TALES FROM TIMES BEFORE (EPISODE FIVE)

STORY SERIES

…avenge any transgression against what I say is forbidden.” And Eewo walked on home.

The townspeople all rushed to the stream. There, floating on top of the water for all to see were five bodies of Akinbo, his mother and his three sons. The people stood there

horrified.

“Five people perished because of one man’s willfulness,” grieved one woman, shaking her head sorrowfully

“It is those innocent boys that I am sorry for,” lamented another woman.

“As fruits of a forbidden union, they too have been destroyed, otherwise they will come to contaminate our community,” a forceful young man declared.

“Marry your own mother indeed! Psheew,” spat an elderly woman, in disgust

“Asheey, when they say it is wrong to marry one’s mother, this is what it means!” exclaimed a teenage boy.

“Now be warned!” an older man quickly confirmed his observation.

They all ran back to town to tell the Oba the outcome of that forbidden union of long ago, between Akinbo and his mother.

“May the one we counsel listen, May the one we counsel take heed. If the one we counsel does not listen or take heed, his eyes will see what Akinbo’s eye have seen. I told you that Eewo would eventually avenge this abomination. You see how he has done it? What is forbidden is forbidden! Reminded the dignified, white-haired man, who now turned around and walked home…To be continued on Tuesday.

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