ODUDUWA the reputed founding father and ancestor of the race is really a mythical personage. The extraction of the term is from Odu (ti O) da Iwa. Whatever is unusually large as a large pot or container is termed Odu: the term then implies the great container the author author of existence. According to Ife mythology Oduduwa was the son of Olodumare, i.e. the father or lord of Odu; ma re implies cannot go beyond i.e. the Almighty. Oduduwa was sent by Olodumare from heaven to create the earth. Olokun i.e. the goddess of the ocean was the wife of Oduduwa, Oramiyan and Isedale their children, and Ogun a grand-child. Such is the desire of most nations to find a mythical origin for themselves through their kings and ancestors.The emigration of the ancestors of the Yoruba s from the east to Ile_Ife where Oduduwa died in peace and as defied, being worshipped to this day by the Ifes, and up to the time of the British Protectorate, human sacrifices were offered to him at regular intervals. The soil of Ile-Ife is said to be sacred to him. He was the grandfather is renowned Kings and Princes who ruled and made history is the Yoruba country. The number of years embraced by this period is unknown but it includes the time during which the Yoruba kingdom was in prosperity and the kings despotic. The capital of the kingdom then was Ile Ife. The Basorun of this region was Olorunfun-mi.