Sacred myths from Santer a centered on nature and the natural world - Includes more than 40 myths, stories, and histories from the Lucum tradition - Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories - Demonstrates that the African peoples, specifically the Yoruba, had deep philosophies and metaphysics involving nature and the natural world Since ancient times the Yoruba of West Africa created sacred stories-- patak s --to make sense of the wo.