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Mystical Yoruba scene of the Orishas shaping land and sea beneath a glowing sky – Yoruba folktales

The Orishas and the Creation of the World

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Once upon a time, when the earth was still soft and the sky was near, there was nothing but water stretching endlessly in all directions. The heavens floated above like a great calabash turned upside down, and the Orishas, the divine beings, lived close to Olodumare, the Supreme Creator. The earth below waited to be shaped, yet it had no

Ijapa the Tortoise Goes to Sky Feast

In the days when animals spoke with human voices and walked upright like people, a terrible famine descended upon the animal kingdom like a dark cloud that refused to pass. The earth had grown hard and cracked under the relentless sun, and the once-abundant forests had withered to mere shadows
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