AFAS 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ant Colony
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Kamonou never found the way to nayambis home because of spider. Ogotemeli said tobacco makes for right thinking. Starts came from pallets of earth flung out into space by god amma who created the world by the art of pottery. Africans were creatures of light emanating from fullness of the sun. Europeans were creatures of their moonlight, hence their immature appearance. A jackal was born by the intercourse with the earth meaning troubles for god. Created half human beings and half serpents. Number 8 is a symbol of speech. Spirit was maker of second revelation - showed material actions and technical forces. Soy means - it is the spoken word - also means seven. Anscetor"s mimicked the shape of the anthill. Adcnaing toward a less primitive way of life. Repeated by human lips the concept of life in motion. Working at night would mean waiving webs of silence and darkness.