
Episode 4: The Sacrifice: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Four
Old Gods of Appalachia
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O, Your Go Arment Spotless. Are They White as Snow?
A revelation 12, lay aside the garments that are stained with sin and be washed in the blooood of the lan. A woman who was secretly a mountain, clothed with the sun and legions of men inside her, and upon her head a crown of black lungs. And she, being with child, cried, travailing in birth and pain to be delivered. So they bound her backbone, kept straight by centuries of settlement and privilege,. That sing silent hymns through a sandstone jaw, bone, two decades from crumbling to dust under the weight of a bad bite. They rattle through the desicated woodsheds of their bodies, singing softly that this is not our home
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