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African creation stories

An elderly Xhosa woman weaves outside her hut at night, her golden threads glowing and rising into the starry sky above the hills

The Woman Who Wove the Night Sky

African Folktales·South African Folktales·Southern African Folktales

In a quiet valley where the wind carried the songs of the ancestors, there once lived an old woman named Nomvula. Her back was bent with age, and her hair was as white as mountain mist, but her hands remained steady and sure. She was the finest weaver in her village, known for her tapestries that shimmered like morning dew

Nkubito creating the first Burundian people from clay with Mwami nearby, symbolizing Burundi’s divine origin myth.

African Folktales·Burundian Folktales·East African Folktales

The Legend of the Burundian Origin

Long ago, before rivers carved their paths through the valleys and before mountains rose proudly above the plains, there was only silence and emptiness. Out of this vast stillness came Nkubito, the benevolent creator god, who shaped the destiny of the Burundian people. With careful hands, Nkubito molded figures from