- [first lines]
- Saro: [narrating] When someone dies in Yorubaland, they are not buried. Rather, the sacred forest is where the corpse is taken to. When someone dies, it is said that they go to rest. They rest... That is how the dead was buried in Yorubaland before the turn of time. Times changed, and now we dig the ground to bury the dead.
- Saro: The Ifa oracle says that the Akala bird has power of resurrection. When people die in an untimely way, with its divine ability, the mystical Akala bird resurrects them. But if the person's time is due, the mystical bird allows them passage to the great beyond.