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The dogon are a group of people living in the central plateau region of Mali in a area dissected by the Bandiagra escarpement, a sandstone cliff of up to 500 m stretching for about 150 km.The dogon are primarlily agricularalist, they grow, Millet, , sorghun, rice beans.. The dogon are best known for the carving of masks and wooden figurative sculptures. The majority of Dogon pratice an animist religion defined primarily through the worshipping of the ancestors. Then men' society among the dogon controls the cult of the mask (Awa). The central element of Dogon cosmogony is the star sirius The Dogon claim that Sirius, or rather an invisible companion star around Sirius, is one of most important things in the sky. According to the Dogon, Sirius is called sigi tolo, and it has a tiny unseen companion called po tolo, or "deep beginning." The Dogon say the po grain is just like the star po tolo, tiny, white and very heavy. According to the Dogon creation myth, all things emerged from this star, just as all the other grain emerged from the first po seed grain. |
External links
http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/dogon.htm
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Dogon.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/dogon.html
http://www.ethnographica.com/pages/Dogon5.php?project_id=5
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7840
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0529_030529_dogon.html