CENTRAL AFRICAN MYYHOLOGY 

Mankind has been on this planet for over a million years but we don’t know much about it, their history, and their culture. Books tell us about human history going back to about 7000 years. What happened to mankind before that?

Fixation of egoism & intellectual superiority prevails among modern people so as to discard any idea worth exploring the whole history of mankind as pre- historic people just being considered as savages without any refined sensibilities. They could not be more wrong.

We are dominated by our so called logic brain which is a useful tool for living in our mass society but useless in exploring inner psyche and latent sensibilities of our spiritual nature. Real Mind’s horizons are beyond our comprehension and our brain just filters only utilitarian dimensions.

Take the case of Central African pygmies whose history can be traced to 80.000 years. They had acute sense of natural forces around us, both visible and invisible and expressed these into their dance, music and parables. Like other cultures they personified natural forces as characters ruling their lives,

MOKELE--- THE BEAST.

Guarding his place a troop of soldiers

Of red faces, darker hair, with silvery birch

Among berries, nuts, barks and the fruits

Together they will muster enough strength

To throttle men, snakes and the crocodiles

In lands trespassing onto the fields of grass

Sleeps Mokele among seven spirited guards.

His bed a couch of lotus flowers

Four pillars decorating the ivory tusks

An inhabitant of the Sita Tonka

Inodorous rally a master of concealment

He feeds on the yellow fruits

Of longa trees decked with metallic leaves

Or on tangled grown green honey melons.

Along lakesiders of dark deep waters of Dyka

His kingdom ruled over by a spiteful wisdom

Guarding the forests of rain amid onslaught

From ghouls, ghosts or unholy dark spirits

Corrupted dead hunters of the concealed sights

Smouldering unconsumed lovers of the past lives.

Durlabh Singh© 2015