All agree, however, that they learned about the star from Griaule. though they do speak about sigu tolo they disagree completely with each other as to which star is meant for some it is an invisible star that should rise to announce the sigu, for another it is Venus that, through a different position, appears as sigu tolo. Van Beek postulated that Griaule engaged in such leading and forceful questioning of his Dogon sources that new myths were created in the process by confabulation, writing that: Walter van Beek, an anthropologist studying the Dogon, found no evidence that they had any historical advanced knowledge of Sirius.
The Nommo are also thought to be the origin of the first Hogon. He gave all his life principles to human beings." According to the myth related to Griaule and Dieterlen: "The Nommo divided his body among men to feed them that is why it is also said that as the universe "had drunk of his body," the Nommo also made men drink. The Dogon legends state that the Nommos required a watery environment in which to live. After arriving, the Nommos created a reservoir of water and subsequently dived into the water. The Nommos descended from the sky in a vessel accompanied by fire and thunder. The Dogon reportedly related to Griaule and Dieterlen a belief that the Nommos were inhabitants of a world circling the star Sirius (see the main article on the Dogon for a discussion of their astronomical knowledge).
In the latter part of the 1940s, French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen (who had been working with the Dogon since 1931) wrote that they were the recipients of additional, secret mythologies, concerning the Nommo. This dispersal of body parts is seen by the Dogon as the source for the proliferation of Binu shrines throughout the Dogons' traditional territory wherever a body part fell, a shrine was erected.
To restore order to his creation, Amma sacrificed another of the Nommo progeny, whose body was dismembered and scattered throughout the universe. One of the twins rebelled against the universal order created by Amma. Shortly after his creation, Nommo underwent a transformation and multiplied into four pairs of twins. Nommo mythology ĭogon religion and creation mythology says that Nommo was the first living creature created by the sky god Amma. For purposes of this article, "Nommo" refers to a specific individual and "Nommos" is used to reference the group of beings. Nommo can be a proper name of an individual or can refer to the group of spirits as a whole. Nommos are also referred to as "Masters of the Water", "the Monitors", and "the Teachers". Folk art depictions of Nommos show creatures with humanoid upper torsos, legs/feet, and a fish-like lower torso and tail. The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word meaning "to make one drink." Nommos are usually described as amphibious, hermaphroditic, fish-like creatures. The Nommo or Nummo are primordial ancestral spirits in Dogon religion and cosmogony (sometimes referred to as demi deities) venerated by the Dogon people of Mali.
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