Date: April 16, 2021, 07:58:29 AM
Home of Satan found in Ekiti: Culture : Nigerialog.com - Nigeria's Premier Online Forum
“Any monarch he wrestled with and defeated, died and he moved on to another town in Ekiti land to wrestle with yet another monarch, until he got to Elejelu of Ijelu who, through the help of some rituals of appeasement to Ifa, defeated him. This made Esu Ijelu to eventually make Ijelu his home.“As soon as he was floored on the wrestling spot, he vowed to remain in the town not as human but as a deity, and disappeared into our earth at the spot. He reappeared behind the king’s palace and that spot has become his shrine till date. It has since been called Odo Oro, meaning home of the deity.”Recanting Esu Ijelu’s words shortly after his defeat and before he joined the ancestors as a deity, the monarch said in Yoruba: “Eleju o daa mi. Lati eni lo, Ijelu ni ma ma gbe o. Masi ma ran yin lowo.” Meaning: “Elejelu, you have defeated me. From today, I will remain here and help your people at all times.” He added: “While he was saying this, he was shedding blood from one of his eyes and tears from the other of eye.“Ijelu, though was a town of very powerful warriors, armed with very potent charms, but was ravaged by constant wars. Esu Ijelu, once made a deity, used his powers to assist our men in war fronts and reduced the number of times the wars sacked our town to 13.“During the time our town was sacked, many of our people migrated to other towns in Yoruba land and the North. This is why you have them in Oke Aremo in Ibadan, Ikun, Orin Ido in Ido-Ekiti, Abeokuta and Ikorodu, Ilofa in Kwara State, Aramoko-Ekiti and other places.“Esu Ijelu deity assisted many Ijelu indigenes who joined the army and fought during the civil war such that none of our children died in the war front.”