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REFLECTION OF AFRICAN COSMOLOGY IN MY LANDSCAPES The role of Arts in African Society is an important one for all who are concerned with the advancement of African Culture, African thought and the African pwesonality. No human Society can exist without some form of views of the world in which it lives. All the senses of perception hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting and smelling are open gates for human awareness of man's own existence and that of the world. The most fundamental assumption in African cosmology is that the Universe was created by God, because this is a created Universe, it is a religious university. African peoples look upon the world as a religious Universe, to live in which is also a religious experience. This outlook upon the Universe as being religious, shows itself in African attitude towards nature and the specifically religious activities that they carry-out without drawing a dichotomy between so-call "Secular" and Sacred", or "physical" and "spiritual". While the Universe is essentially one, people conceive of it in the form of the earthly and the heavenly or in terms of the visible and the invisible. The heavenly Universe is the home of God. For that reason he is called the "Owner of the SKY" or "Heaven's physical bodies, it also has spiritual being, some of whom are thought to be in charge of different departments of the Universe, and other to be messengers of God. Thus, thew heavenly world is not empty; it is populated with its own life Some of this life is simply personications of the heavenly objects and phenomena. The earthly world is pictured and trated ritually,the earth is the home of man who is the centre of the Universe. It is from the earth that man awakens the universe, speaks to it and depict is in art form because of African traditional religion is inseparable from African traditional Art. MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT African Myths of creation put man at the centre of the universe. This is almost to be expected because, Since God is the creator and sustainer of the Universe, He must be beyond and outside of the Universe both in status and being. On the
