùbá Theology and Tradition, told with the Yorùbá ẹsẹ.