The Andoumboulou

Collective figure for the Andoumboulou — the imperfect first little humans engendered by the Yeban; earth-dwellers who could become serpents and from whom the Dogon derive the masks and the Sigui. Parented by dogon_yeban (the reciprocal 'ancestor of' edge sits on the Yeban).

Parentage

• The Yeban

Domains

• earth
• ancestral origins

Powers

• Be the imperfect, failed first humans
• Transform into serpents to enter the caves of the earth
• Be the origin of the masks and the Sigui

Sources

• Griaule & Dieterlen, Le renard pâle (Paris, 1965)
• Griaule & Dieterlen, Le renard pâle (1965)