five-toed chicken. Both the chicken and the shell are used in the same way as Obatala’s story. Eventually Oduduwa became king of Ife, which is what the place is named after he landed there from his decent from heaven (Belcher 2005). After some times, Oduduwa passes away and he leaves his possessions to his children, six boys, the youngest one being named Oranmiyan. Of Oduduwa’s possessions only earth and iron are left, so Oranmiyan takes those. Unfortunately for his older brothers because Oranmiyan had earth whenever they needed to do anything dealing with earth they had to ask permission from Oranmiyan. Eventually they decided to attack their brother, but because Oranmiyan had iron, he was able to defeat each of them with iron tools
