Akyeaa: Chapter 7
Akyeaa: Chapter 7
by safohen'One thing's for certain, I'm no immortal.'
Ekuaba had realised ages ago that even though she was impervious to the blade or the bullet, one day she would revert to her wooden doll form. With no prospect of an afterlife, not in the ancestral plains or on the earth as a spirit doomed to wander across it for eternity. So she had sought out the secret to eternal life. For a while, she had killed sankofa birds, eventually realising that they only added ten years to her life. She had established a cult of men and women who had thought that she would share immortality with them.
When she had heard that a great priest had gone to the heavens to find a cure for death, she had tracked him down. She eventually found his lifeless body. So she had decided to dig even deeper into the past. And one day she had found an answer. Legend told of a great trickster who had gathered all the knowledge in the world and beyond. She had tracked him down as well, determined to obtain the knowledge by force.
But by the time she had found him, the vessel into which he had kept the knowledge had shattered, each fragment scattered by the four winds. So a desperate search had began for each and every piece of it. Followers died and new ones joined in her search, for each and every piece. She had been successful so far. A few years ago, she had recruited Ankomah and Aseidua, parents of Akyeaa. They had pledged their allegiance to her. So when she sought to test this by requesting that they abandon their baby in the forest, they did not hesitate.
They had informed her that Abeiku, founder of Ankonamkrom had destroyed the last fragment, carved the markings on a large piece of and built the village on top of it. He had tried to become immortal himself but without the other fragments, he had been unable to do so. The flames died down and the ancient markings shone in the moonlight. She drew out a scroll from the folds of her cloth, asked for silence from her cheering followers and copied the markings next to five hundred others.
'You should get some rest', she instructed them. 'It will take me all night to decipher this. Tomorrow death will have no hold over us'
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