![]() ![]() Meanwhile, across the ocean, Captain Timothy Meaher, almost fifty years old, hosts a dinner aboard the Roger B. He hasn't yet completed his initiation when his nineteenth birthday comes but Kossola is already thinking of taking a wife. He and the other initiates and men spend nine days outside Bante. He later learns that an attack was thwarted.Īfterwards, Kossola learns that he will begin the oro initiation ceremony. ![]() One night he hears rustling and sounds the alert for the people to hide in the woods. As a soldier, Kossola is to guard one of the town's eight gates. He is marked as a soldier, to track, hunt and protect, by having his cheek marked with a knife, and his front teeth chipped so that he has a circle shaped opening. Kossola has been training for four years to be a soldier, preparing to be initiated into oro, the secret society of men and highest levels of the Yoruba religion. ![]() ![]() Bante is enclosed on all sides by tall walls. It is a day when people come from all over to buy goats, cows, yams fufu, and much more. Kossola, a young Yoruba man living in the village of Bante, is enjoying market day. Eighteen-year-old Kossola, which means "I do not lose my fruits anymore." is the eldest child of his father's second wife Iya. ![]()
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