Dogon Tribe
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The year was 1947. The French anthropologist Marcel Griaule had been studying African culture for 19 years, and had been living among and studying the Dogon tribe of French West Africa for 16 of those years. The Dogon live in a place called Bandiagara, in what is today the nation of Mali, between the fabled city of Timbouctou and the city of Ougadougou. Bandiagara is quite isolated, although Timbouctou was once a mighty trading center on the Trans-Saharan trade routes. By the beginning of the twentieth century, all of this area had become a French possession known as French West Africa.
Secret knowledge
That year, Griaule was approached by some of the Dogon elders who said that they wished to tell him some of the secret knowledge of their tribe. Griaule had been among them for sixteen years and they had come to accept and respect him. The elders had decided that he could be trusted with their secret knowledge, the knowledge that even most of the Dogon people did not know. This knowledge had been passed down in the oral traditions of the Dogon for centuries. It is common for the peoples of Africa to transmit their tribal lore and their history from generation to generation by this method of oral transmission, as you might recall from Roots.
The Dogon elders proceeded to tell Griaule the story of how the universe was created according to their secret mythology. They told him how the Nommo, creatures that were half-human and half-fish, began civilization on the Earth. Griaule was told of the Sigui ceremony which is held every sixty years and which represents the renewal of the universe. He was shown four hundred-year-old masks that were used in the Sigui rites.
Perhaps the most interesting thing that the elders told Griaule was their cosmology. They told him of their knowledge that the moon is dry and barren, that Saturn - the star of limiting place - has rings around it and that Jupiter - dana tolo - has four large moons. They knew that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy of stars, and that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the Sun.
The Dogon have a special reverence for Sirius. The elders told Griaule that Sirius is not just one star, but three. The one we see, sigi tolo (Sirius A) is just the largest and brigh-*test*-('"). It is orbited by a smaller star, po tolo (Sirius B) which is named after a tiny grain that is also called Digitaria. They believe that this tiny star is the heaviest thing in the universe and that it is made of a metal called sagala. This tiny star orbits sigi tolo every fifty years, in an elliptical orbit. The third star in the system is called emme ya, the sun of women. It is four times lighter in weight than po tolo, and it travels in the same direction around sigi tolo, but in a larger orbit. It moves much more quickly through space, so that it takes the same amount of time to complete an orbit around sigi tolo. Emme ya has a satellite or planet of its own, called the Goatherd or the star of women. There are drawings on the four-hundred-year old sigui mask that represent this cosmology.
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Dogon Creation Myth.
A rough idea of their creation myth is as follows:
The Dogon hold a belief that the Supreme God Amma created Earth and then married her. However the clitoris of Earth rose up against the divine phallus and as a consequence Amma had to cut it from her before he could take possession of his new wife. From this union of Amma and Earth was born Yurugu, who would introduce disorder and chaos. It was after this that Amma re-fertilised Earth by the way of rain and the following result was twins, these were one female and one male who would become the model for all future creations. These twins would be labelled Nommo.
Nommo in respect to their mother Earth then used a fibre skirt with which they covered her nakedness. Seeing this and disliking it Yurugu then commits the first act of incest, which brings about the evil Spirits of the Bush and as a result of Earth now being impure the emergence of menstrual blood. Amma then decides to leave Earth and carry on with the Creation on his own. He firstly creates eight ancestors, four of which are female and four male. These ancestors then give rise to eighty descendants from which the world’s population would arise.
The Nommo then decide to send down the first Smith who comes down by an Ark via the Rainbow and has with him copies of all living things, minerals and techniques. He is the one responsible for the foundations of all social structures and as such is classed as a Dogon hero.
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