THREE FRIENDS

TITTLE: Three Friends

AUTHOR: Yoruba

TYPE OF WORK/GENRE: Poem

Context of the work:  The Yoruba are one of the largest African ethnic groups south of the Sahara Desert. They are, in fact, not a single group, but rather a collection of diverse people bound together by a common language, history, and culture. Within Nigeria, the Yoruba dominate the western part of the country. Yoruba mythology holds that all Yoruba people descended from a hero called Odua or Oduduwa. Today there are over fifty individuals who claim kingship as descendants of Odua.

Summary: this poem is all about friends, one of his friend ask me to sleep on his map, other say sleep on his ground and ask him to sleep on his breast but he choose to sleep on his friend breast and he saw the king of the river and king of the sun because they believe in there tradition that god before went down to create the earth but  the one who create the earth was slept also because when he go down to the earth they have party so some of them offer the wine and he fall asleep. Then Chameleon got all materials and went to the edge of the heaven then he throw the chain and climb down.  

our analysis of the story/drama/poem/essay: According to a Yoruba creation myth, the deities (gods) originally lived in the sky with only water below them. Olorun, the Sky God, gave to Orishala, the God of Whiteness, a chain, a bit of earth in a snail shell, and a five-toed chicken. He told Orishala to go down and create the earth. Orishala approached the gate of heaven. He saw some deities having a party and he stopped to greet them. They offered him palm wine and he drank too much and fell asleep. Odua, his younger brother, saw Orishala sleeping. He took the materials and went to the edge of heaven, accompanied by Chameleon. He let down the chain and they climbed down it. Odua threw the piece of earth on the water and placed the five-toed chicken upon it. The chicken began to scratch the earth, spreading it in all directions. After Chameleon had tested the firmness of the earth, Odua stepped down. A sacred grove is there today.


Give your personal opinion about the piece:  for me as they said we have own opinion about our god own beliefs but all are correct we only praise only one god but there’s a lot of stories about our creator but when we try to think about this all story at the end is the same happen, so for me as long as we have fait to our god there nothing wrong with it. J