God of Mercy by Okezie Nwoka

Author:Okezie Nwoka [Nwoka, Okezie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Astra Publishing House

6.

ỌFỌDILE WAS IN THE NORTHERN FOREST, where the hunters go to find their prey, where the village begins its end and Ụmụka speaks its boundary. He was checking his traps when he saw the long—thick chord—emerging from his trap—to his foot, nearly denying that he had caught a python, feeling his stomach turn and fall. He moved closer to examine his trap and found that this one did not have any bitter kola seeds to repel the sacred snake; and he nearly howled—recounting that he was to report this to Igbokwe so that the dịbịa could remove his abomination from the village.

“I, will … bury … it,” he said.

And as he spoke, he did. He raised his machete—and cut the long python into many pieces; then began opening the earth with his machete, and with his hands, to bury the mutilated snake.

“Cheeeeeeeiii! Come and see it! Come and see it!”

Ọfọdile did not move. He heard the scream coming from the mouth of the forest—from the path next to the Stone of Anị. He quickly buried the python, and left the forest and his secret, to rush to where the screams were originating from. It was Ngọzi, and she was surrounded by almost all the women of Ichulu—all of them moving toward the market square, singing, over and again:

Ngọzi you are so beautiful, mgbo, mgbo

Ngọzi you are so beautiful, mgbo, mgbo

Whoever chi has appointed, let them rule

You are so beautiful, mgbo, mgbo

Whoever chi has appointed, let them rule

You are so beautiful, mgbo, mgbo

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