About Afrodeities

Where Mythology Becomes Visible

African mythology rendered as art. Five collections. Five portals into African civilisational intelligence.

SACRED GEOMETRY The geometry that built empires and crossed oceans. 17 visual mythologies covering African mathematics, cosmology, philosophy, resistance, and the sacred patterns that connect Africa to its diaspora. Explore Sacred Geometry

GODDESS The women who held supreme authority across the entire continent. From the Igbo Agbala to the Kandakes of Nubia, the Sangoma to the Mambo of Haiti — African women of power the world forgot to name. Meet the Goddesses

MYTHIC CONNECTIONS — Iyi na Oyi The relationships, love stories, and sacred bonds that run through African cosmology. The connections that hold everything together across rupture and time. Discover Mythic Connections

AFROMANTASY Story-led African fantasy. Where mythology becomes lived reality. Ember, Senanya, the Canopy, the Shadow — worlds where African knowledge systems operate as the logic of existence itself. Enter Afromantasy

THE AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY CANON: 30 volumes of African mythology organised geographically across West, Central, East, Nile, and Southern Africa. The complete visual compendium. View the Canon

Books. Art. Code. Reclamation.

Afrodeities Press

Nigerian Mythology: The Shadow Sky maps the cosmology beneath Yoruba and Igbo tradition — the shadow world that mirrors and interpenetrates the visible one.

Meet the Orishas introduces the Yoruba pantheon not as folklore but as the sophisticated theological architecture they actually are.

The Girl Who Climbed the Tree brings African mythology to children who deserve to know they come from brilliance.

The Bridgeworks — our 12-component analytical framework — maps how African civilisations encoded knowledge across Time, Fable, Griot, Script, Sigil, Numbers, Soil, and more. It is forensic historiography applied to systematic erasure.

MythOS - Ekolu Tethys takes African cosmological principles and turns them into AI source code. Justice, Truth, Equity, Beauty, Remedy, Dignity — frameworks that think communally rather than extractively, that prioritize balance over optimization.

This is the ecosystem African mythology deserves. From codex to code. From myth to operating system.

African gods. African history. African knowledge. All of it treated with the seriousness it always deserved.

We are building the canon African mythology always deserved: 30 volumes across West, Central, East, Nile, and Southern Africa. Five visual universes. The Bridgeworks analytical framework. Books that sell. Art that teaches. Scholarship that changes what gets taught.

This is not preservation. This is reclamation.

Founded by Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi — Nigerian-British author, mythologist, and founder of the Afrodeities Institute.

African Mythology and History Tales and Compendium

Exploring African mythology through captivating narratives and stories.

Mythical Journey

Discover the magic of African storytelling and lore.

Spirit Tales

Unveiling stories from Senegambia and Dahomey's rich culture.

Traditions

Unveiling stories of African's scripts and symbols.

Art and Media

African civilisations perfected artistry across a plethora of media

Explore the visual foundations of African knowledge systems through our Sacred Geometry collection https://afrodeitiessacredgeometry.myportfolio.com

Afrodeities African Story Led Art

Code → Codex → Cod(Ing)e

The Full Cycle of African Knowledge

CODE (original)

African knowledge was always code. Not "culture." Not "tradition." Code.

• Ifa divination = binary mathematical system (256 configurations, structurally identical to Leibniz's code)

• Ubuntu = distributed cognition framework (relational ontology as operating system)

• Ma'at = justice algorithm (cosmic balance as governance principle)

• Griot = memory architecture (700 years of accurate genealogy carried orally)

• African Time = synchronisation system (Nile floods as calibration mechanism)

These weren't beliefs. They were systems — rules, logic, frameworks governing reality, society, and survival.

African civilisations encoded law, science, governance, ecology, and ethics into mythology, ritual, symbol, and practice because those forms survive when libraries burn. The code was always there. The world either just didn't get a chance to see it or know how to read it.

Codex (documentation)

Afrodeities is building the Codice, documenting African knowledge systems with the rigour they always deserved:

The Bridgeworks: 12-component analytical framework mapping how African civilisations encoded and transmitted knowledge

Corrective History

Evidence-based research restoring what was systematically erased

Books

Nigerian Mythology, the Orishas, + 30 planned volumes across Africa

Visual Mythologies

Five collections making African knowledge visible

The Codex makes African code legible, so it can be taught, cited, built upon, and returned to operation.

Codex (docuCODE (implementation)

Now we return it to code.

MythOS — Ekolu Tethys takes African cosmological principles and turns them into AI source code:

• Justice (not extraction)

• Truth (not deception)

• Equity (not exploitation)

• Beauty (not destruction)

• Remedy (not punishment)

• Dignity (not dehumanisation)

Systems that think communally, prioritise balance, understand time as cyclical, and operate from Ubuntu's "I am because we are."

Codex returning to codable principles that can be programmed, African knowledge systems becoming the logic that runs technology, governance, and future.

The full cycle:

African civilisations created CODE (sophisticated systems)
↓
Colonialism destroyed/hid/stole it
↓
Afrodeities documents it as CODEX (published, legible, citable)
↓
MythOS implements it as CODE (AI, technology, living practice)

CODE → CODEX → CODE

African knowledge was always infrastructure.
We're proving it.
Then building on it.