Yara-Ma-Yha … WHAT?
Others were around before the gods left. We’ve seen them. Met them, even …
It was a summers’ day in the outback and the heat was starting to get to me. I stopped beneath a fig tree to rest my legs, but the cool sensation of the shade quickly sent me to sleep.
I woke a few hours later and opened my eyes to find two wide eyes staring back. A creature with a large red face, a massive grin, and short frog-like limbs sat crouched in front of me.
I later learnt that this was a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who.
A creature of Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Yara-Ma-Yha-Who is a small red-skinned man with octopus suckers on its hands and feet.
It kind of looks like Patrick Star from Spongbob Squarepants.
If, that is, Patrick’s head was the same size as the rest of it’s body.
Regardless, these red vamps are hard to miss. That’s why Mr Yara-Ma-Yha-Who has a thing for hanging out in fig trees, because, let’s be honest, no one ever checks the canopy of a tree before resting beneath it?
Well, it’s time you started, because in the GoneGod World, there just might be a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who lurking in its branches waiting for people to pass below.
Once you’re under him, he’ll drop down from above and grab you with his leech-like fingers.
There’s no fighting it.
The suckers are as tight on your skin as muscles are to bone. Then the sucking starts, and you watch in horror - helpless - as he sucks every last drop of blood from your body. You want it to end there, but it doesn’t. Passed out and as dry as a dried fig, the Yara-Ma-Yha-Who then swallows you whole, and wanders to a nearby body of water to quench his thirst. Sucking blood is thirsty business. This is followed by a long nap, then after he’s woken he regurgitates up your body, and you’re good as new.
Well, almost as good as new.
You’re a little shorter than you were before. Your skin is just a little redder than before. This happens every time you’re caught by a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who; you become a little shorter, and a little redder - until you too become a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who.
There are ways of avoiding this foul creature. Playing dead, for one - he only likes the taste of fresh blood. He’s not too keen on adults either, and tends to attack children, because children are oh so tasty.
The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who is just one of the creatures wandering the GoneGod World …
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It was a summers’ day in the outback and the heat was starting to get to me. I stopped beneath a fig tree to rest my legs, but the cool sensation of the shade quickly sent me to sleep.
I woke a few hours later and opened my eyes to find two wide eyes staring back. A creature with a large red face, a massive grin, and short frog-like limbs sat crouched in front of me.
I later learnt that this was a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who.
A creature of Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Yara-Ma-Yha-Who is a small red-skinned man with octopus suckers on its hands and feet.
It kind of looks like Patrick Star from Spongbob Squarepants.
If, that is, Patrick’s head was the same size as the rest of it’s body.
Regardless, these red vamps are hard to miss. That’s why Mr Yara-Ma-Yha-Who has a thing for hanging out in fig trees, because, let’s be honest, no one ever checks the canopy of a tree before resting beneath it?
Well, it’s time you started, because in the GoneGod World, there just might be a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who lurking in its branches waiting for people to pass below.
Once you’re under him, he’ll drop down from above and grab you with his leech-like fingers.
There’s no fighting it.
The suckers are as tight on your skin as muscles are to bone. Then the sucking starts, and you watch in horror - helpless - as he sucks every last drop of blood from your body. You want it to end there, but it doesn’t. Passed out and as dry as a dried fig, the Yara-Ma-Yha-Who then swallows you whole, and wanders to a nearby body of water to quench his thirst. Sucking blood is thirsty business. This is followed by a long nap, then after he’s woken he regurgitates up your body, and you’re good as new.
Well, almost as good as new.
You’re a little shorter than you were before. Your skin is just a little redder than before. This happens every time you’re caught by a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who; you become a little shorter, and a little redder - until you too become a Yara-Ma-Yha-Who.
There are ways of avoiding this foul creature. Playing dead, for one - he only likes the taste of fresh blood. He’s not too keen on adults either, and tends to attack children, because children are oh so tasty.
The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who is just one of the creatures wandering the GoneGod World …
Interested in learning more about the GoneGod World? Check out our flagship series HERE (readerlinks.com/l/568825)
OR join our Facebook Group: The House of the GoneGod Damned! HERE (https://www.facebook.com/groups/49571...) .
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