According to the Holy Bible book Hosea 4:6 ignorance is a burden heavily laden upon many people. In an attempt to account for such vacuum, fables evolved. Myths generally take place in a primordial age, when the world had not yet achieved its current form, and explain how the world gained its current form and how customs, institutions and taboos were established. In a very broad sense, the word fables is shortened form of two words 'false stories' as referring to any story originating within traditions. The term mythology derived from the root word myth can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths.
For many of us growing up on this side of the planet have been made to believe kind courtesy of Hollywood movies that modern science offers explanations to all observed phenomenon. This mentality is what aroused my curiosity when I saw the news headline from Yahoo! News on a monster fables in Canada. As they say curiosity kills the cat hence I wanted to find out what this news about 'Canada's Loch Ness Monster Caught on Tape?' was all about.Sighting at a lake in British Columbia is stirring up talk of sea creatures.
Well, if you are interested and curious like me, watch the video below on "Ogopogo the Canadian version" of sighting of a sea monster in British Columbia.
Now we know that somethings never die irrespective of degree of advancement in science. You need to be here in Portugal to see people especially elderly Catholic adherents stopping by images in town and doing the signs of the 'cross' and praying.
Yesterday I had a chat with a friend and we spoke about the relevance of 'ananse sem' (Ghanaian fables). We were particularly intrigued at its role in promoting socialisation as well as discipline (norms and good behaviour). The children will do anything to be punctual to hear the elderly tell some of the famous fables. The intelligent children always manage to retain and memorise as well as mimic the mannerisms of how to speak in public. It taught young ones the dos and donts without paying a pesewa. We also acknowledged the fact sometimes, the old person cleverly formulate and weave the story to expose a misbehaviour of one of the children sitting right in front without mentioning his or her name. However, woe betide you for you to insinuate that the old lady was fabricating a tale. We all swallow 'her anansesem' but most importantly, the lesson behind it. It is a good tradition we have almost lost to modernism and urbanism. While we might have lost that good tradition, we have clever people who have also managed to repackage those antics in the cloak of beliefs which is flourishing due in large to ignorance of the masses. This level of ignorance has nothing to do social standing including attainment of very high formal education. There are of course many educated illiterates parading in high places in Ghana. They lack the capacity to discern and be able to sift the chaff from the grain.
Beliefs are one of the strongest anchors on which to chain the imagination of the people. And talking of chaining the thinking cup of people, today happens to be another doomsdaysayers special favourite. The specialness and uniqueness of the day's date lends itself to manipulation and superstitious predictions. So a certain man of God has predicted that the world will be destroyed, Friday, November 11, 2011 (11-11-11 @11:11). It would be recalled that today is listed among the four special dates of note in 2011 in an earlier article posted on this site at the beginning of 2011 -Four Special Dates in the year 2011:
1.) 1- 1-11
2.) 1- 11-11
3.) 11-1-11
4.) 11-11-11
Peter Anamoh, who described himself as a “prophet to the nations”, claimed the destruction would commence from the sea in Ghana and would then proceed to the rest of the world. He however claimed the only place that would be safe was a village about an hour’s drive from Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.The founder of Makara Church, located near the Ghana Trade Fair site, has convinced his congregation and they have since left Accra for the ‘safe village’ in Bolgatanga.
OK folks see you on the other side of eternity whether heaven bound or hellish living if at all we survive the predicted destruction, we will get back on this matter. Thank God it's Friday. See you on aftermath of 11-11-11@11:11.
Yesterday I had a chat with a friend and we spoke about the relevance of 'ananse sem' (Ghanaian fables). We were particularly intrigued at its role in promoting socialisation as well as discipline (norms and good behaviour). The children will do anything to be punctual to hear the elderly tell some of the famous fables. The intelligent children always manage to retain and memorise as well as mimic the mannerisms of how to speak in public. It taught young ones the dos and donts without paying a pesewa. We also acknowledged the fact sometimes, the old person cleverly formulate and weave the story to expose a misbehaviour of one of the children sitting right in front without mentioning his or her name. However, woe betide you for you to insinuate that the old lady was fabricating a tale. We all swallow 'her anansesem' but most importantly, the lesson behind it. It is a good tradition we have almost lost to modernism and urbanism. While we might have lost that good tradition, we have clever people who have also managed to repackage those antics in the cloak of beliefs which is flourishing due in large to ignorance of the masses. This level of ignorance has nothing to do social standing including attainment of very high formal education. There are of course many educated illiterates parading in high places in Ghana. They lack the capacity to discern and be able to sift the chaff from the grain.
Beliefs are one of the strongest anchors on which to chain the imagination of the people. And talking of chaining the thinking cup of people, today happens to be another doomsdaysayers special favourite. The specialness and uniqueness of the day's date lends itself to manipulation and superstitious predictions. So a certain man of God has predicted that the world will be destroyed, Friday, November 11, 2011 (11-11-11 @11:11). It would be recalled that today is listed among the four special dates of note in 2011 in an earlier article posted on this site at the beginning of 2011 -Four Special Dates in the year 2011:
1.) 1- 1-11
2.) 1- 11-11
3.) 11-1-11
4.) 11-11-11
Peter Anamoh, who described himself as a “prophet to the nations”, claimed the destruction would commence from the sea in Ghana and would then proceed to the rest of the world. He however claimed the only place that would be safe was a village about an hour’s drive from Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.The founder of Makara Church, located near the Ghana Trade Fair site, has convinced his congregation and they have since left Accra for the ‘safe village’ in Bolgatanga.
