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…alone.
Those cackles of laughter coming from inside the forest were the sound of other
women too. He had heard women merrymaking not far from the hole from which he
had removed the buffalo skin. He had not risked checking on them; however, he
just wanted to get out of that forest quickly with the buffalo skin.
On
returning home to where she had kept her buffalo skin, Araka, for that was the
mysterious woman’s name, put her hand into the clump of the bush to recover it.
It was not there. Alarmed, she searched the clump of bush frantically, and then
more systematically, neither of which method produced the skin. She was frantic
and cried bitterly, her friends had since gone, and she was now all alone in
the deep forest. In the end, she abandoned the fruitless search. She concluded
that an unknown person had deliberately removed the skin. That was when she
noticed footprints going away from the clump of bush. It had rained heavily the
night before and the ground was soft and yielding. Araka followed the wide
apart footprints as best as she could. And it led out of the forest.
As she
walked along, Araka thought through the events of her life. “If it had not been
for Ogun, I would not have left heaven at all” she moaned. “When he decided to
come down to earth where everything was sublime, and where I had all my
friends. But he had said that he had given his word to Olodumare that he would
come down to earth with Orunmila, Obatala and Sango.
What
was a wife to do? So I …To be continued on Thursday.
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