Creation of the World African Folklore
Creation
of the world is an interesting African folklore story about how the world was created
according to the Yorubas of West Africa.
Creation of the world African Folktale
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| Creation of the World African Folklore |
This is the story of how the
world was created according to the Yorubas of West Africa.
The entire world was filled
with water when God decided to create the world. God sent his messenger Obatala
to perform the task of creating the world. Obatala brought along his helper, a
man named Oduduwa as well as a calabash full of earth and a chicken. Then they
began their descent to earth from a rope.
Along the way, they stopped
over at a feast where Obatala got drunk from drinking too much palm wine.
Oduduwa, finding his master drunk, picked up the calabash and the chicken and
continued on the journey.
When Oduduwa reached the earth,
he sprinkled earth from the calabash over the water and he dropped the chicken
on the earth. The chicken then ran around spreading the earth in every
direction he moved until there was land. Oduduwa had now created earth from
what used to be water.
Later when Obatala got out of
his drunken haze, he discovered that Oduduwa had already performed his task and
he was very upset. God however gave him another task to perform – to create the
people that would populate the earth.
And that was how the world was
created in a place now called Ile-Ife.
