Dancing_In_The_Dogon

Dancing In The Dogon Dancing in the Dogon The topic of dancing in the Dogon religion is discussed in the 28th Day. In the Dogon religion, the primary purpose of the dancing rituals is to guide the souls of the deceased to their ultimate resting place in the family altars and to sanctify their passage to the ranks of the ancestors. This ritual of dancing can be traced back to the first days of the world. The jackal had gone onto the roof of his father’s house, God, believing that he was dead to mourn for him. The jackal, dressed in the fibre’s from his mother’s skirt that were full of do umoisture and words, danced and as he did he spoke the first Word revealed by Nummo to the earth. These actions and the dancing traced out the world and its future. The first dance, of divination and death, was the one to guide the soul to its resting place. The dance of divination told in the dust the secrets of the Word contained in the fibres worn by the dancer. The purpose of the dance of death was to honor the jackal’s father as well as disobey him for having invented dancing, dance, world, word, ritual, religion, order, new, life, jackal, first, dogon, death, dead, universe, traced, resting, ranks, purpose, place, person, passage, out, important, guide, future, end, divination, day, celebrate, because, ancestors, worn, world-order, words