Dyongou Sérou
Dogon · deity · mythic ancestral · deity
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
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)