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Post by mellomusings on Nov 13, 2018 15:01:48 GMT -5
Is there any connection between the two known Soninke Tales of Gassire's Lute and Bida The Black Snake? What lead me to muse about this proposed connection is because the story of Bida The Black Snake speaks of a hydra like creature that inhabited a well that required a yearly sacrifice to guarantee the prosperity of the empire whom was later slain by the hero of the story to save his fiance from said sacrifice and interestingly enough during the Tale Of Gassire's Lute when Gassire went out into the field he found a partridge sitting beneath a bush singing of his triumph over the serpent. Could the partridge and serpent of Gassire's Lute be in connection with the tale of Bida The Black Snake or vice versa?
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Post by anansi on Nov 13, 2018 19:30:36 GMT -5
You know, coming from the same ethnic group I can't dismiss a variation on the same theme, but I need to go back and reread both before coming to any definite conclusion.
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Nov 13, 2018 22:37:39 GMT -5
Who came first? Angabo, Aeb, Arwe. Perseus, Andromeda, Sea Monster. St George, no woman, Dragon.
And then Amadou Sefedoke, Sya Toukara, Miniyamba.
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