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Dogon riders (1) - African bronze - beeld van 2 ruiters op paard - Dogon - Mali
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Dogon riders (1) - African bronze - beeld van 2 ruiters op paard - Dogon - Mali

Unique copy by using the lost wax (cire perdue) method. The horse is strongly represented in Dogon mythology and cosmology. The god creator Amma has created a ' living seed ' with 4 elements, it is the foundation of the world. Four pairs of twins, ancestors of men, i.e. the eight Nommo, were then made. After a period of great chaos caused by Ogo, one of the twins, Amma sacrificed the second and then awakened him from death by ​giving him a human shape. The resurrected Nommo went to earth using an arch that metamorphosed into a horse. The horse is associated with the Hogon, a religious leader. The Hogon is represented by a horse on rings, or by wooden figurines of riders, or by bronze, cast according to the cire perdue (lost wax) technique.

No. 28880345

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Dogon riders (1) - African bronze - beeld van 2 ruiters op paard - Dogon - Mali

Dogon riders (1) - African bronze - beeld van 2 ruiters op paard - Dogon - Mali

Unique copy by using the lost wax (cire perdue) method.

The horse is strongly represented in Dogon mythology and cosmology. The god creator Amma has created a ' living seed ' with 4 elements, it is the foundation of the world. Four pairs of twins, ancestors of men, i.e. the eight Nommo, were then made. After a period of great chaos caused by Ogo, one of the twins, Amma sacrificed the second and then awakened him from death by ​giving him a human shape. The resurrected Nommo went to earth using an arch that metamorphosed into a horse.
The horse is associated with the Hogon, a religious leader. The Hogon is represented by a horse on rings, or by wooden figurines of riders, or by bronze, cast according to the cire perdue (lost wax) technique.

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