See woman who married 51 husbands and still counting
This is weird especially in this part of the world where a woman is expected to have a husband at a particular time if at all she wants to remarry but that is unlike this woman, Yeyemoolu.
Yeyemoolu was the first wife of Oduduwa, the father of Yoruba race, unfortunately she was childless. In order that her husband will have children of his own she was alleged to have advised him to marry her best friend. After much persuasion her husband agreed. He married her best friend who bore him children and ended up mocking her friend Yeyemoolu for her childlessness. When she couldn’t take the mockery from her best friend any longer, Yeyemoolu Oduduwa and friend that she will do something that will make her live forever
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Yeyemoolu, first wife of first Ooni of Ife, Oduduwa who turned to a well for being called barren
She sank into the ground and turned to a well. Though this happened many centuries ago, she still plays significant roles in the lives of Yoruba people till date.
She is the first wife of every Ooni of Ife that has reigned in Ile Ife after her husband. No Ooni of Ife ever enters the palace for the first time without her consent. Water from the well is said to be used to wash the feet of every new Ooni before he steps into the palace premises and that is the only time water is taken out of the groove of Yeyemoolu.
Yeyemoolu was the first wife of Oduduwa, the father of Yoruba race, unfortunately she was childless. In order that her husband will have children of his own she was alleged to have advised him to marry her best friend. After much persuasion her husband agreed. He married her best friend who bore him children and ended up mocking her friend Yeyemoolu for her childlessness. When she couldn’t take the mockery from her best friend any longer, Yeyemoolu Oduduwa and friend that she will do something that will make her live forever
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Yeyemoolu, first wife of first Ooni of Ife, Oduduwa who turned to a well for being called barren
She sank into the ground and turned to a well. Though this happened many centuries ago, she still plays significant roles in the lives of Yoruba people till date.
She is the first wife of every Ooni of Ife that has reigned in Ile Ife after her husband. No Ooni of Ife ever enters the palace for the first time without her consent. Water from the well is said to be used to wash the feet of every new Ooni before he steps into the palace premises and that is the only time water is taken out of the groove of Yeyemoolu.
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