“Olokun is truly of the Milky Way Galaxy! Olokun says Black Lives Matter! Water is Life! Mni Wiconi!” (Native American Lakota for Water is Life). The author includes a four page Epilogue of various facts of selected planets, moons, and stars which are identified as favorite places for Olokun to swim and relax. Toward the end of the story, Olokun is given the ability to fly, takes off into space and “…swims oceans throughout the galaxy…” Here the author inserts a radioactive dagger from Fukushima and Hopi prophecies into the mix. The impact of this narrative is a disorienting mix of faith and reason, the extraordinary and the familiar. Through her language play and prose poem style, the author journeys from pre-history (both real and imagined) – mermaids swim with marine life – to civilization (both real and imagined) including this combination: “…fourteen centuries after Jesus, and thirty centuries after Giza stopped fueling crafts from distant galaxies.” Olokun is an attempt to make serious science accessible at the same time referencing a variety of multi-cultural religious beliefs and politically framed contemporary themes. Olokun of the Galaxy by Esther Iverem is an introduction to the daring imagination of this author.
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