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AfroMythos: Tellings — 78 episodes

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1

The unread script

2

Seven nights, seven night-walkers

3

Iron and the river roads

4

The pyramids of Kush

5

The kandakes

6

Kings of two lands

7

Kerma

8

The great library

9

Reading the sky

10

The first doctors

11

The two crowns

12

The weighing of the heart

13

The scribe’s sums

14

The village of the tomb makers

15

How Ananse went up on the rafters

16

Ananse goes looking for a fool

17

Ayiyi and the leopard's honey cloth

18

One grain of corn

19

Ayiyi and the millstone that ground by itself

20

How Ananse got his bald head

21

The chariot at first light

22

The boat that carried the mountain

23

Refusal and return

24

The routes and the forts

25

The Emperor and the Rastaman

26

The priest who called down a nation

27

The road from Notsie

28

Spider, god or storyteller?

29

Wisdom you can wear

30

The dead are not gone

31

What the beads say

32

Èṣù is not Satan

33

The keepers of the word

34

When the ancestors walk

35

Vodún, not voodoo

36

Bring it back alive

37

When the balance of power broke

38

The stool no one sits on

39

The day hunger was mocked

40

A way through the wall

41

When the sky moved away

42

The hunter at the water

43

The river did not keep him

44

The queen mother who refused

45

Agya Ahor and the life he gave

46

The medicine he never brought home

47

When cattle came down from the sky

48

How African creation myths think about origin

49

Ditaolane inside the swallowing monster

50

Èṣù: The bargain for sixteen palm nuts

51

From the bed of reeds

52

Heitsi-Eibib and the stone pit

53

The man who kept spending his miracles

54

Isis: The greatest magician

55

Isis: The name the sun kept hidden

56

A kingdom is more than one name

57

The armlet from the country of the dead

58

Kwegya, where the sea begins

59

The woman who went looking for God

60

Lwanda Magere: The warrior and his shadow

61

Mawu-Lisa and the last child’s road

62

The message that arrived too late

63

The people who came out of the sea

64

Mwindo: The child who had to learn restraint

65

A home beneath the great fig tree

66

Ògún: The homecoming that broke the town

67

Olókun: When the sea crossed the shore

68

When the waters were withheld

69

Osiris and the return of renewal

70

Ra's daily journey through the cosmos

71

The serpent beneath the world

72

The night they poured out the dawn

73

Ṣàngó: The thunder would not obey

74

How the Sky-god’s stories became Spider-stories

75

The trickster's gift: Intelligence over strength

76

How wisdom spread through the world

77

Yemọja and the broken promise

78

Yennenga: The stallion would not be tethered