Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The orishas

Cuba's gods in the Thorn Room: seven shrines, one Sun of Reawakening, every choice a thorn — Ogun ascended alone and wanting no rivals, Legba's coin, shy Shango, Oshun's charm, Asojano's plague, Inle from the Nothing, Yemaya the river mother — and a flaming anvil over the heads of the men who chose wrong. A corrupted town cured; a god flagged; a goddess re-ascended 'welcomed into the family by all'.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 14 — The gauntlet run
• Chapter 15 — The Thorn Room
• Chapter 16 — Ogun
• Chapter 28 — Rude-Dolph

Progression

A straw man in a saferoom (ch. 10, ch. 11); seven shrines and every choice a thorn (ch. 15); Ogun in person (ch. 16); Yemaya from her fountain (ch. 17).