This might be a weird question but, does anyone know if there's any big indigenous religions or mytholgies in Africa on the level of the Greco-Roman, I realized I know nothing of Africa's myths and monsters. Here's a pic of a qt in return
>>2946359
Best bets are Igbo stuff, maybe Bantu mythology, Swahili things etc. I don't know too much about African mythology myself. I remember easing that Neolithic myths were fairly uniform across the globe though. Africa, Europe and Asia each sort of converge mythological U once you reach a certain point in time
>>2946359
Egyptian mythology
Phoenicians /carthaginian myth are probably close and share the same root with hellenic - Mesopotamian myths
Why are non whites so constantly obsessed with euro culture
>>2946359
There's the Yoruba religion, with strong offshots in the Americas such as Santeria, Macumba and Cadomble
It's fairly similar to greco-roman religion, you have gods with human personalities that rule over some aspect or phenomena
>>2946359
I think that in most of southern and western Africa the beliefs were animist, and that there isn't a unified pantheon because basically everything was inhabited by a spirit or divine figure or was "magic". But there ought to be a mythology, all human groups have stories that they pass down. The lack of unified nations and the insulation of a lot of tribes along with the lack of writing systems in many areas also makes the conception of a mythology as codified and complex as the greco-roman ones rather difficult. A lot of the local beliefs and tales must have been lost when islam and christianity knocked at the door given those religions' tolerance for unbelievers and for other faiths
tl;dr: too many gods and spirits for too many scattered tribes with their own specificities for us to have a decent account
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>>2946359
West African stuff is underrated imo