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The Nommo or Nummo are primordial ancestral spirits in Dogon religion and cosmogony (sometimes referred to as demi deities) venerated by the Dogon people of Mali. [1] The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word meaning "to make one drink." Nommos are usually described as amphibious, hermaphroditic, fish-like creatures. Folk art depictions of ...
The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture, and their architecture. Since the twentieth century, there have been significant changes in the social organisation, material culture and beliefs of the Dogon, in part because Dogon country is one of Mali's major tourist attractions.
The Dogon use the name "Tellem" (= Temmem) to describe the people who lived on the cliff before them.The literal meaning of this word is: "We found them". The name has a much broader meaning among the Dogon, both in place and in time, than "Tellem" in the sense of "Tellem culture".
The Binou (or Binou cult [1]) is a Dogon totemic, religious order and secret ceremonial practice which venerates the immortal ancestors. [2] It can also mean a water serpent or protector of a family or clan in Dogon. [3] It is one of the four tenets of Dogon religion—an African spirituality among the Dogon people of Mali.
The Dogon religion, cosmogony, cosmology and astronomy have been subjects of intense study by ethnologists and anthropologists since the 1930s. One of the first Western writers to document Dogon's religious beliefs was the French ethnologist Marcel Griaule —who interviewed the Dogon high priest and elder Ogotommeli back in the early 1930s.
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An art dealer in Sangha, Mali, professes to be the grandson of Ogotemmeli, known from Griaule's publications, 1990. Ogotemmeli (also: Ogotemmêli [2] or Ogotommeli, died 1962 [1]) was the Dogon elder and hogon who narrated the cosmogony, cosmology and symbols of the Dogon people to French anthropologist Marcel Griaule during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, that went on to be documented and ...
A woman is breaking tradition when it comes to proposals. Talitha Degier shared on TikTok that she decided to pop the question to her boyfriend — a choice she said she didn’t regret and which ...