Cosmology: The Yoruba Worldview
‘As above, so below‘ is a popular phrase in metaphysics. In Yorùbá, igbá aiyé (world’s calabash, symbolic of the cylindrical shape of our globe) – see diagram above – represented by the circle as a symbol of universality. Igbá aiyé suggests that the Yorùbá worldview comprehends a spherical globe long before the Galileos and Copernicuses of this world refuted the early position of Christendom, that the