Of Tides & Water

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Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic by Harmonia Rosales

From the acclaimed fine artist Harmonia Rosales, a sweeping retelling of African myth illustrated throughout with Rosales’s spectacular paintings.

In Chronicles of Ori, her debut book, Harmonia Rosales retells the African myths she has long treasured, crafting an enthralling epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. She writes of the powerful, temperamental deities called the Orishas; of the founding of Yorubaland by the shrewd leader Oduduwa; of the young heroine Eve, born in a time of violence and despair, who would help her people regain their past splendor; and of shimmering serpents and monstrous shadows who stalk the lands of mortals. At the center of these linked tales is the bond, sometimes fraying, between the Orishas and the humans who worship them. It was the Orishas who made humans, and who gave them their most precious resource: their Oris, or destinies. Vividly brought to life by Rosales’s artwork, Chronicles of Ori will enlighten and delight readers for years to come.

I know many of you all know me as Thymeroots or Mother Thyme, well it is still me -- do not worry! I am simply moving my main home with Tumblr and Substack being my other locations to find me. All to say that I'm finally taking this blogging situation serious and how I want to portray myself to you all has also changed. I was not unhappy -- but I wasn't exactly happy with my roots that I had built on Thymeroots. So, it is time for a change, I'll be making Thymeroots my side blog that I'll still post on! so don't worry I'm not saying goodbye to it forever. I just want a fresh start, I'm sure we can all agree about that. I'll be gutting about 90% of this account in the meantime! so it'll be ready at least by this late afternoon since Tumblr took away the ability to switch primary blogs.