Creation myth makes Edo people and the King contemporaneous with the poling of the world.
The aboriginal Edo person was said to have come from space —Iso at the time chalk covered the surface of the earth, the earth was white, known as CRETACEOUS period in history about seventy five to one hundred and thirty six (136) million years ago.
The origin of Edo people is easy to understand through traditional tales, folklores and legends which say that Almighty God sent his son, whose choice was a snail shell-Ughughon, met the ground in chalky situation and from the shell, the land began to build up (Otoe keghi muma) hence the type of soil- Ulakpa, which is quite rare in the universe.
According to the folktale, four of them were sent at once and each of the four persons had a choice object. The Edo person had a choice soucer-Ughughon, an object that contained red soil with accompaniment of Taucan-owonwon and Cameleon-Erokhi.
The first among the sons was Ymir who sprang up from a world of mist vapour and a world of light. This god ymir married a giant and they had three children-Odin, Vili and ve.
Odin became the Chief among the gods and was said to inhabit magnificent palace according to Norse culture. He was the father of Thur, the thunder god and of Thursday.
The second among the sons, Almighty God sent to the world was ‘Baba’, occupied the ancient Babylon where one of the famous king Hammurabi established his rule.
The third among the sons was Shan of the Far East occupied by China.
The fourth among the sons- Evbavba was from space-Iso but Neptune gave him a spouse-woman called Ohonmwi, hence, Osa-God and Olokun- Neptune are worshipped according to creation myth.
Edo, Idu has been the aboriginal name. Edion-Edo-Ancesstors of Edo, Erinmwi-Idu-Spirit of Idu are contemporaneity. The sib greetings are La Iso, La Ren Edo, La Idu, to identify the lineage.
The vast land mountains, hills, valleys that spread to no bound called Igodomigodo is almost in the shape of the shell-Ughughon, still in legend and wisely surveyed to occupy arable plain of Africa.
It took nature about 3,000 to 12,000 years to build up enough soil to form the land.
The people fed on Iso-White substance like snow ice, and the white chalk-Orhue, until they became wise enough to graze for their meals.
The most available meal was white chalk-Orhue and Kaolin-Eko. The customary name Eko is the same name for Belly-stomach, when Eko is eaten, the stomach would, devoid of hunger.
The chalk and the kaolin became the production industries of the original people, even till this day Orhue and Eko are still household modeling.
The chalk-Orhue is used in painting, white washing and in nearly every rite or ritual.
The kaolin-Eko is eaten especially by pregnant women to protect the child in the womb, to have easy movement and at the time of birth, the child would easily slip down without much pushing.
The Iso seized to be eaten during the reign of Ogiso Emose, it was forbidden then to keep Iso overnight.
One day, a pregnant woman kept the Iso overnight and mouse ate out of it, so the Iso seized to drop and melted into the sky.
The Edo people like early history of most nations live account of their legends, beliefs and folklores for their cultural heritage.
The men and women were fairly tall, well built, deep-chested, well- muscled and very black. They have been the focus of large powerful and structural complex political entity.
The language, the city, the kingdom, and the people themselves are called Edo. “At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words, so the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which those men had built and mix up their language so that they will not understand one another. (Genesis Eleven).
The Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth. The place became known as the Tower of Babel”.
The Edo Language and those of all neighbours belong to the kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family and there is no reason to suppose that the divergence of these languages from a parent stock has not taken place. It seems reasonable that any immigrant was linguistically absorbed, and that such innovation as is brought was re-interpreted in the climate of the aboriginal culture.
During the great deluge, the sons of God being mystic were saved from the flood at the mountain heights, where from thence they came back about the seventh millennium BC.
First the Edo and Ewe, then the Igbo-Abia, and followed by the earliest Yoruba in the second millennium B.C.
Edo oral history is full of tales of war and conquest. The art is in part reflection of the times.
Ogiso ruled the black race. Ogiso Odoligie was the 10th Ogiso that ruled Igodomigodo-(Africa). His father was Ogiso Orriagba, the first Ogiso to go on pilgrimage-Uhe to Abyssinia in Ethiopia to adore the Ark of Covenant.
King Xerxes who had his royal throne in Susa Persia, (Ref book of Esther) ruled over 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia in about the fifth Century B.C, Some of the Greek cities revolted against the huge Persian Empire.
King Xerxes (Zeghezeghe) the Persian King mobilized troops to invade the Greece state. Ogiso Odoligie on the request of king of Persia, recruited some Edo people with clubs-Ukpokpo to overwhelmed the Greece states.
The Greece king was Odin. He lived in magnificent Palace. The Norse people said it was War of the gods while in Edo folklore; it was War against the spirit world. In Norse culture Odin was defeated by demons in gigantic war against the gods.
The hospitality of Odin warranted the troops to offer the clubs-Ukpokpo, for Odin to make fire for his meal. (Ukpokpo ne a ya gbe odin, O re a vio ne Odin ya le evbare re). Eventually, such deeds are used in Edo vocabularies.
Odoligie was war like and peace loving king. He is still remembered in folk song among others- ‘Odoligie gha de Aye’.
The effective political power of the ruler waxed and waned. The ideology of Divine Kingship remains central to Benin political life.
The kings, the Oba are worshipped by all Edo subjects who believe that they came from heavenly space, the sky-Iso and speak of them always with great reverence on bended knees inherited from the aborigin of Edo in culture
Oba ghato okpee! Isee!!.