URENMA (Journey To The River World) - Season 1 - Episode 12

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URENMA (Journey To The River World) - Season 1 - Episode 12

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“Obi m before I met you, I thought that being a princess of the gods was a great thing, but right now I no longer wish to be a princess of the gods. I only want to be your wife and love you till my life fades”. “Then ask the gods for more time” “As a princess of the gods, I am forbidden to marry any mortal man. I cannot marry you Obinze”. Obinze felt his heart explode with pain when he heard Urenma tell him she would not marry him. “Now you know the reason I have been a sad woman for weeks. I am permitted by the gods to love a man and yet not to marry him. Oh! How I wish I was born a mere woman”.

Obinze was so shocked that he went numb. Right before his eyes his world came crashing. All he could manage to ask Urenma was, “How much time do you have before the gods summon you?” “A year and six months”. “Then we will make it the best period of time you spent amongst mortals. When I go hunt you shall go with me and when I go to farm we shall sit together under moonlight and tell ourselves how much we love each other.
The gods may deny us marriage but they can’t deny us love”. “But Obi m, what if people begin to wonder why we refuse to get married, how shall we answer them?” “Don’t worry about that, when you are caught in the arms of love, you won’t worry about what people are saying”.

And so Urenma and Obinze began to live and love each other like they had planned. Okeke and Ngbankwo tired all they could to persuade their daugjter and Obinze to marry, but they gave no heed to them. The villagers and those in lands afar off wondered and gussed as to why their long awiated wedding would not take place. One night when the love in Urenma’s heart had grown to such a height as she could no longer resist giving Obinze her body, she went to the river world to strike a deal with the elder gods.

Before the gods she made her plea, “It is said amongst us that the gods can do no wrong; but having lived as a mortal woman in over seventeen years, I have seen far too many wrongs committed by the gods. None of you here has lived a mortal life and so cannot tell what it means to fall in love. You sent me to dwell amongst mortal by my request and gave me permission to love and yet would not allow me to marry the man I love. This in the sight of a young mortal woman I have been all these years is cruelty. Now I know why mortals blaspheme gods and we in our egos destroy them. Oh elder gods! I demand to know, what shall it cost me to marry the man whom I love?” “If you marry him in rebellion, he shall be destroyed the moment he uncovers your nakedness, and you shall be stripped of your powers and shall roam the forest until you die”, declared the head of the elder gods. “Is there no way I can marry this man and not incur the wrath or curse of the gods?”

There was silence in the room for what seemed eternity. Eventually one elder spoke up. “There is a possibility you can marry the man you love, but the conditions are grave”. “Tell me the conditions and I will fulfill them”. “If the gods grant you permission to marry the man whom you love, your powers shall not be taken from you as a princess of the gods, but you shall in no condition use them as a princess of the gods in the world you now dwell as a mortal being.
In the case you fail to abide by this one condition, you shall be cursed to roam the forest and to devour the flesh of men until death meets you or until your head is removed and thrown into Nwangele River. As for your position as a princess, it is eternal, it shall never be taken from you”, announced the second elder god.