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Dogon cosmology: Amma the creator and the Nommo who taught civilization
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Dogon cosmology: Amma the creator and the Nommo who taught civilization

Sahara civilization of the superior indigo race (UB 78:1.10)
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Sahara civilization of the superior indigo race (UB 78:1.10)

Sahara civilization of the superior indigo race (UB 78:1.10) = Dogon cosmology: Amma the creator and the Nommo who taught civilization

Informed SpeculationModerate evidenceAfrican (Sub-Saharan)

The Connection

The UB describes the pre-desertification Sahara as the home of "the superior elements of the indigo race" who built "the most progressive settlements" of their race and carried strains of the extinct orange and green races. The Dogon of present-day Mali and Burkina Faso, who migrated south from the Sahara as it dried, preserve one of the most elaborate creation cosmologies in Africa: the supreme Amma creates the Nommo, amphibious ancestor-teachers who descend to earth and give humans language, agriculture, and ritual. The Nommo are not Amma, they serve Amma. The structural match to the Prince's corporeal staff serving the Universal Father is exact, and the Dogon migration route traces back to the very region the UB identifies.

UB Citation

UB 78:1.10, 80:1.4, 80:2.1

Academic Source

Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli (1948); Dieterlen, The Pale Fox (1965)

Historical Evidence(Moderate evidence)

Marcel Griaule's decades of fieldwork with the Dogon elder Ogotemmêli recorded a cosmology in which Amma, the single supreme creator, sends the Nommo (twin or octuple ancestor-teachers) to earth to teach humanity the arts of civilization. Germaine Dieterlen's The Pale Fox documents the Dogon granary of knowledge, an organized body of cosmological teachings strikingly similar to the Sumerian ME and the UB's ten councils of the Prince's staff. The Sahara drought the UB dates at roughly 10,000 BCE matches the archaeological end of the "Green Sahara," and the southward migration of its peoples carried their cosmology with them.

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