Folklore
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Inside the Old Dutch Church my body stays.As a man, I was a soldier in war.But on the battlefield my head decays,And yet, I still wander the world once more.
At midnight, my old curse awakens me,
"Akonadi, the people’s activist."
Akonadi is an oracular goddess of justice and a guardian deity for
women. Inspired by a Ghananian goddess.
He follows the winds on waters and waves,
Oft dragging fishers to their murky graves.
He’s an old, frog-faced man with green and black scales,
On a cold night,
a night like this,
where the moon’s light seems that of the sun,
the wind blows as if whispering a message to weary travellers,
When the wind blows
And the sky fogs
Up my picture in the mirror
When the river roars
And the birds soar
Above the woods we roamed
When the cliffs spike
And the rocks fall
According to legend, Lilith was Adam’s first wife. She had demanded to be treated as his equal and was not given her request - so she left him. God sent three angels after her to bring her back by force, but she did not go with them.
Drummers
Drummers
Dressed up,
Drumming, drinking, dancing
They are getting our spirits high
Drummers!
Dear Adam,
Do you remember the garden?
Does the wind take you there still?
In waves and hurricanes of memory and emotion, does that land there return?
