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Copied from the book, Cosmic Chain by Onyeji Nnaji A frican myth is multifaceted to be understood at just one attempt. No African myth is understood from one direction. It is dully interwoven, just like the didactic of folklore. The involvement of both human and non-human characters makes its understanding very difficult. The same reason makes it relatively unreal to an ignoble fellow. The reason is that, in Africa, nature speaks. And the speech of nature can be demonstrated by anything found in the African society. We have a world where the wind, the stars, the sun, moon, water, trees, birds and even land speaks. The expectation on the analyst of nature language is to understand the medium through which these nature characters communicate. This is the sole reason why certain nature element is retained by a society as her totemic tool. Some of these nature elements relevant in African mythological studies and the views they represent in the different African oral traditions is ...

T ime is one complicating issue to determine in trying to work out the actual human genesis. The world in its nature also contributed, for at the time when human beings were trying to gather themselves from the flood incident it was almost very difficult to conclude whether the whole part of the world was completely destroyed from the focal point of Noah, the man through whom it pleased God to recycle Adam’s linage. From this calculation in days as we found with the record about Noah, and which had prevailed among his ancestors as the method of measuring time, it became apparent that about the time when the entire earth was flooded, the human society (particularly the created man) had adopted the cyclic rating of time by morning, afternoon, evening; days and night as fits into the description by Moses. According to our Bible story teachers, Adam was created on the sixth day, invariably stressing the timely cyclic of day and night. This evokes a salient question about what the con...

Contents 1) The Metaphysics of African Oral Tradition - Universal cognate - Restricted cognate 2) Transcendental empiricism of African myths A) The duality myth - Animated duality - Cohabitation duality B) Celestial cosmography C) Totem 3) Mysteries of life in the Igbo cosmology - Agwu - Rejuvenation - Ike-Ishi 4) Cosmic Chain - Mind Control - Cosmic Control 5) Soul Travel - Mutant soul - Still bound - Purgation 6) Incarnation - Ogbanje: entity & Journey - living within lives - Reincarnation     - Memories of the Afterlife           - Memory by scar           - Memory by reflex 7) Igbo Geometry and the Metaphysis of Number The Mystery of the Number One The Mystery of the Number Two The Mystery of the Number Three The Mystery of the Number Four The Mystery of the Number Five The Mystery of the Number Six ...