ABSTRACT
Le Renard pale' by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen which was published in 1956, gives a rather different version of the Dogon myth, particularly as regards the creation of the world. To purify the world of the results of the fourth Nommo's rebellion and to be able to return to his creative work, Amma sacrificed the third Nommo, from whom he took back the seats of speech with which he had endowed him. This second creation was carried out in five stages, corresponding to the Dogon week of five days. Amma then returned to his work of creation and, using the substance of the original placenta, he shaped within himself the eight first ancestors of humanity, the sons of the sacrificed Nommo. All this bears witness to the pervasive nature of the Dogon myth and to its decisive influence on traditions and works of art connected with the different crafts and on their place in Dogon society.
