Ginen — Guinea, standing for Africa generally — is both the ancestral homeland and the location of the dead, and it is under the water. The songs address it, the dead go there, and the ceremony that recovers a spirit is called wete mò nan dlo, taking the dead out of the water. The geography is not accidental: a religion assembled by people transported across the Atlantic in ships, and by their descendants, located the place they came from beneath the sea that took them from it. Anba dlo, under the water, is a standing phrase. Practitioners describe going to Ginen at death as going home. The doubling of homeland and afterlife into one submarine location is one of the most economical statements any religion has made about its own historical origins, and it is sung at every service.