{"sf1_id":992372,"sf2_id":"ZmMdrake","title":"Cave God","author":"Huskyteer","words":99,"posted_at":"2016-04-29T07:07:00.000Z","tags":["Bear","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/992372-cave-god","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ZmMdrake","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/1f/3a/1f3ae1bb-ce3d-4e58-8ef9-264bdacc7341","description":"#8 of Poetry\n\nThis poem appears in the second [adjective][species] poetry collection, curated by FA: poetigress - do take time to read the rest!\nWhen I was little, I was fascinated by a picture in one of my books on prehistoric life that represented early humans worshipping a bear skull god. Later, Neil Gaiman's description of an ancient ritual in American Gods had a deep effect on me. Hence, this.","content":"As you made fire,  \nso you made me.  \nFrom the skull of a bear you killed  \nnot because she was attacking  \nor had attacked before  \nbut because she might attack  \nFrom the skin of a sleeping lion  \nyou tracked and speared and thanked  \nFrom these things, you made a god.  \nFrom nothing, you made the idea of god.  \nYou named me as you name your children.  \nIn me you pour your prayers  \nyour fears  \nas you store meat in your clay pots.  \nI am your bear-lion-god.  \nI am dead things. Empty space. And power.  \nWhat do we make next?  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/845667-wolf-break.json"}}