The Eight Ancestors
Dogon · deity · mythic ancestral · deity
Collective figure for the eight primordial ancestors — four male/female twin couples drawn from the sacrificed Nommo, sent down in the ark, ancestors of the eight families and four Dogon lineages. Authored as one entity because the sources treat them as a set rather than eight stably individuated names.
Parentage
Domains
- ancestral origins
- creation of humankind
- weaving
Powers
- Be drawn as four twin couples from the body of the sacrificed Nommo
- Descend to earth in the ark with all that humankind would need
- Found the eight families and the Dogon lineages
Relations
- sibling: Lébé
- kin: Dyongou Sérou
- kin: Binou Sérou
- sibling: Binou Sérou
- sibling: Dyongou Sérou
- sibling: The Smith (Master of Fire)