Saint from the Grave

In my home town, hunters are upheld in high esteem even more than the King himself. Wives and children of these hunters were well fed because they had the largest share of the meat. In my home town when a male child is born, that child does not suck his mother's breast. It is a taboo, hence they see it as a weakness. Sucking a whitish liquid from a woman would make them weak, rather the milk from a cow is given to that child. The hunters value animals more, so they believe that milk from an animal makes the child stronger. Sometimes women hide to breast feed their male child and if she is seen, her and her baby would be stoned to death. Most male children are affected because this leads to sudden infant death syndrome and lots of infectious diseases because the milk from cows is not sterilized.

Amongst the successful hunters in my home town is Jakun. He has three wives. He was tall, handsome and most above all very proud, wicked, snatched people's wives, forcedly took people's land and did all sorts of wicked and inhumane acts. He was above the law and he didn't get punished for any wrong that he did. The king was on his side because he always gave the king huge gifts of meat . My home town was called land of meat because it's rare to find a family lacking meat, although one might be lacking money but not meat. OLAFA has been the Chi in my home town for ages .Chi means god. OLAFA is a god of hunters, he helps the hunters catch the biggest animal in every hunt .

Division came amongst us when a group of missionaries came to spread what they called the Gospel. They said interesting things and always gave people that always came to listen to them food items and money .They talked about another Chi that lived up in the sky, they said He died for us a long time ago. At first some of their new converts were confused .These missionaries kept spreading the gospel till they had eaten deep into the hearts of some of the villagers especially the women. Some of them stopped worshipping OLAFA . They stop giving him gifts of meat and money. OLAFA became angry with this missionary and their born again Christian converts.

Jakun the wicked hunter and his group went to the king, he gave his order that they should slay these Christian converts like the way they slew animals that enter hunters trap. Jakun and his crew went to the small hut the missionaries raised as church and killed some of the new converts .

He gathered their bodies and burnt it as an offering to OLAFA. Two days passed Jakun slept and didn't Wake up. the villagers said it was so impossible when they heard of Jakun's death . No one had a clue of what had happened to him. As an honor to him and his family Jakun was buried near the king's palace .

A few days ago a woman named Uma from another town scolded her child for leaving the Ofee seeds she left outside, some birds had eaten it and flew away. These birds drop some of the Ofee seeds on Jakun's grave and two weeks later flowers with a sweet scent started growing on Jakun's grave. It drew people's attention to the extent that the missionaries came to examine Jakun's grave . A lot of strange things started happening. People that used the flowers of the sweet scent got healed from sickness and when they came to the grave and said their prayers it was answered.

The new christian converts of the missionaries assumed him to be what the missionaries called Saint, the situation was questionable, most especially from whose grave it came from but because benefits were gained everyone kept quiet .OLAFA the Chi that was abandoned used this opportunity to possess the grave of Jakun.

The villagers worshipped OLAFA indirectly, they had no idea of what OLAFA had done. Even when the missionaries tried to stop their new converts from such acts telling them that people are not just made saints, that series of tests and confirmation need to be done but all these pleas fell on deaf ears .

For years people worshipped OLAFA indirectly, until one day a child was born with his palms glued together. His parents were worried and tried everything possible under the surface of the earth till they took him to the famous Jakun's grave to see if he would be healed. He got healed but died after three days.

OLAFA started dealing with the villagers. He caused hardship in the land, the young women didn't get married and stayed in their fathers house while young children died mysteriously. A lot of strange things happened in the land. They want to seek help from OLAFA, they had no idea that he was the cause of their problems.

All the solutions they sought from him proved abortive. Until one night in a dream Jakun came to his first wife. He explained to her the truth about everything that had happened to him. That night that he slept and couldn't wake up in the morning, he was in a dream when he met a man on a roadside and the man asked him why he killed his people and why he oppressed some of the poor villagers, the man also told him to make his way right and so he promised the man to make his ways right in the dream as it was getting dark. So the man asked him to spend the night with him in his hut which he did.

He ate and drank with the man too, he got drunk and slept off after several hours of sleeping he woke up only to find himself in a casket. It was so stuffy that he couldn't call for help. He discovered that it's already three days he has been buried and was so annoyed with his family . Jakun told his wife to return all the things that he had forcefully taken from people and they should stop using his grave as a worship center because OLAFA is the one causing the calamity in their land.

Next morning when Jakun's wife woke up she explained her dream to her co wives and what their husband had said. They all did as Jakun had told them to do, they also told the villagers the dream and they stopped using Jakun's grave as a worship center and in a space of two weeks ,things came back to normal. Everyone was happy with the development of things.

Thank you for reading lovelies, I wish you a lovely day from here. See you in my next post and bye for now.

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