Awero and Adidas's marriage was actually six months older than Ania and Oke. When Awero was carrying her first baby, Aina was in her race of struggles to meet the gods for procreation. During these struggles, the marital life of the couple was also surrounded by aura of despair. despite their earnest efforts and consultations, they were unable to receive their own fruit of the womb from the gods. The kind of mother's joy attached to child bearing was not there and because of this, Aina was completely eluded from the circle of motherhood.
As Awero continued to live in her delirious lifestyle of as nursing mother, Aina was out of hers. Their marital life was bestrode with joy and pleasantness start to carry despair and woeful perception hanging on it. Their enthusiastic effort to get at least one child kept Ania an Oke immersed in unconscious consultations of less popular herbalist to the most popular traditional doctors to repudiate what fate had brought to their doorstep. They searched for sincere solution to their long State of barreness, they ended up in baba Ifakale's hut.
Before that Ania and Oke has received some strange advise concerning their situation. This had drifted them into uncustomary practices unknown to them of what the future has in store for them was good. They had dug their graves but not ready to step into it and to this led to their Strong believe in Baba ifakale who they thought would change their story.
Baba Ifakale happened to be a man of great and respected integrity. Dishonesty was foreign in his ways of life. He had true an genuine ifa divination in his prophecy. He was fond of treating people equally before ifa shrine. He was always pleased to say the truth of a situation without any form of deceit.
"Good afternoon,Baba, we have come to you for help as were directed by my friend, Abi, from Alapa village" Aina explained after usual greeting.
"You are welcome my children... Kindly do yourselves a favor by unfolding the nature of your mind-disturbing predicament...My god is there to change your sad state of emotion," Baba Ifakale said confidently.
"Thank you wise one..... My wife an I have been long eluded from ordinary sphere of happiness... We have been trusting our god for the fruit of the womb which have made us put every single person around us through hell all in name of having a child, "Oke explained carefully
Baba Ifakale suddenly threw his head backwards and smiles away when couple's problem. Ifakale knew that the problem of childlessness had never been put him through unnecessary stress, because solution to such problem are already at his finger tips. To Ifakale., the inability of people to procreate seemed to be stuff of glitch to his ancestors.
On that day, Ifakale didn't bother asking Oke an Aina some other solutions they had earlier sought before ending up before his ancestors. Baba Ifakale, the wise one from Alapa village but resided at iluju village, engaged in spiritual conversation with the ifa shrine. After some minutes of divination, he received a strange message from the gods. The message was we quite unsual and very heath disturbing. At once, Ifakale stopped his ifa panegyrics and threw his mouth wide open surprisingly.
"........ Ugh....My ancestors and the ifa have spoken......."
" Baba..... Please let's know if there is still hope for us having our own babies, "Aina cut in sharply.
" The message I received from ifa is spiritually strong...... If one gets such message from divination, it signifies bad omen, "Baba Ifakale tried to explain.
"But... Baba, does that mean we are not going to have a child in this life? ".... Oke asked curiously.
"I never said that my children........ You people wer born by some parents so you must also procreate no matter how.... As a matter of fact, nobody has ever stepped into my house with tears without leaving with joy.
"Baba, your utterances are smoothing balm to our aching hearths...... What could be the way out, please? "Aina asked.
" before you can have you can have at least a child to your name, you must carry out some propitiation in broad daylight...
This is very essential because you have sought some strange measures from somewhere else which have made the situation worse. "
"..... Propitiation.... Broad daylight!....?"Oke was surprised.
"......Yes...., this must be done by any male gender as a path leading to any major market place where buying and selling is taking place; Baba Ifakale added.
Baba.....why all these?....We are not yet comfortable with the ritual in broad daylight and you are adding a path leading to a major market" Oke spoke disdrainfully.
" Well... that was all I have for you from ifa..... You will end up not having child only if you people can not Carry out the ritual accordingly.... You can look out for a man of mature mind that can help you perform the ritual if you are scared of doing it," Baba Ifakale spoke to Oke
" We will get back to you after two for the ritual, " Oke explained to Baba Ifakale. They both left as ND planned to engage Adisa to help them perform the ritual. Oke knowing well that Adisa may not engage in such exercise,he planned to transfer his piece of land to him if he can agree to help them out of the ritual mess.