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The cosmic myth of the Oromo

Published Sept. 25, 2024, 11:39 p.m. by Terfassa W. Barooddee

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Like all known ancient cultures, the Oromo people have their own myths relating to creation.
The Babylonians, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Hebrews, and many others had their own transcendental feelings about the cosmos in which they lived. All ascribed the genesis of the world to a supernatural cause.

In the beginning was chaos and abyss, the Greek myth ran. Out of the abyss emerged three primordial elements: the earth, a cave-like space under the earth, and Eros; from these came the sky. The earth and the sky mated, and their union produced the gods, the Titans. Prometheus, son of Zeus, created men from clay in the image of the gods; another son of Zeus created a woman of great beauty, Pandora.

In the Hebrew tradition, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God.’Yahweh created the first man in his own image from dust and breathed into his nostril the breath of life,

and the first woman from Adam’s ribs.

For the Oromo fathers of distant past, merely perceiving the external world did not satisfy their curiosity about the essence of it. They thus constructed a ‘Concept’ of God in order to be able to categorize and order the multitude of things they encountered. In the beginning was the Concept,
and the Concept was with Man, and the Concept was God.


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