Creation

The Mandé creation myth; a summery.

Creator god, Mangala makes an egg. The egg explodes. Mangala tries again, with two sets of twins, one male and one female. One of the male twins, Pemba, escapes and grabs part of the placenta and that became the earth, but it’s completely baron. Pemba tries to return to the egg, but the egg became the sun. Pemba steals some seeds from Mangala and tries to make the earth less baron. It doesn’t work. Pemba’s twin brother, Faro, sacrifices himself and is cut into sixty pieces and scattered over the earth. Faro is then resurrected and put in human form and sent in an ark to earth with eight other people. The people do a rain dance and a great flood comes and cleans the earth.

The End