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African Creation Stories

The Creation. Comes from Uganda in east central Africa.Features Kintu, the legendary ancestor of the kings of Uganda.Accounts for the fruits, vegetables, and animals found in the Uganda of its time. Explains why the chiefs of Uganda, though they are descended from the gods, are nonetheless not im

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African Creation Stories

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    1. Chapter 8 African Creation Stories

    2. The Creation Comes from Uganda in east central Africa. Features Kintu, the legendary ancestor of the kings of Uganda. Accounts for the fruits, vegetables, and animals found in the Uganda of its time. Explains why the chiefs of Uganda, though they are descended from the gods, are nonetheless not immortal. The story is about a man who must perform a series of tasks for a father so that he may marry his daughter a standard fairy-tale motif.

    3. Kintu Wins Mugulus Daughter Mugulus sons steal Kintus cow: Kintu finds alternate nourishment in the bark of a tree. Mugulus people prepare an enormous meal for Kintu that he must eat all at once: he disposes of it by a clever stratagem. Kintu must make a fire of stones with a soft copper axe: he talks to the axe, and it serves his purpose. Kintu must identify his cow in Mugulus herd: he gets help from a hornet.

    4. Act Two: Kintu and Warumbe Kintu is to go back to earth from Mugulus realm. He should leave quickly to avoid taking Warumbe (disease or death) with him. Kintu and his family delay too long, and Warumbe returns to go with them. Kintu gets help from Kaikuzi, who is unable to prevail over Warumbe.

    5. Insights from the Story of Kintu Kintu is a historical figure, an ancestor of the kings of Uganda who came from the north, but the actual details of his life are not known. The story legitimizes the rule of the kings of Uganda. The story provides an aetiological insight into the appearance of death among humans.

    6. The Origin of Death Comes from the Bura people of Nigeria in West Africa. Theme of this story is the message that failed. It is the most common African myth about the origin of death, with many variants all over Africa. Many parts of West Africa have a tradition of a trickster figure like the lizard in The Origin of Death.

    7. The Origin of Death, 2 A worm is dispatched by the sky god to tell the people how to banish death. Agadzagadza the lizard moves more quickly than the worm and thus gives the people the wrong information. The result is that the people perform the wrong ritual, and death remains among them.

    8. Insights from The Origin of Death The role of the lizard as trickster is paralleled in a great variety of African and African-American tales, to be studied in Chapter 21. The story provides an aetiological insight into the appearance of death among humans.

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