TALES FROM TIMES BEFORE (EPISODE ONE)

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If Akinbo had known it would end, he would have heeded the warnings of his town people.

“Which of you here helped my father marry my mother? Akinbo demanded of his town people who were gathered in front of his house that fateful day.

They answered, “None.”

He looked into their faces, one by one and challenged further, “Did anyone here lend my father money to marry my mother?”

Again they answered, “No”

“My mother then fully belonged to my father. My father is dead, and everything he owned now belongs to me. My mother is part of that inheritance. I have decided to marry her.”

“Ha! You can’t marry your own mother!”

“It is forbidden to marry the woman who bore you!” protested one man.

“You see, it is not right for you to turn around and marry the woman who gave you birth, and suckled you,” an older woman reasoned.

“No man marries his own mother. Aki i se e! It is not done!” insisted a middle aged woman.

“It is a taboo!” an older woman declared.

“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 those who do not listen or take heed see,” quietly warned a dignified, white-haired man.

Akinbo was determined to have his way.

“I am at liberty to marry my mother, and I will” he contended. And he did.

When the townspeople heard that he had done this thing, their condemnation was thunderous. Eewo, the one who forbids, heard the tumult and he came out to find out what it was all about.

“Ha! Ha! Ha!” He cried in alarm, in his reedy voice that seemed to come out from the back of his nose. “What were you people looking when this person was considering this moral depravity?”

“We told him that it is wrong!” many protested, flinging out their hands as if to absolve themselves of any blame.

“We warned him that it is forbidden” others maintained.

“Oh, so you thought that your advice and warnings would stop him, did you? What made you suppose that you could handle this situation yourselves anyway? Did it not occur to you to consult me, the one who forbids, before this person did this forbidden thing? You all know, of course, that what is forbidden is forbidden! Well, since you relied so much on your own ability to cope with the situation, I had better leave you to sort things out,” and Eewo went home, packed some of his belongings, and traveled out of town.

“You see now! You see how things have turned out! We are now blamed for the misdeed of this reprobate!” lamented an elderly man.

“What is forbidden is indeed forbidden as Eewo has reminded, and we told him as much!” defend another man.

“It always comes to this. We the elders are always blamed for the misconduct of these perverse youths. We are always asked, “What were you elders looking at when the youths among you were going astray?” an older man complained.

“What c-c-can we d-do now th-th-that the d-d-deed is alrea-d-dy done?” stammered a bewildered man.

One thing is certain. We must not…to be continued on Saturday

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