AFRICAN MYTHS - Mrs. LE

Dr. KIP REDICK
RSTD 337
LE, KIM-CHI
Date: September 27, 2007


AFRICAN MYTHS

According to “Original Visions The Religions of Oral People.” African theology, philosophy, cytology, political science and medicine have all been embedded stories.
Many stories are significant and they can cause people to think about the world such as:” The anthropologist Marcel Griaule discovered the complexity of the Dogon thought-world when he was accepted as an initiate by the blind Dogon elder Ogetemmeli. Ogetemmeli was revered in his neighborhood as a wise man.”(64).
Ogetemmeli describes how the world and the solar systems were created. He told of the “fourteen solar systems were formed from flat circular slabs of earth one on top of the other.” (64). He said that the women brought down the stars for their children. “The stars came from pellets of earth flung out into space by God Amma, the one God, “said Ogotemmeli.”
The Africans were interested in the sun, because the sun is the ancestor of African people. Africans believe people were the first conceived by God. The essences of signs were inscribed in the initial placenta, or “womb” of God. Africans believed in the religious systems of peoples the world over and through out time, attesting to the human fascination with origins.