Hello Steemians and special greetings to all the wonderful Freewriters in the house. It's another 5minutes Freewrite and I invite you all to join this challenge by @mariannewest you can find the Prompt here.
Hope you enjoy your read.
In the land of Umunze in the ancient kingdom of Nsulu lies the sacred Ebube-agu cave with the mysterious cave paintings, believed to be painted by the hands of the gods of the land themselves.
Children visit this cave to play, the maidens of the land also visit the cave to fetch water from the adjoining stream because it is believed that the waters here is blessed by the gods, but on these regular days, there are no paintings seen on the cave wall.
The Ebube-agu cave is just like every other cave until the mysterious paintings appear on the cave wall, and this only happens when the reigning king of the land dies.
Whenever the reigning king dies, the royal staff of office disappears mysteriously from the palace to an unknown location deep inside the Ebube-agu cave.
The chief priest then visits the cave to make sacrifices to appease Ani the great god.
After seven days of ritual cleansing and sacrifices, the chief priest then leads all the surviving male sons of the late king to the cave for the gods to choose the next king, and anyone the gods have chosen they will open his eyes to understand the cave paintings.
The cave-paintings lead the chosen one to the secret chambers of the gods where the royal staff of office had vanished to.
As soon as the chosen one has retrieved the staff the paintings then shows him the escape route lest any of his brothers find him with the staff and harm him.
When the chosen one emerges from the cave with the royal staff in his hands, the royal trumpet is sounded announcing the emergence of a new king and the celebrations to mark kingship begins and the cave paintings mysteriously vanishes again only to reappear when the reigning king is dead.
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Thanks for reading
It was an interesting read and I enjoyed it. Somehow it reminds me of the old Greek only 35000 years ago?
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I would definitely take a look
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Super. Enjoy the writing.🍀
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