African mythologies are less well-known and less studied than American, Indian and Oceanian mythologies. They have never been the object of intensive analysis as it was and still is the case of ancient Greek mythology. But, although they do not offer the rich variety of motives of the southern American mythologies (cf. Levi-Strauss 1964-197 1) nor the classica1 Greece and hellenistic multiplicity of well - caracterized figures (cf. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides but also Kerenyi 1969) and even though they do not lend mythological material to the Occident as the Indian mythologies (cf. Jesi 1979), African mythologies nevertheless deserve a particular attention. This article analyses an ethnogonic mith of the Lotuho of Sudan with particular attention to the intertwinement of mythological motives and social and political structure of this society.
"Noah and Ham in East African Mythology"
PALMISANO, Antonio Luigi
1991-01-01
Abstract
African mythologies are less well-known and less studied than American, Indian and Oceanian mythologies. They have never been the object of intensive analysis as it was and still is the case of ancient Greek mythology. But, although they do not offer the rich variety of motives of the southern American mythologies (cf. Levi-Strauss 1964-197 1) nor the classica1 Greece and hellenistic multiplicity of well - caracterized figures (cf. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides but also Kerenyi 1969) and even though they do not lend mythological material to the Occident as the Indian mythologies (cf. Jesi 1979), African mythologies nevertheless deserve a particular attention. This article analyses an ethnogonic mith of the Lotuho of Sudan with particular attention to the intertwinement of mythological motives and social and political structure of this society.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
