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Rod

the first one, root of all kin

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Rod is the primordial god of birth, lineage, and the seed of all things, from whom the world and its gods unspooled; to dream of him is to feel the long chain of the ones who made you, stretching back past memory into warm and living dark.

Fragments

The women set out a little bread and cheese for him at the birth of a child, for he is the one who ties the newborn to the whole long line of the dead.

Before the sea, before the first god opened an eye, there was the egg, and inside it Rod, dreaming the shape of everything that would ever be born.

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