African mythology covers a vast area. The African continent includes so many countries, regions, languages, tribes, cultures and crossovers that the sheer diversity of prevailing Gods would seem overwhelming if there weren’t a few handy shortcuts.
Traditional African belief is overwhelmingly monotheistic. There may be spirits and ancestors floating around, but there’s only one God. Early missionaries made a complete pig’s ear of their research in this respect and seem to have delighted in cataloging as many ‘heathen’ Gods as they could possibly get away with.
African Creator Gods seem to follow a distinctive pattern — they are all extremely dissatisfied with their creations. There is much shaking of heads, turning away in sorrow and avoidance of contact. The humans are left to fend for themselves. Attempts to regain contact with their God by building a heavenly ladder are the subject of many an unhappy legend. On the whole, African Gods don’t like to be pestered, and humans have to learn to be content with their lot.
But while God sits in Heaven wringing his hands in despair, the ancestral spirits are very willing to take an active part in Earthly life. These are mostly into hunting and other practical subjects — with food, sex and booze as popular as always.
There is a remarkable innocence about the Gods of Africa. They seem naive and unworldly, believing the best of everyone and optimistically giving the benefit of the doubt to all and sundry. No wonder they are rudely disappointed when it turns out their badly-chosen favorites are up to no good.
Even communicating with their creation is full of problems. Vital messages of life and death are entrusted to whichever farmyard animal happens to be passing, and the resulting garble is likely to have profoundly unforeseen — and usually disastrous — consequences...
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Psychology Major here! :) Hope this helps:
1) Up to date, there is still no definite answer when it comes the capacity of information a brain can withhold - it is truly unlimited.
2) The size of a brain varies between species and its capacity to retain information varies as well.
3) Humans have the most complex psychological process to understand, however, there are many other species who have incredible cognitive intelligence. (Such as dolphins, for example.)
4) When damage is done to a certain side of the brain and there is a need to remove the damaged area, there is a possibility that the undamaged parts of the brain can take over the same functions as the removed area. (Therefore, for example, the remaining part of your brain can still nearly function to a maximum capacity depending of the severity of damage... as well as area).
5) The brain named itself "brain".
(The brain controls you, but you control the brain.)
Answer:
<h3>It means that his dad was not quite sure about Chris joining the wheelchair basketball team.</h3>
Explanation:
- When Chris met with the accident, his dad Jim took the blame to himself and was never over it. His dad was a man of few words and kept almost everything to himself.
- When Chris told about his parents about the wheelchair basketball team, his mother approved it instantly but his father just stared at him and mumbled few words.
- At this, Chris' mom tells him that his dad is "chewing up his words to see how they taste before he lets them out". She said it to mean that his dad was not quite sure about Chris joining the wheelchair basketball team.
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