Nommo he who gives someone something to drink, the guide of the universe!

In the Dogon anthropology, Nommo was one of the original twins that the creator god Amma sacrificed so that he could repair what the other twin, Ogo, had destroyed.

The story goes like this:

Amma created the world from a seed containing the four basic elements of nature Fire, Water, Earth, Air. This seed of the world was changed into an egg containing two pairs of twins, which in the embryonic state had the form of a fish. But one of the first men, Ogo, came out of the egg earlier and turned a part of his placenta into an ark on which he began to wander the universe wanting to become its ruler.

Subsequently, this part of the placenta became Earth, upon which Ogo continued his wanderings in search of his twin sister whom Amma had entrusted to the other pair of twins. Ogo angered by this action of Amma, transformed into a furious fox and caused great destruction on Earth. To repair these disasters Amma sacrificed the Nommo.

Thus it is said that the body of Nommo was dismembered into sixty pieces which, together with the six substances contained in his semen, became the seeds of all plants. From his blood a part was given to the women, to pass it on to their descendants, and the rest became rain to fertilize the Earth. Finally, the first real man was formed from his genitals.

Amma after the sacrifice resurrected the Law and gave him four souls, which he doubled during his anthropogenic work.

The narrative interprets with anthropogenic and cosmogenic representations the confrontation between Good and Evil, considering self-sacrifice as a prerequisite for the establishment of a just order of things.