Dogon tribe

Don’t you wish you were a little plasticine person who gets to live in this enchanting plasticine village when you look at this picture?

A trail of YouTube clips, starting from Australian whales, brought me eventually to an article on Dogon people in Wikipedia. It is extremely interesting.

A few brief facts:

– Dogon people are The Most Positive Tribe of the planet Earth. They are known among the neighbours as Sewa People (Everything is Fine People)

– Women are economically independent from men (their husbands) and the equivalent of a jewelry box in Dogon is the size of a house.

– Man too have their own space for “boy’s only” time. Very wisely, the roof of the building they use for that is made low, so that to prevent fighting, in case a conversation heats up somewhat (below is an example. Isn’t it a fun place to spend afternoons with the mates?)

– Women have 5 days a month off family duties in their “girls only hut”

–  Makes one cringe a bit – both genders undergo a ritual of circumcision…

– The Dogons are very harmony oriented. In their rituals, the men praise the women, the women praise the man, the young appreciate the old and the old appreciate the young!

– In their myths, for apparently millennia Dogons cary knowledge about Sirius star system, which modern science came upon only within the last few decades.