HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF IGBETI{phase 1}
The history of Igbeti according to historical record could be traced to these active interlocking phases.
The town Igbeti according to the historical record by Igbeti traditions supported by Johnson in his book title History of Yoruba stated that the town Igbeti was founded by Alaafin Sango Ajala Iji around 8th century. Sango was the title Alaafin of Oyo. When Oyo mesi refused to put Sango on throne after the death of oranmiyan their father he grew annoyed and left Oyo with his team. On his way to Ile-Ife when he got to the side of a big hill he met a tall and huge woman who told Sango that she is the goddess of the hill and her name is Iya Tomo-opo Eniyan which later changed to Iyamopo she advised Sango to stay with her and soonest the Oyo Mesi would send for Sango and his team were on the hill top for about seven year before he was recalled to be Alafin of Oyo by deposing his brother Dada Ajala from the throne.
According to N.A Fadipe2 Sango ruled Oyo people for about fifteen years with iron hands while he was at Oyo as Alaafin Sango often sent his followers to come and make sacrifices to the goddess of Iyamopo and other with that assisted his aspirations. Eventually, Sango and his war lords had disagreed on the committed suicide by hanging on Ayan tree.
Sango subjects were not happy to this embarrassment. They invented means to call thunder and lighting from heaven to destroy Sango’s enemies. At last they all accepted Sango as god and his wife Oya too. Orisa Sango soon became the major royal family traditional religion with Ifa oracle.
While Sango was on Iyamopo hill he had a palace there and Iyamopo too. The two palace are there as tourist attraction till today (Appendix v) secondary, when Sango and his team were on the hill, his enemies called name and they made jest of him that he was living on the hills surrounded by forest (Igbe ni oti). This appellation soon becomes the name Igbeti.
When Sango died his followers flooded the hill side of this area. They were mostly Iji people worshiping the goddesses of the hill that assisted them egantion or their leader Sango to greatness. Other people from Oyo follow the chain. They were mostly hunter warriors. They settle in huts, tents, caves and under big tree. They fed mostly on fruit (Emi, Igba, Ori, Babonta and Ehiri etc).The population of the people grew up but with independent settlements. During this era, a prince called Okose Ifa and his brother Oladekan from the royal family at Igbon came and settles with one of the settlements called paaga. The leader of the settlement was an Iji dynasty called Akinyele Ayisa Iji. He was the Asoke of Iyamopo hill. He is a descendent of Sango olufiran Ajala Ijii.
Because prince okose lfa and Olalekan were of royal blood, they quickly mixed up with all the settlements few of which were written under appendix III. These settlements were independent of each other but they respected Okoseifa and Oladekan of their wisdom, uprightness and renounced Babalawo. Okoseifa was first appointed (onigbeti) Baale of the new settlement ,
To be Continued......................!!!

Oriki Igbeti:
Mo s̩oyè tán kí n tó sooru
Mo s̩e’ri wò wò pàjà e̩sè̩ òkè
O̩yè̩ ìí pará ìgbé̩tì
E̩ni a bí só̩yé̩ lo̩yé̩ ń pa
Ìjí mi lèje, è̩yò̩ mi lè̩fà
Mákùn mi è̩rìndínlógún
Onílé o̩yé̩ ò kówó gbogbo fé̩lé̩mi
E̩lé̩mi ń kawó olóbì ń sò̩, Olóbì má sò̩ mó̩
Ibi owó ti wá lowó ń lo̩
Ijí òlẹ́lẹ́
Ijì o̩yé̩ dùn wo̩n a ròkun
Ijí o̩yé̩ dùn wo̩n a rò̩sà
Ijí o̩yè̩ dùn wo̩n a ròpó ilé
Òkè mé̩rìndínlógún ló lalé Igbé̩tì já
Mé̩ta à dúró bo̩
Mé̩ta à bè̩rè̩ bo̩
Mé̩ta à kúnlè̩ bo̩
Òkan làá bo̩ tá ò gbo̩dò̩ gódó
Òkan làá bo̩ tá ò gbo̩dò̩ rodò
Ò̩kan ń sunkún òtútù
Ò̩kan yòókù ló diwin
A ̀kúnlè̩bo̩ nílé̩ wa, nílé o̩ló̩yé̩ moyin
Ọmọ ẹkùn kinni
Ọmọ ẹkùn kejì
Ọmọ ẹkùn kẹẹ̀ta
Ọmọ ẹkùn kẹẹ̀rin. …
Ọmọ ogún ẹkùn ó lé ‘kan soso.
Àlògbó ọmọ ẹkùn mọ́kànlélógún
O̩̩ló̩yé̩, o̩mo̩ e̩kùn kan tí ń torí je̩ran
O̩mo̩ bá-n-mé̩kùn kí n bá o méwúré̩
Ta ni ò mò pójú ewúré̩ banilé̩rù ju t’e̩kùn lo̩?
Ekùúkù ni baba wa fi ń pe̩kùn níbà
E̩ni ó lójo níí fo̩rún pa ti è̩