Anthony

“We have told you about some of them [gods] -- Yshwa, for example. Ala, the controller of minor gods, our mother. BUt there are others, and anyone who knows anything knows this, knows about the godly stowaways that came along with the corrupters stole our people, what the swollen hulls carried over the bellied seas, the masks, the skin on the inside of the drum, the words under the words, the water in the water. the stories that survived, the new names they took the temper of old gods sweeping through new land, the music taken that is the same as the music left behind. And, of course, the humans who survived, those selected among them, the ones in white, the ones shaking shells and mineral deposits, the ones ridden, the ones chosen, the ones who follow, work, and serve because calls pass through blood no matter how many oceans you drop death into.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater