(Department of French, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-10-22) Adeagbo, Tunde John
This paper is an attempt to explain the meaning of metaphysical
myths through the novels of Camara Laye. It enumerates the four
forms which myths may take. It also relies on the concept of
indexical signs as explained by Peirce (1998) in order to establish
the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. The
paper finds out that objects could be deified to have metaphysical
power in black Africa. The paper later concludes that every deified
object operates above'those who deified them and that in black
Africa the art of deifying object is mainly carried out by the elders.