A Hogon is a spiritual leader in a Dogon village. ==Dogon people== The Dogon are an ethnic group in Mali, with some unusual mythology and cultural practices. Most Dogon villages are situated around the arid Bandiagara Escarpment in central Mali. ==The life of a hogon== A hogon is a religious figure as well as a temporal authority; the hogon may be...
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(from the article `Dogon`) Each large district has a hogon, or spiritual leader, and there is a supreme hogon for the whole country. In his dress and behaviour the hogon ... ...to prophets, sacred kings, and diviners as well as certain priests, who are invested with powers that identify them more fully with the gods. ... [2 related a...
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