Dyongou Sérou

Named first ancestor and Sérou eponym: bearer of the first Word, the first being to die after transgressing the order between worlds; his death founds the masks and the Sigui rite.

Parentage

• Nommo

Domains

• death
• speech word
• ancestral origins

Powers

• Receive and utter the first, primitive Word
• Become the first being to enter death
• Be commemorated by the masks and the Sigui rite

Epithets

• the first dead
• ancestor of the great mask

Relations

• sibling: Binou Sérou
• sibling: Lébé
• kin: The Eight Ancestors
• sibling: The Eight Ancestors
• sibling: The Smith (Master of Fire)

Sources

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