In accordance with the tradition of the people, Odewale marries the widowed queen with whom he gets four children. In gratitude, the people of Kutuje make him king- a vacancy left by the death of Kutuje’s former king. He, with his strength and courage, rallies the Kutuje people and they defeat the enemies. Scared of having shed blood, Odewale runs away from Ede, and arrives at Kutuje at the time the Kutuje people are being invaded by Ikolu. By so doing, Odewale unknowingly kills his real father (patricidal regicide), thus fulfilling the first part of the prophecy. Odewale is so angry and both engage in a war of charms and incantations which ends up in the old man being struck to death with a hoe. Not only does this old man resist Odewale when the later confronts him, but he spites his tribe and tongue. Some years later, he surprisingly finds an old man one day on his farm, asking his servant to harvest the yams.

On escape, he settles in Ede, where he buys a farm at a place, “where three foot-paths meet”, on which he plants yams.

To avoid such a deed, Odewale runs away from Ijekun urging Alaka (with whom he has grown so intimate) on oath to keep his escape secret until “his parents” are death. The bad mission he must fulfill – to kill his father and marry his mother – is revealed to him. Odewale decides to consult an oracle to know his real identity. One day however, Ogundele’s brother taunts him with the words, “the butterfly thinks himself a bird”, meaning Odewale is not what he thinks he is. Odewale therefore is adopted and grows up in Ijekun palace taking the king and queen for his real parents.

Alaka releases the cowry strings from Odewale’s legs and takes him to his master and queen called Ogundele and Mobike. In the bush, situated at Ipetu, Gbonka rather hands the baby to Alaka, a royal bodyguard from Ijekun who happened to have been hunting there at the time. To avoid these evil events in the land, and with the consent of the parents, the priest of Ogun ties the boy’s legs with a string of cowries and hands him to Gbonka, a royal bodyguard to take to the evil bush and abandon for death as a sacrifice to the gods. Baba Fakunle, a purblind great seer who is called in for the divination pronounces: “This boy, he will kill his father and then marry his mother”. As tradition demands, they take him to the shrine of Ogun for blessings and for the divination of his future.

A first baby, male, is born to king Adetusa and Queen Ojuola of Kutuje.

Ola rotimi's the gods are not to blame