Obatala

Obatala is the Yoruba creator figure discussed in 147. 非洲神话：腋毛创世, 土狼下蛋及哪吒的另一版本. In the episode’s version, the high god sends Obatala down with soil, a hen, and a palm tree; Obatala spreads the soil on water, the hen scratches out the land’s shape, and he later shapes humans from clay.

The source uses Obatala alongside [[MawuLisa|Mawu-Lisa]] to show that West African creation stories do not share one standard mechanism. Creation can happen through soil, animals, trees, water, clay, divine craft, or serpent movement, and the differences matter more than forcing a single African cosmogony.

Connections

• African Mythology - broader mythology frame.
• African Oral Literature - oral-story and variant-transmission context.
• [[MawuLisa|Mawu-Lisa]] - adjacent West African creator figure in the source.
• Yoruba Twin Cosmology - separate Yoruba mythic frame elsewhere in the wiki.
• Mythic Source Layering - concept for handling variants and cross-cultural comparisons.