Copied from the book, Cosmic Chain by Onyeji Nnaji A frican myth is multifaceted to be understood at just one attempt. No African myth is understood from one direction. It is dully interwoven, just like the didactic of folklore. The involvement of both human and non-human characters makes its understanding very difficult. The same reason makes it relatively unreal to an ignoble fellow. The reason is that, in Africa, nature speaks. And the speech of nature can be demonstrated by anything found in the African society. We have a world where the wind, the stars, the sun, moon, water, trees, birds and even land speaks. The expectation on the analyst of nature language is to understand the medium through which these nature characters communicate. This is the sole reason why certain nature element is retained by a society as her totemic tool. Some of these nature elements relevant in African mythological studies and the views they represent in the different African oral traditions is