What is "dogon"

Usage examples of "dogon".

The Dogon are divided into four tribes, each of which had a different role at one time.

Circumcision is absolutely fundamental to Dogon culture for religious reasons.

There was no wind in the sail, but the Dogon had taken up their paddles.

But Charity noticed that the Dogon were paddling as fast and as hard as they could.

The Dogon had paddled without ceasing until they came into the reach of a long spit of sand.

The princess had wandered down to the end of the island, and Varana came up behind her as she stood watching the Dogon women working in their garden.

The circle of Dogon houses stood out on a peninsula into the lake, poor huts of clay and broken stone, away from the rest of the village.

There, while the Dogon women worked, the men sat idle in small groups, laughing and conversing.

Some of the Dogon were sitting on the floor, scuffling their feet in the dirt, smiling at each other, looking bored.

But seven people from the town were there, and some of the Dogon too, for Freedom Love had lent them Gudrun Sarkis to ferry them across the lake.

The boat was pulled up on the sand, and the Dogon stood around it, talking.

The Dogon brewed a stuff called raxshi, and he smelled as if he had been drinking it.

The townsfolk had all moved away except for Freedom Love and the Dogon, who were waiting for his signal to push the boat adrift.

The one exception is the remarkable mythology surrounding the star Sirius mat is held by the Dogon people of the Republic of Mali.

There are some elements of their mythology that are reminiscent of the legends of the ancient Egyptian civilization, and some anthropologists have assumed a weak Dogon cultural connection with ancient Egypt.