A “Song of the Fallen” excerpt
The Sixth Tribe
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But Eden’s daughter is always fair
With seaside eyes and sunshine hair
The wolf who waits at Heaven’s gates
Who guards and tends the Garden there
Keen-eyed readers may remember “the sixth tribe” from this story:
This excerpt is the last stanza in a longer poem about the five nymph tribes and their founders: the Small Mothers. Even the five primary tribes know very little about the sixth tribe, and some even believe it’s nothing except a myth!
In fact, this is the only piece of written nymph literature that references the âdunae, and it’s been the subject of debate amongst many scholars of fae folklore. Some question the authenticity of this excerpt due to the presence of Christian religious imagery, while others take issue with the excerpt’s inclusion of a single “daughter” because previous stanzas reference multiple daughters.
