Serer creation myth

I am  keeping this one  limited to only  Creation  of the Universe and  Earth  as this mythology  is  very  Vast 

and  would require a few separate blogs in order to sort  out into smaller categorized parts

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The Serer creation myth is the traditional creation mythology ^[1]of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. Many Serers who adhere to the tenets of Serer religion believe these narratives to be prehistorical and sacred, which contains profound truths. Some aspects of Serer religious and Ndut classical teachings are included in the narratives contained herein but are not limited to them.
The Serer people have many gods, goddesses^[2] and Pangool (the Serer saints and ancestral spirits represented by snakes),^[3] but one supreme deity and creator called Roog (var : Rog). Roog is synonymous to the deity Koox (or Kooh), the name the Cangin refer to the supreme being.^[4]Serer creation myth developed from Serer oral traditions, Serer religion, legends, cosmogonies^[5][6] and Serer symbols^[7], which only the initiated can decipher.^[7][8] The specifics of the myth are also found in two main Serer sources : A nax and A leep. The former is a short narrative for a short myth or proverbial expression, whilst the later is for a more developed myth.^[9] Broadly, they are equivalent to verbs and logos respectively, especially when communicating fundamental religious education such as the supreme being and the creation of the Universe. In addition to being fixed-Serer sources, they set the structure of the myth.^[9]The creation myth of the Serer people is intricately linked to the first trees created on Planet Earth by Roog. Earth's formation began with a swamp. The Earth was not formed until long after the creation of the first three worlds : the waters of the underworld; the air which included the higher world (i.e. the sun, the moon and the stars) and earth. Roog is the creator and fashioner of the Universe and everything in it. The creation is based on a mythical cosmic egg and the principles of chaos.^[6][10]

 A leep details the scene of the primordial time in the following terms :

"A leep à joon maaga

a roxondox o maaga,

a gad'wa roog,

a saay'a lang ke."^[30]

Which translates to :

The Words leap into space,

He carried the sea on his head,

the firmament on his shoulders,

the earth in his hands.^[30]

The mythical words established the three worlds (water, air and earth) based on the prologue of the Serer genesis provided by A nax.^[27] In A leep, it gives the order in which they were created and elaborated on it. A leep posits that, with the words of Roog, the three worlds (the Universe) began to take shape. The first to be created was the deep sea waters (waters of the underworld); the second was air including the high heavens (Kuul na, in Serer) such as the sun, themoon and the stars; and third was earth. However, the Earth was not one of the first primordial worlds to be formed. It will take a long time before the waters and the Earth were separated.^[31]

First human couple

Before humans existed, there were three stages in the creation of the Universe and each of these steps followed a consistent order.^[57] The first phase was the first three elements : air, earth and water. The myhical words of Roog (orKooh) found in A nax, led to the formation of the heavens, earth and the sea. The second phase of the creation was the primordial trees (i.e. Somb, Nqaul, Nquƭ, etc.,). The third phase was the creation of the animal world : the jackal and"Mbocor" (which means : "The Mother"^[57]) - mother of all animals except the jackal.^[57] In each of these phases, and before the creation of the first human couple, the supreme deity did not directly create each species, but only theprimogenitors who then went on to populate the world with all the species of plant and animal life.^[57] The same was the case at the creation of the first humans.^[57] By thought, the supreme deity planned for the creation of human beings (a female and a male).^[57] By words, Roog went through a gestation phase which signalled the gestation of man and woman, paired within the divine placenta.^[57] Through its maternal nature, Roog projected a female and male human being as in childbirth.^[57] The first human was a female, named YAAB.^[76] The second human was a male named YOP (var : YOB).^[76]

YAAB and YOP were the first humans that walked the Earth according to the narrative. The ancient and sacred village of Yaabo-Yabo (var : Yaboyabo or YABO-YABO, in present-day Senegal) also derives its name from this couple.^[

Southern Mali-Mandé creation myth(West Africa)

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The Mandé creation myth is the traditional creation myth of the Mandé peoples of southern Mali. The story begins when Mangala, the creator god, tries making a balaza seed but it failed. Then he made two eleusine seeds of different kinds, which the people of Keita call "the egg of the world in two twin parts which were to procreate".^[1] Then Mangala made three more pairs of seeds, and each pair became the four elements, the four directions, as corners in the framework of the world's creation. This he folded into a hibiscus seed. The twin pairs of seeds, which are seen as having opposite sex, are referred to as the egg or placenta of the world. This egg held an additional two pairs of twins, one male and one female, who were the archetype of people.

Among them was Pemba who wished to dominate and so he left the egg early, ripping a piece of his placenta. Pemba fell through space and his torn placenta became the earth. Because he left the egg prematurely the earth formed from this piece was arid and barren and of no use to Pemba. So Pemba tried to return to the egg, to rejoin his twin and his place in the rest of the placenta. But it was not to be found-Mangala had changed the remaining placenta into the sun. So Pemba stole male seeds from Mangala's clavicle, and took them to the barren earth and planted them there. Only one of them could germinate in the dry earth, a male eleusine seed which grew in the blood of the placenta. But because Pemba had stolen the seed and it germinated in Pemba's own placenta, the earth became impure and the eleusine seed turned red.

Faro, the other male twin, who had assumed the form of twin fish, was sacrificed to atone for Pemba and purify the earth. Faro was cut into sixty pieces which fell to the earth where they became trees. Mangala restored Faro to life giving him now the form of a human, and sent him down to earth in an ark made from his placenta. With him came four pairs of male and four pairs of female twins who became the original ancestors of mankind, all made from Faro's placenta. The ark also held all the animals and plants, which also carried the male and female life force. Sourakata followed with the first sacred drum made of the sacrificed Faro's skull which he played to bring rain. When the rain did not come, the ancestral smith came to earth and with his hammer, he struck a rock and then the rain came.

Faro created all the world that mankind has come to know from the descendants of Mangala's original egg seeds. He caused the land to flood to wash away the impure seed of his brother, Pemba. From this flood, only the good were saved, sheltered by Faro's ark.^[2][3]