Ravenna Sóley’s “Birth of a Priestess”

Ravenna Sóley’s “Birth of a Priestess”

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She is born when she feels herself pregnant.

Her body generates spirit milk. She feels it fill her instantly.

Her body awaits the arrival of divine descendants, who will not come until she sings an incantation of peace.

They await her action.

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