•••2024 Ayelala Festival Of Omilere Alaragbo Foundation Worldwide
*HISTORICAL STORY OF AYELALA
According to the president General of Omilere Alaragbo Foundation, HSM, Yeye Osunbunmi Abike (The Yeye OSUN of Ibadan Land, Yeye Erelu Asa Ile Yoruba, Yeye Oge Isese of Oyo State, Olori Abiye of Ogboni Worldwide, Yeye Alaragbo Oodua).
Ayelala is known to be an effective deity that punishes crime of various types. Ayelala is a powerful and widely respected deity because of her capacity and witches caught up in the clutches of Ayelala are known to confess their sins in the open. It could be invoked to unravel the cause of diabolical cause of mysteries.
*AYELALA DEIFIED ANCESTOR.
Ayelala is a good example of a deified ancestor. The deified ancestors were human beings who had lived extra-ordinary and mysterious lives on earth, so much that when they died they were deified as god.
*AYELALA HISTORY.
Ayelala was formally a slave woman who was used for sacrifice over the case of adultery. By the time she was about to be killed, she exclaimed Ayelala (the world is terrible).
*ORIGIN OF AYELALA
Ayelala whose place of origin can be traced to the people of Ilaje in Ondo State, Nigeria. This slave woman was made to bear the consequences of the sin of another who had run to take asylum among the Ijaws; an act which caused serious disaffection between the Ijaws and the Ilajes.
Before sacrificing her, a covenant of reconciliation and ritual kinship was made between the Ilajes and Ijaws on the following terms, among others – Ayelala was to kill any member of the parties to the covenant who plans evil against one another; Ayelala was to punish with death, any member of the two groups who practices stealing, sorcery and witchcraft against each other.
*TYPES OF CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY AYELALA.
There are two types of crimes: namely social and spiritual crimes. Social crimes cover those which upset the societal harmony. Notable among such crimes are adultery, fighting, lying, stealing, ego centrism and similar ones.
Spiritual crimes are viewed with more seriousness. They include: incest, murder, suicide, killing sacred animals, occult killing, witchcraft killing, unmasking and masquerades.
A victim of robbery would go to a shrine and ask the goddess to sanction the culprit in a particular fashion and would promise rewards to the goddess. The culprit, possessed by Ayelala would make his way to the shrine and confess. Most often, series of strange deaths may occur in the culprit’s family.
In 2005, when the Oba market in Benin City went up in flames, the hoodlums in the area had a field day; looting traders belongings in the market and breaking into many shops not affected by the fire were emptied by looters.
However, when a service of Ayelala was employed and the announcement was made that the looters should return the goods they have stolen or face the wrath of Ayelala, the goods earlier carted away resurfaced in the market in the following day. Those that refused to return the goods were killed by Ayelala. Most Benin City dwellers are contented that the looters “got their rewards.”
Ayelala may also be placed in an agricultural farm land, Ayelala is often placed in a farm land or plantation to forestall loss of farm products to thieves.
Ayelala infests thieves and trespassers in its domain with mumps – a disease that causes terrible swelling of all body parts. The offender would not get any relief until he confesses and brings back all items stolen from the farm.
Ayelala can be invoked to sanction an oath made between two parties. Oath taking in the traditional sense is a condition where total loyalty or adherence to certain agreement and conditionality is prescribed and administered in the beneficiaries of the agreement and the exercise is usually fetish.
Anyone who has taken such oath will not escape the punishment or sanction of a particular supernatural force or deity if the oath is broken. Oath taking is usually done at the Ayelala’s shrine.
*AYELALA DEITY INVOCATION
According to Mama Alaragbo, OSUNBUNMI ABIKE, the process involved in the invocation of Ayelala deity required some material things and processes. To invoke Ayelala deity, there must be a cock or duck, white cloth, seven needles, seven parrot feathers, seven alligator peppers,Gin, kolanut and seven native chalks. All these ingredients will be concealed in the stomach of the cock or duck and wrapped with the white cloth.
The cock will be eventually soaked in the Ayelala water and a curse will be pronounced on the evil doer. When the evil doer is caught by the deity he or she will swell as the cock or duck swells in the water.Ayelala is highly praised and highly revered.
*AYELALA DEITY PRAISES.
Praise, praise, praise,Mother, mother, mother,The Very mother, the very mother, the very mother.
Hail! Chief of the mothers: the mighty and awesome Queen.She who baths in gin like the foreign men,She who takes vengeance when the evil – doer has been forgotten,She, who can never be guilty when she takes action,May it be so.
*AYELALA DEITY POWERS
Ayelala prowess and power is a credit to women folk. However, it should be noted that influence of Ayelala has been seriously limited among the Yoruba people as a result of introducing “Civilization.
Civilization is just another concept of domination; imposition of incoming new culture over traditional cultural values. Ayelala values in areas of social justice and social order have been seriously affected by the Western culture and foreign Religious.
The symbol of ayelala is a cross this cross can be found in benin, even before the arrival of the Portuguese among the benin people and even depicted on bronze it is not a Christian cross but an indigenous cross, ayelala is a benin idol just as olokun, and ogboni, they are not new, they are only new to the yoruba people.
Watch how the yorubas will start to coin the yoruba etymology of the word ayelala to defend their points, but history is clear enough the cross on the ayelala symbol is that of been.
Note: After benin were ayelala is mostly worship the next is ondo and ekiti state were benin descendants can also be found unlike the other parts of yoruba.
But Mama OSUNBUNMI ABIKE THE PRESIDENT GENERAL OF OMILERE ALARAGBO. YEYE OSUN IBADAN LAND, YEYE ERELU ASA ILE YORUBA,. YEYE OGE ERELU OF OYO STATE, OLORI ABIYE OF OGBONI WORLDWIDE, YEYE ALARAGBO OODUA, Is working brilliantly to take it to the whole world as Religion.
Aye means the name of the idol, lala means loud Putting this two together it gives aye-sounding message Ayellala is used to curse who so ever has stolen, lied, and people that do evi, l no evil doer can step in the shrine of ayelala or even a witch….. They will freeze
*RE: AYELALA WITNESS
One happened in isheri osun lagos state where a woman’s shop was burgled and goods worth millions stolen. The woman cried out that she took loan to buy the goods. Later she consulted some traditionalists and 7 days later, the sky turned briefly dark all of a sudden and there was drizzle, next was a loud thunder strike and 3 men were lying dead at the front of the woman’s shop with all the goods on them. It was shocking and everyone was warned not to touch them or the properties.
Traditionalists came doing some sacrifices before the woman’s goods were restored and police took the corpses away. Is that Ayelala too.
It legit I remembered someone stealing a bike from a mechanic workshop they all went to invoke ayelala to put water in the stomach of anyone who stole it and within 3 days na one fine Bobo with him mama come beg the guy stomach was big like rubber the mechanic had to pity them and took him to ijebu where the mama spent close to N250,000 for him to be back to normal Ayelala is a powerful god of instant justice and vengeance, once it is invoked death comes knocking on the door step of whoever is guilty.
The above picture is so scaring. I hope there is no one. facing this situation and angry gran community can help more the poor.
*DEDICATION OF 2024 FESTIVAL.
The real value of a raw gold remains hidden and untapped without the Goldsmith. Therefore I seem it fit to dedicate this year Festival to God Almighty and to individuals whose lives, through my contacts with them, moulded my life to produce the best in me spiritually and physically, notable among them are the Ooni of Ile Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, Oba Adekunle Okunoye Eburu Ilu Iba and his royal Cabinets, Chairman Ifelodun Local Government, Baale Ayegun Oleyo, Baale Olayemi Kabiru,The Asoju Ooni of Ife, High Chief Taiwo Awodele Ibile, all board member, Omilere Alaragbo global foundation, All the media and my love ones.