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Dogon · deity · mythic ancestral · deity

First ancestor who died and was reborn as a serpent; spirit of earth, renewal and agriculture.

Parentage

Amma

Domains

earth
renewal agriculture

Powers

Renew the fertility of the soil each season
Return from death in the form of a great serpent
renews the fertility of the soil each season as the spirit of the earth

Relations

sibling: The Eight Ancestors
sibling: Dyongou Sérou
sibling: Binou Sérou
sibling: Nommo
sibling: Ogo

Sources

Griaule & Dieterlen, Le renard pâle (Paris, 1965)
Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli (1965)

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