mother-souls

Updated: July 4, 2025

Before the altars the swan-white mother-souls glisten and flutter. The estufas are without human occupants, their entrances alone are watched by old men or women outside to prevent the work of invocation and gratitude performed inside by symbolic advocates from being desecrated by rude or thoughtless intruders.

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier - The Delight Makers