MOREMI, THE YORUBA FEMALE LEGEND

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Some women are so powerful than the menfolks and they perform wonders that dwarfs that of men in Yorubaland.
There is no how the story of Ile Ife will be told without the mention of the historic deed of a woman called Moremi who did not allow the kingdom to have become history by now.
Where men failed to secure Ife from the claws of the enemies, Moremi succeeded using her beauty and also sacrificing her only begotten son, Olurogbo, as sacrifice so that her people will not perish.
Moremi was said to be the wife of King Oranmiyan of Ife. She was said to be beautiful and a virtuous woman.
42 feet statue of Ile Ife female legend, Moremi Ajasoro
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Ife people was at the time of Moremi and Oranmiyan faced with constant raids and enslavement of its people from adjourning tribe known as the forest people, Igbo people but not Igbo of the eastern part of Nigeria. The Igbo people were said to appear to Ife people as weird on battlefield that they were thought to be aliens. They believed they were sent by the gods to punish them for some evil deeds they might have committed.
Sacrifices were offered to the gods in vain as the invasion persisted and the land was thrown into a state of panic.
As a mother to Ife nation, Moremi could no longer stand the invasion of her people by the aliens so she seek the face of her river god and asked for guidance on how to end raid and conquer the aliens. She made a vow by the water that if she was able to conquer the aliens, she will offer the most expensive sacrifice she could to the river god, Esimirin.

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