When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe
Emergence Magazine Podcast
The Beginnings of the Yoruba Tradition
In Yoruba traditions, there were once primal seas and raging waters below. Olokun ruled the waters, and Olodomari, supreme above all, ruled the heavens. Abattala's son was inspired to create a people, and the land they would rest on. He prepared a chain of gold, gather palm nuts, with which he might hold the sand to be thrown over the waters,. A sacred egg contained a bird that would come in handy along the way.
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