The African mythologies

The existence, attributed to ignorance and prejudice, has built with itself through time, starting from nothing the creation of the fables about the origin of the universe, giving result to our perception of the present. When and how was the world born? We can assure that this is the biggest question that unites the whole humanity and determines the awakening of the scientific conscience and lays the fearful and neophyte nature of humanity. The imagination of man has been what has led to its evolution. From our origins we wanted to go further, to know the why, to discover the unexplored, in other words to know the creator.

The Origin

In the beginning of time, humanity imagined itself dominated by a superior force, which punished and rewarded its agency, inhabitant of a world it did not consider its own, it was a small puppet in the hands of an imaginary god. And for this we have put all our efforts, we wanted to put a face to our ancestors, we have unearthed their remains and we observe them with concern.

When did we start to think about that?

The theory proposed by the West derives from the book "The Origin of Species" C. Darwin. He proposes that the evolution to "homo sapiens" happened somewhere in the African continent 70,000 years ago. The scientific explanation that supports this fact is that in Africa it has never been seriously cooled and the living beings of this region of Gondwana were not affected by ice ages.

According to Dr. Andrea Manica, a researcher specializing in population genetics at the Cambridge University: "The origin of anatomically modern human beings has been the subject of many heated debates. farther from Africa modern humans have migrated, the more genetic diversity has been lost in a population. " Reaffirming that information that Darwin had proposed in the past, in conclusion, in Africa is a greater number of genetic variations than any other part of the world, the further away the loss of genetic diversity intensifies.

We will find that to explain the conception of the world in Africa has the same diverse possibilities of myths as genetic variations.

The Myths

A myth is an allegory, a metaphor that brings a symbolism of life and creation. The myth conceals values and orientations for life in society and the understanding of the relationship with the sacred. Placing in a timeline from the vestiges of the oldest civilizations that arose in the African geography among them the Egyptian, the Yoruba, the Bantu among them the Zulu and the Swahili and the monotheistic perception of Islam.

All are born of the afrodescendant bed that has grown exponentially through the centuries in spite of so much negation and oppression on the part of the western culture; but the globalization that emerged from this same culture has given it a boost, so we will be talking about these mythologies in future publications.