Dogon - Mali

Animal figure for offerings on the Bandiagara Escarpment. Emulating the ancient Tellem, the Dogon continued their rituals, offering at burials small figures covered with millet porridge soup, chicken blood, bat excrement, resins, etc., to appease the spirits of change. The Dogon wish time would stand still. (This author spent two nights in the cave of an Ogon (spiritual director of the Dogon) isolated, not only from the world but from reality itself, coexisting with rats, snakes, and all kinds of insects, in a symbiosis of respect and non-aggression difficult to understand).