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    1) A series of meetings between divinities to hold feasts ended disastrously as the hosts lost children to convulsions each time, disrupting the planned feasts. 2) Before hosting his own feast, Orunmila made sacrifices advised by divination to appease Esu, the god of chaos. 3) At Orunmila's feast, his children fell ill but recovered when the divinities arrived, and mysterious images were seen dancing, having been relieved of causing harm by Orunmila's sacrifices. Esu still disrupted the food for the feast.

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    1) A series of meetings between divinities to hold feasts ended disastrously as the hosts lost children to convulsions each time, disrupting the planned feasts. 2) Before hosting his own feast, Orunmila made sacrifices advised by divination to appease Esu, the god of chaos. 3) At Orunmila's feast, his children fell ill but recovered when the divinities arrived, and mysterious images were seen dancing, having been relieved of causing harm by Orunmila's sacrifices. Esu still disrupted the food for the feast.

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    IFISM -The Complete Works of Orunmila

    was prepared to take his threat seriously, Esu withdrew from the meeting. There after
    Orisa-Nia told the other divinities to be prepared for his feast at the next meeting.

    On the appointed day, Orisa-Nia had prepared an elaborate feast of inexhaustible


    food and drinks, and the table was set. As soon as they were all assembled, Orisa-Nia
    brought out kolanuts to pray. As he was breaking the kolanuts, there was screaming,
    yelling, and hysteria from Orisa-Nia's harem. Two of his young children had been
    attacked by convulsion and before help could reach them, they died. The feast was
    subsequently abandoned, giving way to gloom and misery.

    At the next meeting, it was the turn of Ogun, and the same incident was repeated as
    the host lost two children to convulsion, which subsequently disrupted the feast from
    materializing. The incident was repeated in the homes of Olokun, Sango, and Osanyin
    until it came to the turn of Orunmila. Before embarking on his feast,Orunmila made
    divination and was told to make the sacrifice with a he-goat and the bronze images of
    a man, the lead casting of a woman, and the mud images of male and female rabbits.
    He was advised to deposit the images on the shrine of Esu and to shed the blood of
    the he-goat on them. After making the sacrifice, he proceeded to prepare for his feast.

    Once again as soon as the divinities were assembled, Orisa-Nia was splitting the
    kolanuts when an uproar was heard from the backyard of Orunmila's house. Two of
    his children, a boy, and a girl had developed convulsions, but as soon as the divinities
    came out to see them, the children sneezed and became well. Esu had meanwhile
    relieved them of the convulsion in deference to the sacrifice he made. At the same
    time, they saw the bronze image of the man dancing with the lead image of the
    woman while the mud images of male and female rabbits were also dancing at the
    rubbish dump (Etitan or Otiku) at the back of Orunmila's house. While they were
    watching the mysterious images, Esu invited fowls and goats to destroy the food
    prepared for the feast which thus became a non-event

    At that point, Esu reappeared to renew his boast that unless they all conceded
    seniority to him by inviting him to start the feasting, none of them would succeed in
    hosting one effectively There being no other option left. Esu. was invited to host the
    next feast.

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