Dogon Mythology
Dogon Mythology: The Complete Guide to Amma, the Nommo, and the Mystery of Sirius
Amma, the Nommo, and Sirius
The cosmology of a people who carved their villages into a cliff in Mali, and who, some claim, knew of an invisible companion star to Sirius. The creator Amma, the amphibious Nommo, the cosmic egg, and one of anthropology’s great controversies.
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Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to the field accounts
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The People of the Cliff
- 02Amma and the Cosmic Egg
- 03The Nommo: The Twins of Water and the Word
- 04The Fall of the Pale Fox and the Broken Order
- 05The Eight Ancestors and the First Fields
- 06The Granary That Came Down from the Sky
- 07The Word, the Loom, and the Spread of Speech
- 08The Sigui and the Sixty-Year Festival
- 09The Masks and the Dama of the Dead
- 10Sirius and the Sigui Star: The Great Controversy
- 11Griaule, the Dogon, and the Limits of What We Know
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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