West+African+Gods+and+Mortals

Relationships between gods and mortals in West Africa. By: Chris Cramer It does not matter what ethnic group you come from the gods have played a major part in your birth. In every culture the gods are the ones who created mortals in one way or another. Well in order to have relationships with mortals you need mortals first. The way it goes in African mythology is there was nothing but darkness just like in every type of mythology. Then there was the god Bumba now he had stomach pains for the longest time and finally he vomited up a few things. The first was the sun then the moon, stars, animals and finally two humans.thats how humans came to be in the African point of view. There were many different types of gods in Africa. They each had their own are of power and each are that they ruled over.

What this picture shows below is a of some of the gods of Africa and the role they played. The gods of Africa were really into music and dance. They were ones with the earth and nature. their was many different types of tribes in the whole subject of arfican mythology. With different tribes came different creation myths. All the different tribes are connected because of the gods of their tribes but there is not one god that connects them all together like chaos in Greek mythology. In Greek mythology chaos was the one who started it all and from chaos came night and day then monsters that gave birth to the gods. There is nothing like that on the side of African mythology. There are not many gods or goddess of love or marriage either. There are not many stories of the gods having a relationship with the mortals on earth.

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