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Yoruba

Aganjú

the volcano and the wild places

fire

Aganjú is the fire beneath the mountain, the desert and the untamed wilderness; to dream of him is to feel the molten strength that carries you across barren stretches nothing gentler could cross.

Fragments

Under every mountain his fire waits, patient for an age and then, in one night, remaking the whole shape of the land.

He bore Shango's power across a river on his own back and was scalded to the bone for it; his strength is the kind proven only by what it survives.

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