The dispute between heaven and earth is a myth of the origins of the Mali Dogon, which wants to explain how the world originated. So this is a sacred oral story that is also useful to strengthen and unify the community. The myth reveals the primary function of describing how things went to the origin of life when the life of living beings spread from a primordial chaos.

Tramamodifies wikitesto According to mythological narrative, one day there was a dispute between heaven and earth, and the latter claimed to be the oldest in the sky. The Supreme God Amma was unhappy with this dispute and made the sky over the earth, and this fact had devastating consequences for animals, men and plants, occurred in all seven overlapping lands that constitute the cosmos of Dagon's mythology. Among the men saved the kumogu visionaries who had made themselves in time to turn into reptiles and Yéban genes, ancestors of humans. Finally the earth admitted the superiority of the sky and the normality of things was restored and the sky rises above the earth at a very small distance so much so that women could collect the stars to give them to the children. However, the sky was too low for women to stumble in their daily work, and one day an old woman put him, thanks to the push of his stick, to the position he occupies at the moment and so the world went on. Notemodify wikitesto Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto Voices correlateemodify wikitesto

Creating the World

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