Thirty-Four
Lost Way to Gudugudu
“She is not going to Katu at all,” Ipotu said regrettably. “She is heading to Gudugudu, land of the living dead. Isu did not send her chariot to ferry Liza, so she lost her way to Katu.”
This explanation was reasonable to Tile as to why Ipotu had cried with such melancholy and intensity.
“Where is this place… this Gudugudu?” Tile asked, curious.
It seemed Ipotu was not in the mood for any such lecture, but he decided to give Tile one anyway, if only for the benefit of what was to come. From his explanation, Tile understood that there was a myth of the Mugulubu, which stemmed in their belief of lost souls punished by the goddess Isu. Although the Mugulubu had no sense of heaven and hell, this myth explained the concept of heaven and hell as best, as fa
