Foroforondou is the wife and ritual partner of the bush-spirit Koumen in the pastoral initiation recorded by Hampâté Bâ and Dieterlen. She is the mistress of the milk: she governs the milking and the apportioning of milk and watches over the kaggu, the lattice milk-altar that is the chief shrine of the Fulɓe shepherds, together with its sacramental herding objects. Alongside Koumen she conducts the herder Silé Sadio through the twelve clearings of knowledge, and at their completion she places in his hands the rope of twenty-eight knots, whose untying corresponds to the twenty-eight days of the lunar month and signifies the attainment of full pastoral knowledge.