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I meant the Nommo. Written about by the Dogon... The Nommo are ancestral spirits (sometimes referred to as deities) worshipped by the Dogon tribe of Mali. The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word meaning "to make one drink."
The Nommos are usually described as amphibious, hermaphroditic, fish-like creatures.
Folk art depictions of the Nommos show creatures with humanoid upper torsos, legs/feet, and a fish-like lower torso and tail. The Nommos are also referred to as “Masters of the Water”, “the Monitors”, and "the Teachers”. Nommo can be a proper name of an individual, or can refer to the group of spirits as a whole. For purposes of this article “Nommo” refers to a specific individual and “Nommos” is used to reference the group of beings. [ link to en.wikipedia.org] :mermaid: Quoting: Seer777 Dogon mythology says that Nommo was the first living creature created by the sky god Amma. Shortly after his creation, Nommo underwent a transformation and multiplied into four pairs of twins. One of the twins rebelled against the universal order created by Amma. To restore order to his creation, Amma sacrificed another of the Nommo progeny, whose body was dismembered and scattered throughout the universe. 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. Quoting: observation [ link to en.wikipedia.org] if clever people arrived from the sky , did stuff you witnesses than left again and your environment had become created in the vistors stay , would you form a story to explain what happened and why did it occur to you out of all the other lights in the sky where you do not know if it occured but you assume it did so, just as it did to you Quoting: aether Interesting how closely that correlates to the Myth of Osiris, Isis, and Set... Quoting: Seer777 Whoa, is that why the fire breath dodecahedron doesn't work for some because it is a shared wave because one rebelled? I think this story is talking about all that in their perspective.
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