TALES FROM TIMES BEFORE (EPISODE FOUR)

STORY SERIES

…noted that his brothers were not around, but he saw the gourd floating on the stream. He had no time to waste. He knew that if he did not return home immediately he would be in trouble. He waded straight away into the stream after the gourd. Eewo let the gourd glide further out on the stream until the boy lost his footing, floundered and

drowned. Eewo did not allow his body to float on the stream.

Akinbo’s throat was now raging with thirst. “How about you?” he turned to his mother. “Why can’t you go and fetch me water when you can see that your good-for-nothing sons are dawdling! I will have time to deal with them yet, but you push off at once and fetch me that water!”

Akinbo’s mother shouted the names of the three boys all the way to the stream, threatened to punish them as they had never before been punished. When she reached the stream, she found none of the boys there, but the gourd was floating on it, “Wait until I lay my hands on you, you lazy boys, causing so much trouble over fetching a small gourdful of water.

“Aaahhh!” she screeched when she lost he footing as she waded determinedly toward the floating gourd. She fell into the water with arms outstretched. She too was smothered until she drowned, and her body was kept hidden under the water.

Akinbo was now stark raving mad with thirst. When his mother did not return, he stormed down the path leading to the stream, cursing and fuming. He broke off the stem of a young plant to trash his family with when he caught up with them. When he reached the stream he found no one there, but that did not matter now. He sighted the gourd floating on the stream. He stretched his hand out to grab it, but it slipped through his fingers and flitted out of reach. He waded after it, but the gourd continued to spin and drift, until, in exasperation, Akinbo let it go. He bent over with cupped hands, to scoop water into his parched mouth. It was at this moment that Eewo released the bodies of his mother and three sons. They surfaced around him, as his cupped hands were about to scoop water into his mouth. Horrified, Akinbo staggered backward, and fell into the water and was drowned.

Eewo got out of that stream, dried himself, and set off for the town. When the townspeople saw him coming, they gathered around him expectantly.

“When I, Eewo, say something is forbidden, take it from me that it is forbidden!” he asserted. “Go to the stream and see for yourselves the fate that can befall a person who marries his own mother. I Eewo will… To be continued on Saturday.

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