The Elephant's Secret

Question: What is the weirdest myth you have ever read/heard?

"Weird" is such a weird word, you know? Every culture's myths look weird to people outside it, especially if their values and ideals are very different. Something that looks weird to me might look completely normal to someone from the culture that it originated in, while myths that look par for the course to us might look like insane shenanigans from someone else's point of view.

Also, we have read a lot of myths that qualify as weird. A lot. People are batshit insane. Gods are even more so.

But here's our current weirdest myth, culled from our research as we work on the Loa/Orisha rewrite:

One day, Orunmila, the god of prophecy, decided to plumb all the secrets of the elephant by entering his anus. The elephant attempted to flee, but Orunmila caught up to him and crawled into his behind. Orunmila's disciples were worried when he didn't re-emerge and couldn't figure out what to do with the elephant, so they called Ogun and Oshosi to come help them. The two gods cut the elephant into pieces, but to everyone's surprise, Orunmila was no longer inside it, and instead they found the divining tray and palm nuts that could help foretell the future. Orunmila had vanished and gone to live permanently in heaven.

So, yeah, there's a myth where humanity and the other gods receive the tools of divination because the god of prophecy planted them in an elephant's ass. You're welcome, humanity.

There are actually several myths involving the divining tray and how humans get access to it in Yoruba mythology, and this is only one of them. The others generally have about 100% fewer animal rectums involved, however, so I'd have to call this the weirdest among them.