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The Yoruba Mythology and Creation

A brief story told by Kunle Oyewole and a majority of the Yoruba tribe worldwide

In the beginning Olodumare(God) created the Heaven , Earth and all the Neighboring planets around the universe

He then created the great and powerful divinities known as irunmole, the irunmole are forces subjected to his authority , these forces who are messengers also have special task bestowed upon them by olodumare(God)

They all had a hand in creation of the universe and lifeforms, a few of those who were told to create by olodumare became deities over their creation , An example is the great deity of herbs known as osanyin and the deity of rainbow known as Oshumare

Olodumare ordered 401 divinities to motherearth , supervised by the personality of Obatala . They arrived earth and dominated the first Ile ife ,

by the instruction of Olodumare out of the soil obatala created the first man , out of the 6th rib of man he created woman, the region at which the creation was done is/was known as ogba edena, meaning , ogba ti eti da eniyan(edeniyan) , the garden where man was first created

Man - ADAMO/ADAMU , meaning Eni ti akoko da la mo /Eda adamo (first man)

Woman- Efa , meaning sixth (6th rib)

Obatala created a few others too, From generations to generations they populated motherearth , the first humans lived amongst the deities, and the deities are/were used as instruments to communicate to Olodumare

It is believed that no man is worthy of communicating to Olodumare directly,

Hence; the deities are/were offered sacrifices to help communicate to Olodumare , each sacrifice carries its own instruction and purpose, if a man wants wealth, he offers a sacrifice to Olodumare through the deity of wealth known as AJE

The Ooni of ife explains further

Now you know the story of Yoruba creation

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