Obatala
sculptor of bodies, king in white
earthObatala shapes human forms from clay and wears unbroken white; to dream of him is to be reminded that you were made with care, and that gentleness — even toward your own flaws — is the beginning of wisdom.
Fragments
He molds each head in the quiet before birth; the day he drank palm-wine and shaped the crooked and the halt, he swore off it forever and took them as his own.
Wrapped in white without a single stain, he asks of those who come to him only clean hands and an unhurried heart.
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