Nommo

Amphibious hermaphroditic twin ancestors created by Amma; bringers of water, speech and order.

Parentage

• Amma

Children

• Binou Sérou
• Dyongou Sérou
• The Eight Ancestors
• The Smith (Master of Fire)

Domains

• water
• speech word
• cosmic order

Powers

• Bring water, rain and life to the earth
• Teach speech, weaving and the crafts to humans
• Be sacrificed and resurrected to purify the world

Epithets

• the Masters of the Water

Relations

• enemy: The Smith (Master of Fire)
• sibling: Lébé
• sibling: Ogo

Sources

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