richardmurray

OshunBala or Why the bees sing like Muxinho
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A fraction of the glint from Oshun
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Roy Batty's last clarity 
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A fraction of the glint from Oshun or Roy Batty's last clarity video
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Question: do you know the poem, Ra's last woe? 

If not, what do you think it be?

NOTES

Tannhauser was a Bavarian minnesinger or minstrel, as he is unconfirmedly said to be from the dutchy of Bavaria in the Holy Roman Empire in Europe. His style of poetry was the leiche form which is composed of octosyllabic couplets that form a narrative lyrical poem that one sings to. No stanza is structured the same. Tannhauser purportedly liked to use irony (speaking one way while meaning another) or hyperbole (throing above which means exaggeration) . In European artistic myth Tannhauser is usually connected to the myth of the artist falling in love with Venus in Venusburg, after a year he laments his obsession and calls on the Christian pope to be forgiven, the Christian pope says no unless his staff will bloom.  Tanhauser leaves but the staff blooms but it is too late for Tannhauser is back in Venusburg.

I used the High John legend of my ancestors and turned Tannhauser into Muxinho, which means Tree House. Oshun is the name of a god of love. OshunBala is her land. Massah in the High John mythology becomes Massah Ownah. High John becomes Koko Henda.  The Christian pope is replaced by Asemgu , a kanza or king. Sobrin just means a cousin. The following is the story in prose. 

1. Muxinho; the storyteller playing the first banjo who enters any farm or plantation owned by Massah Ownah or any other in Ownah's clan to give guidance to kanza Asemgu's lands through uplifting tales to his enslaved kin; the sobrin of Koko Henda the conqueror, the unslaveable who lives freely about all Ownah's lands, he who infatuates Massah Ownah; the one who found OshunBalain his travels by pure coincidence.

2. In OshunBala, playing the first banjo, Muxinho worship Oshun, the love goddess, aunt of Kisisesa's daughter, Zurikasa, for a year.

3. The cris of his enslaved kin pull Muxinho out of Oshumbala. He go to kanza Asemgu's lands to ask the kanza to be forgiven for hot spreading spirituals. The kanza say it is impossible unless his epaulettes bloom. They do not and disheartened Muxinho leave to continue storytelling but promising to never let the cries of his kin sway him when he reached OshunBala again. 

4. Four days after Muxinho left, Asemgu's epaulettes bloom and the kanza send out messengers into Ownahs lands to tell Muxinho he is forgiven, but they never found Muxinho or OshunBala.