River Spirit

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• The River Spirit's Gift Aug 16, 2025

  

  The moon hung like a silver calabash in the dark sky as the village elder’s voice flowed like the ancient river itself:

  “Nsuo ye aboa—water is life,” the elder began, speaking the old words with reverence. “Tonight I tell you of Asubosom—the River Spirit—and her sacred gift to one whose heart was pure as mountain spring water.”

  In the time when the forest spirits walked openly among our people, when every stream sang with its own voice and every tree held conversations with the wind, there lived a young man named Kofi in a village that nestled beside the great river like a child against its mother’s breast.