INYI: The boy picked beside the iroko tree
Many years ago in the land of oré, there was born a boy with six fingers and six toes.
As at that time it was considered an abomination in the land for a child to be born with six fingers and six toes. For any child born of that trait is been casted away into the forest far from the village.
When Inyi was born, his parents had no choice but to cast him away, they took him to the forest and kept him beside an iroko tree and left him there to his fate.
Inyi lay beside the iroko tree in Oji. For two days he cried and cried but no one came to rescue him.
The second day in the evening, A hunter was passing through the Iroko tree in Oji and found the little baby who was abandoned by his parents. The hunter took pity on him and carried him to his house.
The hunter took Care of the boy Inyi as a son and Inyi lacked nothing. The hunter later became the ruler of Oji Kingdom.
Among the sons of the hunter, Inyi grew more stronger and smarter than the biological sons of Oji.
Inyi did the farm works, fed the animals and many other things.
When the hunter grew old, the Eze Mmuo(Chief Priest) asked the hunter to bring forth all his sons as the gods wants to selected a new king after him from them.
Then as the tradition of the land the king brought forth all his children except for Inyi the child he picked beside the big iroko tree.
The Eze mmuo told the children to put their hands in the pot in front of them filled with soldier ants. The soldier ants were visible and coming out of the pots.
The King's children were too scared and non could put their Hands in the soldier hands pot. The Eze Mmuo(Chief Priest) was surprised, he knew that the gods can never lie. So again he asked the king, Are this all your sons? The king said yes. These are all my sons. The Eze Mmuo pointed at the young boy who was rearing goats at the back of the kings house.
What about this boy? The Eze Mmuo asked. His name is Inyi, He is not my son, he is just a boy I picked from the iroko tree down the outcast of the village. The king said, But the Eze Mmuo demanded that the king brings the boy forth and he asked the boy to put his hands in the pot filled with soldier ants, and without fear the Inyi put his hands inside the pot.
Immediately he was named heir to the kingdom.
Many years later when Inyi became king and named his kingdom after his name Inyi there was a great famine from the land of his birth which he was banish from. The people of the land had to come to Inyi land to seek for food because the land of Inyi became the land with the biggest market among the neighboring villages.
The fate of the people from his birth land was now laid on his hands.
Morals: The rejected stone becomes the chief corner stone.
when we think we are doing evil to someone, God is rather using the Evil we did as the good to that person.
The ways of God is not the ways of man.
As at that time it was considered an abomination in the land for a child to be born with six fingers and six toes. For any child born of that trait is been casted away into the forest far from the village.
When Inyi was born, his parents had no choice but to cast him away, they took him to the forest and kept him beside an iroko tree and left him there to his fate.
Inyi lay beside the iroko tree in Oji. For two days he cried and cried but no one came to rescue him.
The second day in the evening, A hunter was passing through the Iroko tree in Oji and found the little baby who was abandoned by his parents. The hunter took pity on him and carried him to his house.
The hunter took Care of the boy Inyi as a son and Inyi lacked nothing. The hunter later became the ruler of Oji Kingdom.
Among the sons of the hunter, Inyi grew more stronger and smarter than the biological sons of Oji.
Inyi did the farm works, fed the animals and many other things.
When the hunter grew old, the Eze Mmuo(Chief Priest) asked the hunter to bring forth all his sons as the gods wants to selected a new king after him from them.
Then as the tradition of the land the king brought forth all his children except for Inyi the child he picked beside the big iroko tree.
The Eze mmuo told the children to put their hands in the pot in front of them filled with soldier ants. The soldier ants were visible and coming out of the pots.
The King's children were too scared and non could put their Hands in the soldier hands pot. The Eze Mmuo(Chief Priest) was surprised, he knew that the gods can never lie. So again he asked the king, Are this all your sons? The king said yes. These are all my sons. The Eze Mmuo pointed at the young boy who was rearing goats at the back of the kings house.
What about this boy? The Eze Mmuo asked. His name is Inyi, He is not my son, he is just a boy I picked from the iroko tree down the outcast of the village. The king said, But the Eze Mmuo demanded that the king brings the boy forth and he asked the boy to put his hands in the pot filled with soldier ants, and without fear the Inyi put his hands inside the pot.
Immediately he was named heir to the kingdom.
Many years later when Inyi became king and named his kingdom after his name Inyi there was a great famine from the land of his birth which he was banish from. The people of the land had to come to Inyi land to seek for food because the land of Inyi became the land with the biggest market among the neighboring villages.
The fate of the people from his birth land was now laid on his hands.
Morals: The rejected stone becomes the chief corner stone.
when we think we are doing evil to someone, God is rather using the Evil we did as the good to that person.
The ways of God is not the ways of man.