Meaning of Mọrèmi

Mọrèmi

Pronunciation

The child is attractive to me.

ọmọ-re-mí

ọmọ - child
rè - desire
mi - me

Common in:
IFE
OTHERS

Mọ́remí Àjàsorò
Princess of the Yorùbá
was a figure of high significance in the history of the Yorùbá peoples of West Africa. She was a member-by-marriage of the royal family of Emperor Odùduwà
the tribe's fabled founding father. The Oloori Mọ́remí lived in the 12th century
hailed from Offa
married to the then king of Ilé-Ifẹ̀
a kingdom that is said to have been at war with an adjoining tribe who were known to them as the Forest people (Igbo). Scores of Ife citizens were being enslaved by these people
and because of this they were generally regarded with disdain by the Yoruba city-states. Moremi was a very brave and beautiful woman who
in order to deal with the problem facing her people
offered anything she had to give in sacrifice to the Spirit of the river Esimirin so that she could discover the strength of her nation's enemies. She is said to have been taken as a slave by the Igbo and
due to her beauty
married their ruler as his anointed queen. After familiarising herself with the secrets of her new husband's army
she escaped to Ile-Ife and revealed this to the Yorùbá who were able to subsequently defeat them in battle.