Tag: kraken, religion, saints, sea

The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you’re a big boy. The sea’s full of saints and it’s been full of saints for years. Since longer than anything. Saints were there before there were even gods. They were waiting for them, and they’re still there now.Saints eat fish and shellfish. Some of them catch jellyfish and some of them eat rubbish. Some saints eat anything they can find. They hide under rocks; they turn themselves inside out: they spit up spirals. There’s nothing saints don’t do. Make this shape with your hands. Like that. Move your fingers. There, you made a saint. Look out, here come another one! Now they’re fighting! Yours won.There aren’t any big corkscrew saints anymore, but there are still ones like sacks and ones like coils, and ones like robes with flapping sleeves. What’s your favourite saint? I’ll tell you mine. But wait a minute, first, do you know what it is makes them all saints? They’re all a holy family, they’re all cousins. Of each other, and of … you know what else they’re cousins of?That’s right. Of gods.Alright now. Who was it made you? You know what to say.Who made you?