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The hidden secrets of God's in thick forest is a real life story of a community. The elite in the community documented the storyline; and the story was later acted in a movie, theater and cinema.
At The end of the year, they organized a cinema in the community to watch the movie.
When I was in the community, my brothers did give me the cinema ticket every year they came home.
This is the cinema storyline;
The name of the gods is called okegbami that's, the hill saved me. The name of the community was named after the gods ‘okegbami’.
There was a hunter in those days called ‘Akile’. A warrior, a man of valor who was very powerful. He killed different types of animals- lion, tiger, leopard, antelope and more.
Akile could be in the forest for a month, leaving his family and children.
Akile was living far from okegbami forest. Okegbami was a thick forest that no one could enter. Okegbami forest was full of different spirits; It was a fairy land, no one has ever gone to the forest and came back except Akile the great hunter.
Akile was unconscious the first time he entered the forest.
It was a god of the land that took Akile to the land unconsciously. He was hunting that night, and was attacked by spirits. Akile fought with those spirits for 8 hours but couldn't prevail against them.
After 48 hours, Akile saw himself sleeping comfortably inside a big tree.
When he woke up, he said where am I?
The gods of the land laughed, “I'm the god of this land, I saved your father and your grandfather from the wars".
Akile looked terrified, " you don't need to be terrified Akile, I saved you in the hands of the spirit of ‘oluwere’ yesterday. You were about to die when I got there.”
Replied Akile,"thank you”.
Okegbami- "your father, Awoyo, and grandfather okungbe were good people; apart from your family, I killed everyone that entered this land because humans are wicked. After I saved the land from war, I, my wife and my sons were captured. I was chained for 1,500 years by the community. They took my sons and wife from me. Up till now I did not see my family; and that is the reason I promised to Kill anyone entering this forest.”
Akile was muted, “you don't need to be afraid of me, your family were really good people: you are saved in this forest from anything. You
After Akile spent two months in the forest, he was healed and healthy.
Replied Akile, “I'm going home today".
Akile, “ok, I will give you one previous thing today and whenever you need my help. don't hesitate to call me by using what I gave you today."
Akile replied, “thank you."
Okegbami land and where Akile was living was a two weeks and three days journey.
When Akile got his village, his village was invaded, and there was no one in the village. The whole village was killed, when he got home, he only saw the carcasses of his wife and children.
He cried, “why!!!" Until 3 full days. He neither ate nor drank for Three days.
He headed back to the forest after three days. Okegbami accepted him and he was living in the forest.
After a year, he went to a village and married a woman called Ewatomi. Just as the name implied, ‘beauty’, the woman was very beautiful; they were living in the forest. Ewatomi gave birth to 5 children, 4 boys and a girl. He married another young woman, and her name was iniola. Iniola gave birth to 6 children, three boys and three girls.
That was the genenis of Okegbami community!
After three hundred and fifty years, the land was full of human beings- old, young, and children.
Despite the young ones not being trained for war, the community had never lost to war.
Okegbami community was untouchable. No community was ready to fight war against them; the community was a fair and a terror to other communities. Since the community could not be conquered, other communities and villages sought favor from them. The peace in the community brought development to the land. The investors believed that their businesses were saved as a result of peace in the community.
That was how investors from different places troop in.
A big shrine was built for the gods called okegbami; only Akile descendants are the people in-charge to do ritual and sacrifice up till today.
People came from far places to seek the face of the gods in business, career, marriage, wealth and more. It is believed that whatever you wanted, the gods would give you.
Okegbami is celebrated by okegbami dwellers up till date. The ‘gods’ is celebrated every year, the people from the community come home to celebrate the gods.
Okegbami is now center of commerce!
I stand up for success, and success is not achieved by merely making mouth, No room for laziness, no room for idleness. Success comes to the people who are desperately and consciously searching for it. When it seems unsuccessful or you smell failure around you, never discourage yourself from being successful.
“Discouragement and failure are the two surest stepping stones to success.” - Dale
Thank you for reading my post.This is #aprilinleo Day 13.