{"id":22398,"date":"2022-08-07T17:42:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=22398"},"modified":"2022-08-07T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:44:39","slug":"anansi-et-lepi-de-mais","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/akan-mythology\/anansi-and-lepi-of-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Anansi and the corn cob"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"22398\" class=\"elementor elementor-22398\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7206cf8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7206cf8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8a131b4\" data-id=\"8a131b4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29e2935 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"29e2935\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/akan-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Akan mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1bdff1c\" data-id=\"1bdff1c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65ef1e0 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"65ef1e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gateway-africa.com\/stories\/anansi-and-the-ear-of-corn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-97e1bd5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"97e1bd5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-05a1279\" data-id=\"05a1279\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d86cfd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d86cfd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This is the Anansi tale and the corncob.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9347 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Anansi and the corn cob\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c867ee elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c867ee\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1f05ca2\" data-id=\"1f05ca2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ab3179f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ab3179f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/akan-mythology\/anansi-and-lepi-of-corn\/#Anansi-et-lepi-de-mais\" >Anansi and the corn cob<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Anansi-et-lepi-de-mais\"><\/span>Anansi and the corn cob<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ad6ade1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ad6ade1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1824cb7\" data-id=\"1824cb7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6f896e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6f896e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Anansi was one of God&#039;s chosen ones and he lived in human form before becoming a spider.<\/p><p>One day he asked God for a single ear of corn, promising that he would repay God with a hundred servants. God was always amused by the boastful and resourceful Anansi, and gave him the ear of corn.<\/p><p>Anansi left with the ear and came to rest in an African village. He told the village chief that he had a sacred cob from God and needed both a place to sleep for the night and a safe place to keep the treasure. The chief treated Anansi as an honored guest and gave him a thatched-roof house to stay in, showing him a hiding place in the roof.<\/p><p>During the night, when the whole village was sleeping soundly, Anansi took the maize and fed it to the chickens.<\/p><p>The next morning, Anansi woke up the village with her screams. &quot;What happened to the holy corn?&quot; Who stole it? God will certainly bring a great chastisement to this village! He made such a fuss that the villagers begged him to take a whole bushel of maize as an apology. He then walked down the road with the bushel of corn until it became too heavy to carry. He then met a man on the road who had a chicken, and Anansi traded the corn for the chicken.<\/p><p>When Anansi arrived at the next village, he asked for a place to stay and a safe place to keep the &quot;sacred&quot; chicken. In this new village, Anansi was again treated as an honored guest, a big party was thrown in his honor, and he was shown a house to stay in and given a safe place for the chicken.\u00a0<\/p><p>During the night, Anansi slaughtered the chicken and smeared its blood and feathers on the door of the chief&#039;s house. In the morning, he woke everyone up with his cries: &quot;The sacred chicken has been killed!&quot; God will surely destroy this village for allowing this to happen! shouted Anansi.<\/p><p>The frightened villagers begged Anansi to take ten of their best sheep as a token of their sincere apologies.<\/p><p>Anansi led the sheep down the road until he came to a group of men carrying a corpse.<\/p><p>He asked the men whose bodies they were carrying. The men replied that a traveler had died in their village and they were taking the body home for a proper burial.<\/p><p>Anansi then exchanged the sheep for the corpse and started down the road.<\/p><p>At the nearby village, Anansi told people that the corpse was a sleeping Son of God. He told them to be very quiet so as not to wake this important guest. The people of this village also had a big party and treated Anansi like royalty.<\/p><p>When morning came, Anansi told the villagers that he was having trouble waking the &quot;son of God&quot; from his sleep, and he asked for their help. They began by beating drums, and the visitor remained asleep. Then they banged pots and pans, but he was still &quot;asleep.&quot; Then the villagers hit the visitor on the chest, and he still did not move.<\/p><p>Suddenly, Anansi cried out, \u201cYou killed him! You killed a son of God! Oh no ! God will certainly destroy this whole village, if not the whole world!<\/p><p>The terrified villagers then told Anansi that he could choose a hundred of their best young men as slaves, if only he would call on God to save them.<\/p><p>So Anansi returned to God, having turned an ear of corn into a hundred slaves.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie Akan Wiki Voici le conte Anansi et l&rsquo;\u00e9pi de ma\u00efs. Anansi et l&rsquo;\u00e9pi de ma\u00efs Anansi \u00e9tait l&rsquo;un des &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4092,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22402,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22398\/revisions\/22402"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}