The society refers to a cosmology, that is, a system of beliefs describing and explaining the origin and nature of the cosmos, the universe and the place humans occupy in it. Myths concerning the origin of the world express these beliefs, the values attached to them; they reflect the way of conceiving the world which characterizes the culture of a population, and therefore its way of living and its relationship with its environment.
At the Bambara
Fimba, the Superior Spirit, created the earth, as well as the angels, the jinn and the men to worship him. Jinns and men do not have the same conception of time in space, because they are not of the same nature: thus, men, created from clay, cannot bear the sight of a jinn in its natural element because the nature of the jinn belongs to fire. Fimba buried in the earth a part of Himself which germinated, then gave the Balanzan tree (Acacia albida) which, in turn, created Muso Koroni Koundjè to serve him, but he rebelled, causing all the evils that humans have suffered since. Balanzan became tyrannical to the point of feeding on the blood of men and reveling in the virginal menstrual blood. So, in order to put an end to the atrocities committed by Balanzan, Fimba sent Faro, the Genie of the water who ordered the world with the help of Teliko, the Master of the air and the breath.
At the Dogon
The omnipotent and immaterial creator god Amma created our planetary system by throwing earth pellets which became the stars. He created the Sun (female), the Moon (male), then the Earth by kneading a rod of clay and stretching it in four directions until producing a woman lying on her back, oriented in the North axis. -South. He then unites with Mother Earth, symbolized by the egg of the world with the double placenta, in order to generate creatures responsible for promoting his creation. Fertilized by Amma's word-breath, twins were born: Nommo and Yurugu or the "Pale Fox". The latter, an imperfect being, knew only the first word, the secret language sigi so, or the "stolen word", represented by graphs whose fox paws trace the symbols. The land then gave Amma other twins, the Nommo both male and female. Masters of the word, they taught it to the first eight ancestors of humans, that is to say four couples of twins born from the first couple shaped in clay by Amma who put in each being and everything a part of her creator Word.
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