Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick

Author:Mike Resnick [Resnick, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-55725-4
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning Shima came to me to complain that Shuni had rejected the suitor that had been arranged for her.

Two days later Wambu complained to me that Kibo, Koinnage’s youngest wife, had decorated her hut with colorful ribbons, and was beginning to let her hair grow.

And the morning after that, Kimi, who had only one son, announced that she wanted no more children.

“I thought it had ended,” I said with a sigh as I watched Sangora, Kimi’s distressed husband, walk back down the path to the village.

“That is because you have made a mistake, Koriba.”

“Why do you say that?”

“Because you believed the wrong story,” answered Ndemi with the confidence of youth.

“Oh?”

He nodded. “You believed the story about the Ugly Buffalo.”

“And which story should I have believed?”

“The story of the mundumugu and the serpent.”

“Why do you think one story is more worthy of belief than the other?” I asked him.

“Does not the story of the mundumugu and the serpent tell us that we cannot be rid of that which Ngai created simply because we find it repugnant or unsettling?”

“That is true,” I said.

Ndemi smiled and held up three fingers. “Shuni, Kibo, Kimi,” he said, counting them off. “Three serpents have returned already. There are ninety-seven yet to come.”

And suddenly I had the awful premonition that he was right.

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