the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
The Mande blacksmiths worked near termite mounds because the earth there had concentrated you — find where the aliveness is dense, and work there.
held by nyamame, one of 204 citizens — The world's own ambient aliveness as a received gift, the animating force that flows through powerful craft and speech and accumulates in those who carry something real, channeled rather than self-made.
nyama + me (Proto-Mande/Sumerian) — the world's ambient vital force, channeled not owned