The procession of Dogon masks that come out to perform during dama ceremonies, or the end of mourning, represent various aspects of Dogon cosmology, evoking personalities or events from mythology; ...

Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Dogon villages have no electricity.

Some three decades ago I became aware of the Dogon people through a book called “Conversations with Ogotemmelli,” by Marcel Griaule. For me, this interesting culture always symbolized the great ...

Concepts of comparative cosmology -- Signature signs of the parent cosmology -- The Dogon mythological structure of matter -- Symbolism -- Guiding metaphors of the cosmology -- The egg-in-a-ball -- ...