Celebrating Africa’s Mythology and Heritage
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Celebrating Africa's Mythology and Heritage
Welcome to Afrodeities, where we unveil Africa's rich history and mythology through captivating narratives that honour its timeless deities and forgotten voices.
The Shadow Sky is but the first step in a much larger exploration of African mythology, history, and culture, its rich and untold legacy of mythology, history, and resilience. Stories of deity queens, creator warrior deities and kings, and ancient prophecies are waiting to unfold.
The vision for Afrodeities is a thrilling and ambitious one, with the overarching strategy being to underpin some rather exciting exploratory fiction by establishing this foundation of uncovering, compiling and retelling African myths and brief histories. Future works will examine the echoes of these historical myths and how they intertwine with Africa’s greatness, struggles and potential for recovery.There is so much to see and learn. Let's get started!
African Mythology Was Never Folklore. It Was Infrastructure.
Afrodeities reclaims the African pantheon through books, visual art, and the Bridgeworks, a 12-component framework proving African civilisations encoded law, science, time, and ethics in mythology. This is corrective history. This is the canon Africa deserves.
Peremptorical History
Before the empire wrote its version of history, there was peremptorical history, the record that came first. Afrodeities recovers what was deliberately erased: African civilisations that engineered knowledge into mythology because mythology was the most reliable transmission technology ever built. Kemet. Great Zimbabwe. Timbuktu. The Songhai. Systems so sophisticated they survived slavery, colonialism, and 400 years of systematic destruction.
This is corrective history. This is reclamation. This is proof.
African Mythology was Technology
Afrodeities reclaims the African pantheon through books, visual art, and the Bridgeworks, a 12-component framework proving African civilisations encoded law, science, time, and ethics in mythology. This is corrective history. This is the canon Africa deserves.
We Are Proving It
African mythology wasn't spiritual folklore. It was the most sophisticated information storage and transmission technology ever engineered.
How it worked:
Ifa divination is a binary mathematical system with 256 base configurations. It's structurally identical to Leibniz's binary code — the foundation of all digital computing — except that Ifa is older by centuries. Read: Ifa Divination - Myth not Magic
Why African Knowledge Survived When Everything Else Was Destroyed
The Griot was a living library carrying 700 years of genealogy, law, and history in oral form with perfect accuracy across generations. This wasn't memorisation. This was information architecture.
The Griot
Red Rice Universe
Red Rice survived the Middle Passage because enslaved Africans hid seeds in their hair and carried the knowledge of its cultivation in their bodies. African agricultural systems were so precisely encoded that they rebuilt themselves in South Carolina, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Read: Red Rice Universe
African Time: Nile Time
African Time was not "lateness." It was a civilisational science synchronising agriculture, governance, ritual, and astronomy across the Nile flood cycles with instrumented precision that Kemet maintained for 3,000 years. Read: African Time
This is why African knowledge survived. It was designed to. Encoded in story, rhythm, seed, symbol, and breath, transmission systems that couldn't be stripped, banned, or burned because they lived in the body and the pattern.
Explore the technology:
In Relationship and Conversation
It failed.
Because African knowledge was encoded in forms that crossed water in the bodies of enslaved people and rebuilt themselves on the other side.
The same geometric patterns appear in Kente cloth in Ghana and Gullah quilts in South Carolina.
The same Ifa configurations operate in Yoruba divination in Nigeria, Santería in Cuba, Candomblé in Brazil, and Vodou in Haiti.
The same circular ring shout that marked Igbo ceremonies appears in South Carolina praise houses 300 years later.
The same call-and-response structure that organised West African oral tradition becomes the blues, becomes jazz, becomes hip-hop.
These are not "similarities." These are continuities. The relationships were never broken. They were encrypted. Distributed across the diaspora. Waiting to be recognised as what they always were: one knowledge system operating on two continents simultaneously.
Afrodeities maps these relationships. Continent to diaspora. Kemet to the present. Myth to code.
Read the continuum:
Memorabilia - Objects as Civilisational Archive
The Black Continuum
Afrodeities reclaims the African pantheon through books, visual art, and the Bridgeworks, a 12-component framework proving African civilisations encoded law, science, time, and ethics in mythology. This is corrective history. This is the canon Africa deserves.
The Thread that Slavery Could Not Sever
Not Folklore - Systems
Time | Fable | Griot | Script | Sigil | Numbers | Soil | Spell | Score | Memorabilia | Technologica | Seed
Each component links to a full corrective pillar page. This is forensic historiography. This is how we prove erasure was systematic and survival was engineered.
→ Explore All 12 Bridgeworks Components
The Bridgeworks
The Bridgeworks is our 12-component analytical framework proving African civilisations encoded knowledge across every domain.
The Framework that Maps Africa's 'Knowing'
The Correctives
Why African Knowledge Survived When Everything Else Was Destroyed
African mythology wasn't spiritual folklore. It was the most sophisticated information storage and transmission technology ever engineered.
How it worked:
Ifa divination is a binary mathematical system with 256 base configurations. It's structurally identical to Leibniz's binary code — the foundation of all digital computing — except Ifa is older by centuries Ifa Divination - Myth not Magic
The Griot was a living library carrying 700 years of genealogy, law, and history in oral form with perfect accuracy across generations. This wasn't memorisation. This was information architecture. Read: Griot - The African Information Technologist
Red Rice Universe examines the proliferation of red rice dishes across the African diaspora—Jollof rice, Thieboudienne, Arroz con Gandules, Charleston Red Rice, Waakye—all variations of the same culinary tradition that has survived and transformed across continents. That's the continuity proof. The relationship is mapped through food. One tradition. Multiple expressions. Continent to diaspora. Same knowledge, different context. Read: Red Rice Universe
African Time was not "lateness." It was a civilisational science synchronising agriculture, governance, ritual, and astronomy across the Nile flood cycles with instrumented precision, a practice Kemet maintained for 3,000 years. Read: African Time
This is why African knowledge survived. It was designed to. Encoded in story, rhythm, seed, symbol, and breath — transmission systems that couldn't be stripped, banned, or burned because they lived in the body and the pattern.
Explore the technology:
African and Black History Correctives
African history has been taught as: slavery, colonialism, aid, and poverty. That four-word summary is deliberate. It erases 200,000 years of civilisational achievement.
What the Empire Erased, We Restore
Sacred Geometry
The geometry that built pyramids and survived slavery.
Visual mythologies covering African mathematics, cosmology, resistance, and the patterns connecting Africa to its diaspora.
Goddesses Collection
The women who held supreme power. From Kemet's queens to the Kandakes of Nubia to the Mambo of Haiti, who organised the Haitian Revolution.
Mythic Connections
The relationships that hold everything together. Love, kinship, sacred bonds across African mythology and diaspora.
Afromantasy
African mythology as lived reality. Worlds where the Canopy breathes, Shadow remembers, and African knowledge systems are the logic of existence.
The African Mythology Canon
30 volumes across West, Central, East, Nile, and Southern Africa. The complete visual compendium.
Afrodeities Visual Universes
Five visual collections. African mythology, history, and technology rendered as art. 17 corrective articles already live.
What the Empire Erased, We Restore
Cultural Gallery
Explore Africa's rich mythology, history, and vibrant cultural narratives.
Explore the visual foundations of African knowledge systems through our Sacred Geometry collection. https://afrodeitiessacredgeometry.myportfolio.com
Afrodeities Press
From Code to Codex to Coding
Afrodeities Press publishes the African mythology canon the world deserves. Starting with Nigerian Mythology and expanding across West, Central, East, Nile, and Southern Africa - 30 volumes mapping the gods, cosmologies, and knowledge systems that built civilisations. Each book is mythology AND corrective. Each one proves African knowledge was infrastructure, not folklore.
The Books:
Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky
The cosmology beneath the Yoruba and Igbo traditions. The shadow world that mirrors and interpenetrates the visible one. The first book in the African Mythology canon.
Meet the Orishas
The Yoruba pantheon as sophisticated theology. Not folklore — architecture. The gods as principles governing reality.
The Girl Who Climbed the Tree
African mythology for children who deserve to know they come from brilliance.
African knowledge was always code — sophisticated systems of law, science, governance, and memory. We're building the Codex to document them. Then returning them to code to be embedded as AI, technology, and living practice.
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"The Bridgeworks" is an original civilisational framework developed by Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi within Afrodeities.
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