A Girl calls out. "Mmaa."
"Ee, Adaku nwa Nnenyelụgo, inwelu ajụjụ? You got a question?"
"Ee Mmaa, is this where they make the Father of all peoplekind, Amadiọha?"
"The Father... Ee Adaku, chelu, ịgava aghọta."
"Mmaa..."
"Mmaa anyị."
"Ụmụazị bụtụe nụ na ụnụ gagha ghọta." Mmaa says clearing her throat.
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"Holy Mother of all peoplekind! Me! These things are huge." Anị exclaims.
They had landed Earth again, Achara Anị (Mother Earth's abode) and they were hiding behind the tall grasses near the waters.
They turn to Ọma. "Babes, what's the plan? Uche gị adị kwa ya?" Ikuku asks.
"Yes. I just need Anị to follow me into the waters..."
"Ok big sis, let's go..."
"From our Waters you came, from your waters you now make Life. Nothing came from nothing, we all come from Water. The waters from our Mothers is the water of Life, all that comes from a Woman is the sustainer and preserver of our Life source energy... Nothing more, nothing less." The voice calls out.
"Chineke." Ọma calls out. "Ọgini kwa ka ịchọ?"
"Be careful in that which you birth. For it will be terrible if that which you give Life to takes Life from you, but alas it won't be your fault. The Mother is always right and detail oriented, even if it costs her her Life... Focus on the inner so the outer won't sip in. You have one chance to make it right..." Silence again. Chineke is quiet.
Ọma lets out a sigh and moves into the Waters with Anị following suit.
"Maka gị Anị, I'm so fucking confused I can't even relate."
"Nne, biko hapụkwa Chineke, anyị gava ghọta... Hopefully..."
"Hopefully o." Ọma says as she finally disappears into the waters after Anị.
The rustling which they make as they depart grabs the attention of one of the beings who comes to check but finds nothing. Luckily for Ikuku and Anyanwụ, they realize they can hide by his Legs which they quickly do. They're too tiny in size compared to him so he could barely see them around him.
"Big ugly monsters." Ikuku blurts out. "I wouldn't wanna live in a world surrounded by all these for eternity. Ọma and Anị better do something quick."
In the waters, they've both seemingly gotten to the bottom of the waters but Anị glances and realizes that they still have a long way to go.
"Girl, this place will do biko." Ọma says.
"Ọkwa ya?" Ọma nods. "So what do we actually do?" Anị asks.
"Just like before, let's stay close together and see what we'll birth, together."
They join themselves as one but nothing happens. Closer, nothing. Closer still and still no spark.
"We're fucked. Ike agwula m." Anị says.
"Anị calm down. There has to be another way. Chineke, what's going on?" No response.
"Girl wait o." Anị calls out. "I just realized I've been following you blindly." Ọma frowns. She continues. "What the hell are we actually doing here? Tell me, I wanna understand. I really do."
Ọma sighs and sits down on a rock. She looks annoyed she has to explain herself and as it seems 'unnecessarily'. "It's for the best I guess. Anị, fine Girl, look, remember when Chineke said "The Women say where we're going to go, the Men follow the lead of the Women and take the collective to exactly where the Women say we should go?" Anị nods. "Exactly. So yes, we are the Women, You, Anyanwụ, Ikuku and I, the four pillars of the Universe's stability and existence but there is no Man, so we have to birth the Man, so he can help us get there. He won't lead us, but he will absolutely take us to where we the Women say is the right track."
"Women envision, Men execute. No hierarchy just roundness and cooperation. Women call the shots, Men take us there. Women direct, Men deliver. Am I right Ọma?"
"Anị, this is why I love you. Exactly. You're right."
"Sis I think I get where you're headed." Anị says. "Yes, I'm digging you and I Love that."
"So, can we work on this which I have mentioned?"
She stands up and moves closer to Ọma then stops, "But wait o, Sister."
"Ee?" Ọma answers as frustrated as she can be.
"Sister, who or what are are they going to look like?"
Ọma stops. "Nnaa eh, I gotta sit down." She does. She looks up at Anị and shakes her head.
"Let's make it this way." Anị says. "We'll take the form of this stuff we'll call ikpu (shape), it will have five edges, a head, two arms, two feet."
"Anị, let's be intentional..."
"Ọma bụtụe nụ. Ana m egwu egwu ebe a? I'm not nụ. We both are gonna take this look."
"Ndo nwanne m Nwaanyị." Ọma replies. "Biko, na ekwụ. Continue, please.
"Think about how we want the rest people to be in the long run."
"The rest people?" Ọma asks in surprise.
"Yes Ọmarịcha. C'mon nụ, the ones that we'll birth nụ, and they will look like us."
"Anị I'm not digging what you're saying. Really, ..."
"Ọma, you know what? Just follow my lead alright?" Ọma nods sitting down on the rock.
"I'll sit this one out, right?" She asks.
Anị nods in response. "Babes, you should." Anị stands shutting her eyes. She just stands, hands intertwined in a clench. Ọma watches on meanwhile feeling the oceanic movements around her.
Anị slowly but surely transforms into something different. Ọma in amazement arises from the rock speechless.
"What... The hell...? Ọ gini? Gidọzi?"
"I will be the brain child for the Woman's gender, Nwaanyị. These two are for nursing the child which I'll bear and the people whom you will birth will fall over their heads for the love of these. They'll literally run mad for these." She calls out pointing to her busts.
"Madness, Ara." Ọma then chuckles at what she says and then goes. "Aniiii." They both laugh. "The under nkọ?"
"Ok her?" She points between her laps. "She's the portal of Life, the pathway through which all Life will emerge, the great warmth, we will call the entire structure Mpakọ ndụ, the pride of Life/the pussy." Ọma nods. Ani continues. "This part is the vulva, we will call it Ọtu."
"So the whole Life structure, the vagina is Mpakọ (ndụ) and this part, the Vulva is Ọtu." Ọma asks.
"Yes." Ani verifies. "There's also the Fasciae, Abaghị Uru. G spot, Ikpu usọ. Clitoris, Ọnụ usọ. Labia majora, arụ izizi. Labia minora, arụ ime. Skene's gland, Ọnụ mmanụ, and many more we'll get to eventually."
Ọma nods in response. "And the two balls of flesh above nkọ..." She feels on them and rubs the tips, Ani shuts her eyes and parts her lips in delight. "These two succulent and soft lumps of flesh, what will we call them?"
"Álá, after myself, Àlà because Earth, Ani mọ Àlà holds the source for the sustenance of Life, water, real food, fruits and water and so does the Álá. Álá will hold the source of maintenance and sustenance for a tàatà (baby/toddler) only. Tàatà the starting point of the being that will emerge out of the Mpakọ ndụ. Water, minerals and what not Álá will have. They'll be in a white liquid form and will be essential for existence of the Tàatà growing up, we'll call them Mmịrị ndụ, the Water of Life. Milk."
"Nne, you're doing a marvelous job." Ọma says.
"Girl, they won't be calling me Mother Earth or Mother Africa for nothing. Africa, Anịnne. So yeah."
"Continue. Wait, so the Man whom we're to give Life to right now will come right outta you?" Ọma inquires.
"Yes, but not this one. This one will not come directly from me. I want to give power to Men because they're supposed to be our help mates..."
"Supposed?"
"They're our help mates."
"Exactly." Ọma says. "They come from us, and we don't come from them.
"Gbam! So Sis, the power I want to give them is as such." Ọma copies her physique with immediate effect signalling approval. Ani smiles. "Kịtaà ka anyị bu Mmadụ."
Ọma reaches for a hug. "Ani bịa makụọ m." Ani comes closer, and they hug. "This feels good." Ọma responds.
"Reallll. So, the Man. He should have something that resembles our portal of Life to signal he mutated from us because all Life will start from a phase. Let's call the phase: nnyefe ndụ, a chromosome. Anyị ga akpọkwa ya nnyefe ndụ waa waa for the Nwaanyị, Woman and nnyefe ndụ waa yee for the Nwoke, Man."
"Waa and Yee kwa?" Ọma asks.
"Ee nụ. Edemede nke anyị (Our own Alphabets), Aabiidii, Waayeezii and the rest letters in-between. Well, that's a story for another day." Ani says.
"Ok o. Mana (But) Nne, you mentioned they should have a mutated form of our portal of Life meaning that it won't be a portal but simply our vagina protruding outwards because as you mentioned the WaaWaa chromosome, that's, the WW (XX) chromosome is the starter part for all eggs. So mid-stage after fertilization it can then evolve into a WaaYee chromosome if it's to be a Man, WY (XY), meaning the Y is a W that couldn't complete its full development or remain WW if it's to be a Woman." Ọma says.
"So all Life is supposed to be WW (XX) right but it will be said in the distant future that during evolution, one of the two chromosomes got a defect causing an edge to break off and it then became WY (XY) chromosome?" Ani verifies.
Ọma nods in response. "I think I can work with this your knowledge of the future." Ani says. She asks for a high five. "I like the way you're thinking, Nye m ịse, nye m ịse, nye m ịse!"
Ọma high-fives her.
"Moving on. And, it should have some sort of fertilizer not exactly an egg..." Ani says.
"The eggs in our body, yes there will be eggs and the child will come from the egg, so the egg is the seed of Life, the Ova/Ovum, Àkwá ndu." Ọma says.
"Thank you, Sister, so the Man's fertilizer will be liquid, we'll call it Omịlị named after Amịrị which is Urine, and Ụmịrị which is squirt. All named after Mmịrị/Mmịlị, Water. Omịlị is Sperm, Spermatozoa. The Sperm will fertilize the Egg when needed by the Woman. Either ways, Nwaanyị will bleed starting from a certain age till Mmudebeàkwándụ, Menopause. Why and when will we bleed you may ask?"
"Ani can we just make the Man, I mean we have the blueprint for him now don't we Nne?"
"Calm down nụ, one more thing, we Women, Ụmụ Nwaanyị, we will bleed when the ụlọ àkwá ndu is ready and also because she's ready.
Ọma, the egg, àkwá ndụ will have a home, ụnọ àkwá ndu, the ovary. She will release an egg after the afọ ndụ, the uterus has grown, thickened, and become rich with blood, ọbara and nutrients, edozi. The ụlọ àkwá ndụ will release a mature egg, àkwá ndụ karaaka on the fourteenth day of okirikiri ọbara ndu (the cycle of the blood of Life/menstrual cycle) which is basically all these things I'm explaining to you right now.
Nne, the àkwá ndụ will travel to the afọ ndụ to await Omịlị, the fertilizer, the sperm. To be very honest, there will be many Omili, I mean it's semi liquid so yeah. Our fine Girl will pick just one, sometimes two or any amount she deems pure and safe from the Man which we will make soon." She focuses on Ọma who's staring and nodding. She thinks she's bored of annoyed of her long talk. "Ọma no vex nụ, it's for the best. We want to make sure that Ụmụ mmadụ, Humanity is on the right track as Chineke said is our responsibility."
Ọma crosses her legs and just watches on. "Fine Girl continue, I'm not angry. It's for the best, and they'll be your problem either ways so yeah, take your time, we have nothing to do yet without these people which we're planning for."
"Thanks baby m, afụ m gị n'anya, I love you." Ọma nods with a smile. "Now, if there's no fertilizer, the egg won't continue her journey (pregnancy) and if she won't continue her journey, akpa edo, the corpus luteum which is supposed to support the pregnancy journey will stop producing high levels of Ike mgbo, strength of a Woman/Oestrogen and Ike agbọbia, strength of a Girl teenager/Progesterone."
"Ok?" Ọma nods.
"Nya, because Estrogen and Progesterone dropped all of a sudden, the strengthened uterine lining, nya, elili afọ ndụ sịrị ike will now begin to break down and detach themselves from the wall of the uterus, nya (that is) mgbidi afọ ndu and finally..."
"Chi m, daalu."
"The ọbara, blood and ụmụ mkpuru arụ, tissue from this lining will be pushed out through ọnụ afọ ndụ, the cervix and vagina, Mpakọndụ, creating the menstrual flow, ije ọbara ndụ. The unfertilized egg, àkwá na a chọrọ omịlị, is microscopic, ọpelu ezigbo mpe when it breaks down, meaning it is not visible to the human eye within the menstrual blood, Ọbara ndụ."
"Are you done?" Ọma asks standing up.
"Yes, the bottom line of what I'm saying is that the Man which we will make will be like us. We will give him the power to fertilize our seed of Life, the egg, which is why he will have Amụ, a penis where our Vagina is supposed to be in his body and ihe nwanu, ihe nwanu, ihe nwanu, he's the blueprint for the Masculine gender and..."
"You Ani, will be the blueprint for the Feminine gender, the creative gender, the Life giving gender. Like the Aka nni and Aka ekpe. The brain, ụbụrụ is cross-wired, the right hemisphere is for creativity, spatial awareness, and divergent thinking and it controls the left side of the body. The left hemisphere is for deep critical and analytical thinking and it controls the right side and we can all have a little of both." Ọma says.
"Creativity requires both the logical, analytical side of the brain, the left and the intuitive, artistic side, the right to work together. So this is how we will make Man compared to us and later on ụmụ Mmadụ will study the brain and see the similarities and differences of Nwaanyị na Nwoke by understanding the ụbụrụ." Ani adds.
"Kedụ ụzọ ụnụ nụ?" Ikuku asks, coming in with Anyanwu behind her.
"Sorry for keeping you Girls waiting, Ani and I were discussing the blueprint for the future which we're to birth in right about now. The Man comes from our afọ ndụ and never the other way round. We don't come from the Man, the Man comes from us. As it is today is as it was yesterday and as it will be in the future. We don't come from a Man's anything, we just made Man as it should be, we all come from a Woman's uterus, nothing more, nothing less." Ọma replies.
Ani nods at her in agreement. "Gbam! By the way, Ikuku, what's the situation on Land?"
"Not good, Ani. Those creatures, strange beings that are everywhere are destroying the very last bit of what you, Ani have birthed, and they're coming out more and more in their numbers. And they're pointing to the Moon for some reason..."
"The moon kwa? Who gave them the idea they can leave this plane from anywhere else other than through the waters?"
"I don't know Ọma but it ain't looking good." Ikuku verifies.
"But wait o, they're coming from here nụ, then why can't we see them?" Ọma asks.
"Ọma, you birthed a massive sparse of water, of course they're coming from the other sides. Here's not the only road." Ikuku says. Ọma nods in agreement.
"Ngwa, Ọma, let's hurry up and make this being, we can't spare any more time." Ani says.
Ọma rolls her eyes. "You think? When you've been talking chọ chọ chọ since."
"Make something Ọma, no stress me biko." Ani dismisses her complaint in a playful manner.
"How far, we want to help so that the next generations coming will never do without us. Their Ancestors all came from Water, they can't live without water, air must be compulsory, myself, They should need Anyanwu for sustenance after the Mother, Ani, the light she'll provide must be essential for their effective existence, Ọma for the moon too so as to update their psychic abilities and Ani, Aniiii, Ani Nneuwa for all the food that'll come from her plus she's the one housing the waters and... Holy Mother of all, Ani what did you do to your self?"
"Ikuku bụtụe, there's no time to explain, but it will do you the world of good to copy her for the meantime." Ọma says.
Ikuku is skeptical but Anyanwụ just quickly follows suit.
"Ikuku, just do it for the meantime, I'll explain it to you later." Anyanwụ says.
"Anyanwụ, how do you want to explain to me what they did? You were with me the entire time..."
"See Ikuku, there's no time, just shape-shift and come assist us biko." Ani says joining hands with the rest two.
They hold hands interlocking fingers forming a semi circle and awaits Ikuku to join them.
"Ikuku nụ."
"Ikuku, gidọzi nụ?" Ani asks.
"Ikuku o!"
"Iku..."
"Ok, I've heard." She looks at Ani and copies her. She extends her hands and completes the circle. They shut their eyes and soon sparks of light begin emitting from each of them all. The forces of light join together portraying the two faces of Chineke and it quickly rushes to their middle while some bounce off the bodies of the mountains to various locations.
They hear a cough and open up their eyes to behold the dark-skinned, well-built person lying beneath them exactly like Ani had envisioned and Anyanwụ delivered. He keeps coughing repeatedly and Ani rushes and begins to press on his chest to ease out excess water and comfort him.
"So we've done it. We've birthed the first Man, Nwa Oke, the child of the water boundaries. Nwoke. We have birthed the second Mmadụ, Nwoke from the first Mmadụ, Woman and Mother, Nwaanyị." Anyanwụ says. "I think I like his form though. We go relate later."
Ani is smiling from ear to ear and Ọma is proud of herself. Ikuku is still skeptical. The Man is in Ani's arm resting his head on her busts. She's kneeling beside his lying body confused and without direction... Yet."
"Well, he's here now, what are we going to use him and do?" Anyanwụ asks.
"Well as Chineke rightly said: we call the shots, they take us there. So, we need him to deal with those creatures so we can begin birthing the rest Mmadụ alright?" Ani says.
"So Amadiọha." They all turn to look at Ani. "Why are y'all looking at me, I just gave him a name, Amadi ọha, Father of the people. Anị Nneụwa, myself, will be Mother of the people. I'll also be Ọgwụgwụ meaning 'it will have no end'."
"I am the Father?" Amadiọha asks.
"Yes, you're the Father and the assistant to us, Women, and your partner, Ani." Ọma says.
He turns to look at Ani. "I am your helper?"
They all nod in agreement. "Yes you are. It's your purpose and reason for being born so right now we need you to go out and defeat some creatures that are not meant to be in existence, you need to eliminate them so that our Life on Earth can begin." Ani says.
"Kamalu, je lụọlu anyị ọgụ a!" Ọma says.
"Ọgini kwa bu Kamalu?" Ikuku asks.
"Kamalu is Thunder and Lightening. The short form is Kalu or Kanu."
"Udo di. Wonderful." Ikuku says.
"So we are to chant a praise to him so as to ready him for this fight." Ani says. "We must chant repeatedly." They join hands, awaiting Ikuku again, she shrugs and completes it. Amadiọha just stares at them from his sitted position.
"Kamalu, je lụọlu anyị ọgụ a! Amadiọha ịghanaru anyị agha a! (Kamalu, go and fight this battle for us! Amadiọha do not lose this war for us!)" They begin.
By the fourth one, he rises, fists clenched and ready for action. He swims out as they follow suit still chanting under their breath. Furthermore, he dips his head out of the waters, the first breathe of air. Stopping on his tracks, he shuts his eyes, inhaling again the warm earthly breeze and eventually exhaling. Likewise, he opens his eyes and emerges fully. The Deities follow suit. Watching from a distance on Land, they await his first move...