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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The monkeys help Bagumawel realize Njeddo Dewal has trapped prince Sakkai in a stone coffin in a pit.

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* Animorphism: After failing to destroy Bagumawel’s uncles with the stone coffins, Njeddo Dewal turns into a magnificent stallion that prince Sakkai just had to have.

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* Animorphism: {{Animorphism}}: After failing to destroy Bagumawel’s uncles with the stone coffins, Njeddo Dewal turns into a magnificent stallion that prince Sakkai just had to have.



* Geas: Tyanaba was forbidden to be approached by a woman with yellow and ochre skin, red eyes, and a flat chest.

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** Mountains are hard because the One-eyed King (the Sun) hardened them under his gaze. In primordial times they were as soft as butter.

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** Gueno removed one of his eyes and it became the One-eyed King (the Sun).
** Mountains are hard because the One-eyed King (the Sun) hardened them under his gaze. In primordial times they were as soft as butter.



* LadyLand: Inverted. In ancient times Njeddo Dewal and her daughters killed a great many women, creating incentive for the surplus men to seek them out.



* ThePowerOfTheSun: Gueno removed one of his eyes and it became the One-eyed King.



* Seers: Wulore and Bawamnde consult the diviner Aga Nouttiouru to understand Wulore's dream.

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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In ancient times Njeddo Dewal and her daughters killed a great many women, creating incentive for the surplus men to seek them out.
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* WickedWitch: Njeddo Dewal was created by Gueno to punish humanity. She was a hideous three-eyed and seven-eared witch of terrible power. When she scratches herself bees come out of her skin, she coughs sparks, her putrid breath dries trees, and her shrieks shatter mountains. After Gueno created her dark hours and disasters fell upon the world. She made heaps of feces in the markets, turned milk into blood, and brought about evils such as divorce, drought, murder, and hate.

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* WickedWitch: Njeddo Dewal was created by Gueno to punish humanity. She was a hideous three-eyed and seven-eared witch of terrible power. When she scratches herself bees come out of her skin, she coughs sparks, her putrid breath dries trees, and her shrieks shatter mountains. After Gueno created her dark hours and disasters fell upon the world. She made heaps of feces in the markets, turned milk into blood, and brought about evils such as divorce, drought, murder, and hate.hate.

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** Prince Sakkai gets this treatment from her too.


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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The monkeys help Bagumawel realize Njeddo Dewal has trapped prince Sakkai in a stone coffin in a pit.


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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Njeddo Dewal absolutely adored Bagumawel in his calf form. She didn’t even get angry when he wandered off. So he took advantage of this to wander a long way away and she sent the children she kidnapped to recover him. Once they were at a safe distance he turned back into a boy and led the children home by a trail of ants.


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* FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider: Hammadi asks the Spider Queen to send for the flies to find Bagumawel.


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* TheGreatFlood: Njeddo Dewal is so anguished by the loss of her calf she transforms into a massive flood, threatening to drown all of Heli and Yoyo.


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* IHaveYourWife: Njeddo Dewal demands the king of Heli and Yoyo give her 20 young men as well as Bagumawel if he ever wanted to see his son again. The king said no but Bagumawel and the young nobles were willing to go anyway.


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* IOweYouMyLife: When Hammadi uncle of Bagumawel asks Koumbasara for help the snake god gladly does so in remembrance of his own rescue from Njeddo Dewal’s prison.


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* KnowsTheRopes: Koumbasara fights Njeddo Dewal with a magic lasso and binds her.


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* LuredIntoATrap: After Bagumawel spares her following the Sakkai episode Njeddo Dewal burrows underground and replaces the ancient jujube tree with a decoy. When mortal children gathered to play on it, she flew off with them.


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** Bagumawel later consults the skull to learn the whereabouts of prince Sakkai who had gone missing.
** Hammadi eldest uncle of Bagumawel asks the skull what to do about the hostage situation involving Sakkai.


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* PantheraAwesome: Koumbasara has a black lion named Goumbaw.


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* VehicularKidnapping: Prince Sakkai was immediately kidnapped by the shapeshifted Njeddo Dewal as soon as he sat on her horse form.


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** Bagumawel turns into the wind and enters the womb of Njeddo Dewal’s favorite white cow. He was born as a magnificent calf.


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* WeaksauceWeakness: Njeddo Dewal is vanquished when Bagumawel throws saltpeter on her water elemental form. It burns, poisons, and kills her.

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* BalefulPolymorph: Sire was a sorcerer imprisoned and transformed into a HumanoidAbomination by Njeddo Dewal in order to keep anyone from discovering the nature of her being. He was somewhere between man, beast, and plant before his rescue by Bawamnde. .

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* Animorphism: After failing to destroy Bagumawel’s uncles with the stone coffins, Njeddo Dewal turns into a magnificent stallion that prince Sakkai just had to have.
* BalefulPolymorph: Sire was a sorcerer imprisoned and transformed into a HumanoidAbomination by Njeddo Dewal in order to keep anyone from discovering the nature of her being. He was somewhere between man, beast, and plant before his rescue by Bawamnde. .
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted in the case of Njeddo Dewal and her entourage of seven beautiful courtesans when they arrived in a city of Heli to seduce Bagumawel’s uncles yet again.



* BuriedAlive: Not quite buried, but Bagumawel’s uncles are trapped inside of seven stone coffins by Njeddo Dewal after she lures then from the safety of Heli and Yoyo.



* ChaseSceneObstacleCourse: Bagumawel conjures a gaping abyss, raging river, gigantic mountain, and burning plain to slow down the pursuit of Njeddo Dewal. This successfully throws her off their trail.



** Njeddo Dewal sleeps near the grave of Kikala the first man and magically realizes Bagumawel was born to destroy her.



* EnfantTerrible: Bagumawel speaks before he is even born, shocking his mother Wamnde and everyone else. He declares he will save his uncles from Njeddo Dewal and names himself.



* FamilialCannibalismSurprise: Njeddo Dewal’s daughters applied suction cups to Bagumawel’s brothers each night they spent together in preparation of feeding, but were thwarted by him staying awake to distract them each time. On the seventh night the brothers put the suction cups on the demonesses and swapped clothing with them. Njeddo Dewal was extremely hungry and feasted upon them before decapitating them. The next morning she woke up and realized she drained her own daughters.



* GlowingEyes: Koubbu’s eyes glow when he frees Koumbasara from his prison.



* HoneyTrap: Twice. Njeddo Dewal uses her daughters the first time and courtesans the second time.



* HostileTerraforming: Njeddo Dewal turns Weli Weli into a ruinous hellscape while trying to catch Bagumawel and his brothers fleeing her.
* HotWitch: Njeddo Dewal after asking Gueno to make her beautiful.



* KidHero: Bagumawel was a newborn who looked seven. He was sent by Gueno to defeat Njeddo Dewal.



* Mordor: Weli Weli is the invisible city of Njeddo Dewal.

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* OracularHead: Bawamnde carries around the skull of his grandfather which gives him advise on his adventures.

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* OracularHead: Bawamnde carries around the skull of his grandfather which gives him advise advice on his adventures.adventures.
** The skull is used by Bagumawel to locate his kidnapped uncles and learn how to destroy the stone coffins.


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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Njeddo Dewal causes natural disasters and demolishes the island of the Scorpion Queen in frustration with Bawamnde’s escape.
* PlayingWithFire: Njeddo Dewal tried to kill Bawamnde, Sire, and Koubbou who were trying to escape through a secret mountain cavern by sending flames against them.


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* PrivacyByDistraction: In the lair of Njeddo Dewal Bagumawel prevents her from feeding on his brothers in the night by asking her to do absurd things like make him a cup of water but using a net to collect the water. This goes on for six days before she becomes frustrated.


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* ScaledUp: Inverted, Koumbasara is a benevolent deity that is restored to his glorious snake form after resting in liquid for the night once freed.
* ScarabPower: The Dung Beetles help roll Njeddo Dewal’s metal gourd underground from its chamber to the island of the Scorpion Queen.
* SealedGoodInACan: Koumbasara was trapped inside a black cat-skin bag inside of a metal gourd by Njeddo Dewal.


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* SelfAppliedNickname: Bagumawel nicknames himself “Gael Walo” or the Young Bull of Walo.


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* SwallowedWhole: Bawamnde and his companions were saved from Njeddo Dewal’s fire powers by hiding inside a giant gecko, who brings them through the tunnels in the mountain.
** They later get swallowed up and excreted by a Palm Tree, finding themselves underground.
* TagalongKid: Subverted. Bagumawel despite looking seven years old is the hero who protects his hapless seven uncles. Despite them mistaking him for a petty Suudibe at first and this trope later. He feeds them and defends them from dangers like killer bees until they agree to let him join their quest.


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* TunnelKing: The Aardvark tunnels for Bawamnde and his friends to find Njeddo Dewal’s hiding chamber for her metal gourd.
* TurtlePower: Bawamnde, Koubbu, and Sire ride a giant turtle across the sea to the island of the Scorpion Queen who puts them under her protection.


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* VirtuousBees: Bagumawel finds a bee among his ancestor’s magic items and it leads him to his trapped uncles. The swarm of bees gather food for them on the journey back.


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** Koumbasara transforms into an eagle to bring Bawamnde and his friends back to their home village of Hayyo.
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* LockedInThDungeon: Sire was chained up within a termite hill within a secret chamber in Weli Weli. Fortunately Bawamnde was able to release him by touching the belly of the termite queen.

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* LockedInThDungeon: Sire was chained up within a termite hill within a secret chamber in Weli Weli. Fortunately Bawamnde was able to release him by touching the belly of the termite queen.
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* AndroclesLion: Bawamnde aids grasshoppers, turtles, dogs, toads, a porcupine, a hippo, and spiders. During his journey to Weli Weli the animals repay his kindnesses by gifting him seven magic charms.


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* BalefulPolymorph: Sire was a sorcerer imprisoned and transformed into a HumanoidAbomination by Njeddo Dewal in order to keep anyone from discovering the nature of her being. He was somewhere between man, beast, and plant before his rescue by Bawamnde. .
* TheBlacksmith: Bawamnde encounters a blacksmith donkey in Weli Weli. He farts a lot and sends Bawamnde with his sheep Koubbu onto a very hot bed of peppers.


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* FunnyAnimals: Weli Weli was only inhabited by animals that lived much like humans. Considering the only humans who made it to Weli Weli were prey for its queen and her daughters, this is jusified.


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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Bawamnde rode a flying python.
** Sire rode the one-eyed deaf-mute sheep Koubbu.
** Njeddo Dewal flew on an eagle.


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* OldSchoolDogfight: Njeddo Dewal's eagle destroys Bawamnde's python this way.Forcing him to ride on Koubbu the sheep for much of the escape from Weli Weli.
* OracularHead: Bawamnde carries around the skull of his grandfather which gives him advise on his adventures.


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* ProtectiveCharm: Bawamnde used his seven charms to overcome a thunderstorm, quicksand desert, raging river, and passage through a mountain.


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* Seers: Wulore and Bawamnde consult the diviner Aga Nouttiouru to understand Wulore's dream.
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* LadyLand: Subverted. In ancient times

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* TheAgeless: The black scorpions were older than the mountains, elephants, vultures, baobobs, and even Kikala the first man.



* BloodMagic: The sage Bawamnde rescued the gods Demba Nyassorou and Koumbasara from Njeddo Dewal by sacrificing a sheep in the heart of Weli Weli.



* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Welore the wife of Bawamnde has a dream about giving birth to seven sons and a daughter. The daughter will bear a son who will vanquish Njeddo Dewal.In order to accomplish this, Bawande had to sacrifice a one-eyed deaf-mute sheep in Weli Weli.



* FoodChainOfEvil: Dandi attacked Tooke who proceeded to kill him in self defense. A group of toads saw Tooke and ate him. Then a group of snakes saw the toads and ate them. Then a group of scorpions saw the snakes and ate them.
* ExtraEyes: Njeddo Dewal had three eyes.



* GardenOfEden: In ancient times there was a magnificent flood zone called Walo more fertile than any other. In Walo there was a paradise called Heli and Yoyo (Muslim Fulani identify it with Eden). There was no poverty, no disease, and no want. Death was rare and when it did occur the person was totally content with moving on. Even elders were as lively and hardy as young people. Cattle all had perfect health. Wild beasts were as gentle as domesticated ones. When the moon waned the stars shined as bright as a full moon. The mists produced by the rivers revitalized anyone who stood in them. Heli and Yoyo was fed by seven great rivers from seven great mountains. All fruits were edible, delicious, and had healing properties. According to Muslims, Heli and Yoyo was designed by king Solomon himself using the labor of Djinns for his consort Bilqis who was an ancestor of the Fulani. It was a country beloved by Gueno. Unfortunately, being so spoiled made man arrogant and decadent.



** The king of Heli brought 22 Silatigis and 56 wise shepherds to Yoyo in order to divine the cause of the disasters brought about by Njeddo Dewal. They used geomancy to predict the rising of an evil star in the north and widespread sin among man.



* GodOfEvil: Njeddo-Dewal is the goddess of evil and mistress of calamity.

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* GodOfEvil: Njeddo-Dewal Inna Baasi is the seventeenth maiden, goddess of evil evil, and mistress mother of calamity.calamity. She was created to punish mankind for our excessive pride.



* LadyLand: Subverted. In ancient times



* LifeDrinker: Njeddo Dewal steals the life force of men through her seven daughters.
* TheLostWoods: Toggal Balewal was the domain of Njeddo Dewal and Dandi after their marriage.



* Mordor: Weli Weli is the invisible city of Njeddo Dewal.



* RageBreakingPoint: Gueno couldn't take the hubris of the Fulani anymore when they started bathing in milk instead of water.



* RitualMagic: Gueno assembled a black cat so dark it could blacken coal and the night, a smelly black goat, and a black bird. He then vaporized them with a green laser and mixed their ashes with water. He poured the concoction into a tortoise shell and made it into an egg which he hatched under an ancient crocodile. Njeddo Dewal was hatched from this spell.



* TykeBomb: Njeddo Dewal spent her childhood learning the seven magical sounds, spells to control the dark elemental spirits, and the six points of space. She was raised entirely among the forces of darkness.



* UnholyMatrimony: Njeddo Dewal was the goddess of evil and married Dandi whose very name means pepper. Dandi was the son of Sitti (Saltpeter). Their daughters were very evil as well.
* TheVamp: The beautiful daughters of Njeddo Dewal and her mate Dandi use their feminine wiles to lure men into Weli Weli and their doom.
* VampiricDraining: Njeddo Dewal and her seven daughters feed on the blood and vitality of men to make their mother stronger so she may spread greater destruction.



* WarGod: As god of smithing and thus weapons, Nounfayiri is also the war deity of the pantheon.

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* WarGod: As god of smithing and thus weapons, Nounfayiri is also the war deity of the pantheon.pantheon.
* WickedWitch: Njeddo Dewal was created by Gueno to punish humanity. She was a hideous three-eyed and seven-eared witch of terrible power. When she scratches herself bees come out of her skin, she coughs sparks, her putrid breath dries trees, and her shrieks shatter mountains. After Gueno created her dark hours and disasters fell upon the world. She made heaps of feces in the markets, turned milk into blood, and brought about evils such as divorce, drought, murder, and hate.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Kaidara has twelve arms and thirty feet. The twelve arms represent the twelve months and by extension the first twelve Later ju while the thirty feet represent a month.

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** OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted in the case of the Yaamana-Juuju. Also known as Bagumaawel, they are servants of the god Kaidara. Resembling little old men with long beards, they stand about two elbow-lengths high. They wield enormous magical powers and are fond of shapeshifting.

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** Mountains are hard because the One-eyed King (the Sun) hardened them under his gaze.

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* LandOfFaerie: The Shadow Country is home of the Suudiibe or “hidden ones”.


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* CoolChair: Kaidara sits on a rotating throne with four feet. The design reflects time and space.

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* CoolChair: Kaidara sits on a rotating throne with four feet. The design reflects time and space. The four feet represent the elements and the four cataclysms which will end the world.



** Koumen, Kaidara, the One-eyed King, Njeddo-Dewal, Ham, Dem, Tyanaba, and other major deities are emanations from Gueno himself.
** The Suudiibe are the myriad nature spirits that haunt the the worlds for good and ill.
** The 28 Lareeji are lesser in power but very important for the Fulani as they control the well being of herders and everything that concerns their lifestyle.



* EldritchLocation: When the world was young, the mountains were soft like butter.



* GodOfEvil: Njeddo-Dewal is the goddess of evil and mistress of calamity.



* LandOfFaerie: The Shadow Country is home of the Suudibe or “hidden ones”.
** Mountains are hard because the One-eyed King (the Sun) hardened them under his gaze.
** Spirits sent by Gueno carved out the waterways of the world. Some of them were placed under the power of stronger spirits and made to fill them with heavy loads of water. They revolted against their masters and were turned into clouds as punishment, damned to wander the skies for eternity. The water carriers break their jugs occasionally for relief from the weight and give lifegiving rains to the earth. Whenever they do this their jailers whip them mercilessly and that is the sound of thunder.



* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Kaidara has twelve arms and thirty feet.
* MultipleHeadCase: Kaidara has seven heads.

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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Kaidara has twelve arms and thirty feet. The twelve arms represent the twelve months and by extension the first twelve Later ju while the thirty feet represent a month.
* MultipleHeadCase: Kaidara has seven heads. They represent the seven days of the week, the seven stars of the big and little dippers, as well as the seven openings of the head.



** OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted in the case of the Yaamana-Juuju. Also known as Bagumaawel, they are servants of the god Kaidara. Resembling little old men with long beards, they stand about two elbow-lengths high. They wield enormous magical powers and are fond of shapeshifting.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Gueno removed one of his eyes and it became the One-eyed King.



* UltimateBlacksmith: Nounfayiri or Ndomayiri as the Mande call him is the divine smith.

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* TheUnderworld: The land of the dead is AlwaysNight and all souls come there eventually: man, plant, and animal. The souls of the unborn also reside here, so it is forbidden to damage any beings lest it cause a miscarriage in the land of the living or “the World of Light”.
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* AllThatGlitters: Kaidara’s gifts of gold are meant to teach the initiate that material wealth is worthless compared to spiritual understanding.


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* CoolChair: Kaidara sits on a rotating throne with four feet. The design reflects time and space.


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* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Kaidara is the god of Gold and it’s association with wisdom.


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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Kaidara has twelve arms and thirty feet.
* MultipleHeadCase: Kaidara has seven heads.
* OldBeggarTest: Kaidara is fond of this trope. He wanders the world dressed as a ragged old man to avoid greedy gold-hungry people and meet those who truly stand for wisdom.
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* SeaSerpents: Tyanaba was associated with rivers and from from the Atlantic Ocean where he swam up the Senegal river. He traveled the Niger not long after.

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* AlienSky: There are seven suns, each corresponding to the colors of the rainbow and differing levels of "clearings" on the journey to initiation.


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* AngryGuardDog: There is a dog in the sixth clearing who acts as ThresholdGuardians. After Koumen assuages Sile Sadio's fear of the fearsome creatures in this realm he realizes the value of the dog in driving off the wicked and dangerous beasts.
* AnimalStampede: Sile Sadio almost gives in to fear in the sixth clearing where a host of bizarre creatures fall upon him until Koumen recites a spell of protection.


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* FantasticFlora: In the sixth clearing there are trees which turn blood into milk.


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* GardenGarment: Foroforondu covers her privates with leaves.


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* GodivaHair: In the twelfth clearing Foroforondu undoes her braids and covers her self up with her hair.


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* IKnowYourTrueName: Sile Sadio seeks out the true name of the cow and implores Foroforondu to teach it to him.


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* MagicalEye: Nounfayiri has one eye which offers internal and external knowlegde.


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* PowerUpFood: Sile Sadio drinks the milk of Ndurbeele and achieves ultimate understanding of the universe. It is then that he has communion with Gueno.
* RiteOfPassage: After leaving the twelfth and final clearing Sile Sadio returns to where he first met Koumen to battle a lion with his staff. A student was not a Silatigi until he had killed a lion and drank its blood to absorb its characteristics.


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** The jujube represents not only the symbol of a good host and Foroforondu accepting Sile Sadio as a guest, but also the summit of human knowledge. Making him worthy to ride Ndurbeele and move on to divine knowledge.


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** Sile Sadio refuses to obey the instruction of Foroforondu and passes her test. A Fulani man does not do as women tell him. For this reason Foroforondu and Koumen commend him and offer jujubes.


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* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: Koumen instructs Sile Sadio to keep his eyes closed when crossing between the fifth and sixth clearings else his soul wanders off.
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* JusticeWillPrevail: Foroforondu is the goddess of justice who punishes sorcerers and evildoers in general. She can see through all of their machinations.

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* CallToAdventure: Sile Sadio was searching for a lost cow when he heard the voice of Koumen.
* CarryABigStick: Koumen wields a club for those with dense minds and hard hearts.



** Soule Sadio was the first initiate and is often identified with King Solomon by Muslim Fulani.

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** The relationship between the sacred star and the Ostrich egg is related to a similar myth from Myth/SererMythology.



* DisabledDeity: Nounfayiri is one eyed.
* EarthMother: Foroforondu is the “Queen of milk and butter” and as such fertility goddess.



* GeometricMagic: Koumen uses the Ostrich egg to cast spells. The Ostrich having protected its eggs using the six pointed star.
* GodCouple: Koumen and his wife Foroforondu.



* HealingSpring: In Koumen’s domain there is a pool hidden by thick vines. Whoever washes their face in the water gains the ability see the future.



* OlderThanHeLooks: Interesting case with Koumen. He is an immortal deity probably older than the world and yet looks like a little boy. A little boy with the gray beard of an old man.

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* MagicMusic: Tyanaba plays a seven holed flute in an attempt to extinguish the fire before the first clearing.
* OlderThanHeLooks: Interesting case with Koumen. He is an immortal deity probably older than the world and yet looks like a little boy. A little boy with the gray beard of an old man. So much so that Sile Sadio mistakes him for a lost child.
* OldSchoolChivalry: Sile Sadio would not fight save to protect cattle, women, and orphans. Per the code of Pulaaku.



** Prior to entering the first clearing Sile Sadio sees an urn (symbolizing earth) full of water with a fire above it as Tyanaba plays his magic flute (producing wind). But in spite of this the fire will not die. This is a reconciliation of the four elements and confirmation of Sile Sadio’s worthiness to proceed.
** Black is the color of the occult which is why Koumen is black in his domain and leads a herd of black cattle.
** In Koumen’s land there is a pond and a water hole. People usually look into water holes to see themselves and bathe in ponds (which are bigger). But the truly wise bathe in the water hole and see themselves in the pond. This is a metaphor for seeing the forest for the trees, or understanding the role man has in the wider cosmos.



* SecretTestOfCharacter: Koumen offers Sile Sadio many wonders through his magic, but Sile Sadio only wants wisdom. For this reason Koumen deems him worthy.



* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Koumen is able to transform into whatever shape pleases him. He is black when dealing with minerals, he is white when caring for wild game, and he is red when acting on Tyanaba’s orders to care for livestock.

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** One of Koumen’s talents.
* TalkingToPlants: Koumen is capable of this.
* ThresholdGuardians: Koumen must test Sile Sadio’s sincere desire for wisdom before he can proceed.
** Tyanaba is the first sentry of knowledge Sile Sadio meets. He guards the wisdom from the unworthy. When Sile Sadio’s overcomes fear of the unknown, the journey is in motion.
** The Frog tries to distract Sile Sadio from his mission by telling him to take mud from the sacred pond instead of using the water.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Nounfayiri or Ndomayiri as the Mande call him is the divine smith.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Koumen is able to transform into whatever shape pleases him. He is black when dealing with minerals, he is white when caring for wild game, and he is red when acting on Tyanaba’s orders to care for livestock.livestock.
* WarGod: As god of smithing and thus weapons, Nounfayiri is also the war deity of the pantheon.

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The history of the Fulani has been one of near constant migrations since around the 14th century AD or the height of the Mali empire, which have given them a range from their homeland of Futa Toro across the Sahel to the modern state of Sudan. Cattle are life to the Fulani, and they are very rarely eaten. The Fulani had both symbiotic and antagonistic relationships with the settled peoples wherever they went. Furious raids before melting back into the grasslands made them feared warriors throughout the region as much as the desert Tuaregs from the north. However they were often the only source of dairy products for settled communities as well. Fulani society is divided into four main castes whose names are different from group to group: Nobles, merchants, artisans, and slaves.

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The history of the Fulani has been one of near constant migrations since around the 14th century AD or the height of the Mali empire, which have given them a range from their homeland of Futa Toro across the Sahel to the modern state of Sudan. Cattle are life to the Fulani, and they are very rarely (usually never) eaten. The Fulani had both symbiotic and antagonistic relationships with the settled peoples wherever they went. Furious raids before melting back into the grasslands made them feared warriors throughout the region as much as the desert Tuaregs from the north. However they were often the only source of dairy products for settled communities as well. Fulani society is divided into four main castes whose names are different from group to group: Nobles, merchants, artisans, and slaves.



Like in many Sub-Saharan African beliefs, there is only one supreme God: Gueno or “the eternal one”. He is also called Doondari or “the fearless one” which is a Fulani expression for omnipotence. Gueno does not manifest himself physically although he does interact with the world through the great snake Tyanaba or Caanaba.

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Like in many Sub-Saharan African beliefs, there is only one supreme God: Gueno or “the eternal one”. He is also called Doondari or “the fearless one” which is a Fulani expression for omnipotence. Gueno does not manifest himself physically although he does interact with the world through the great snake Tyanaba or Caanaba. The Lareeji are the pantheon of the Fulani of which 28 deities exist.



* DivineRanks: Koumen is subordinate to Tyanaba who is subordinate to the almighty Gueno.
* TheFairFolk: Tongo and Rongo are malevolent little bush spirits who hurt cattle and shepherds. Koumen is their top enemy.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Koumen is the custodian of both nature and livestock.



* MagicKiss: A initiate would suck the tongue of the master in order to absorb his knowledge. Koumen would impress this on his chosen initiates.
* OlderThanHeLooks: Interesting case with Koumen. He is an immortal deity probably older than the world and yet looks like a little boy. A little boy with the gray beard of an old man.



* SeaSerpents: Tyanaba was associated with rivers and from from the Atlantic Ocean where he swam up the Senegal river. He traveled the Niger not long after.

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** The drop of milk Gueno made was composed of the four elements, four directions, and Ndurbeele: the hermaphrodite cow who represents creation and is the parent of the 22 original cows owned by Tyanaba.
** The 28 Lareeji correspond to the 28 days of the Lunar month.
** The first 12 Lareeji correspond to the 12 months of the Solar year.
** Because the drop of milk engendered the four elements and Ndurbeele and the rest of the universe, mankind is a sort of microcosm of all these things. We are element, star, clan, and cow. White, black, red, and yellow men correspond to the four directions and their associated color. As the initiate crosses between the 12 “clearings” he encounters the overlapping forces that brought him here.
* SeaSerpents: Tyanaba was associated with rivers and from from the Atlantic Ocean where he swam up the Senegal river. He traveled the Niger not long after.after.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: This happens after an initiate sucks the tongue of the master.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Koumen is able to transform into whatever shape pleases him. He is black when dealing with minerals, he is white when caring for wild game, and he is red when acting on Tyanaba’s orders to care for livestock.
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!!Fulani Mythology provides examples of the following tropes:tropes:
* AdoptivePeerParent: In versions where Ilo’s mother dies young and he is left to care for Tyanaba.
* AllYourColorsCombined: Tyanaba has 96 scales for every sacred color combination of cattle hide.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: The old woman who goads Ilo’s wife into seeing Tyanaba is a Fulani variant of or influenced by the Myth/MandeMythology Muso Koroni.
** Ga who is the “mother of life” water goddess that lives in Lake Debo is the Fulani Faro.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted with prejudice. Ilo was a normal Fulani boy. His twin Tyanaba was born from an egg. And was a magic snake. And a god.
* CrossoverCosmology: Tyanaba was recognized as the Myth/MandeMythology Ninkinanka.
** Ndomayiri is part of this mythology as well.
** Soule Sadio was the first initiate and is often identified with King Solomon by Muslim Fulani.
* Geas: Tyanaba was forbidden to be approached by a woman with yellow and ochre skin, red eyes, and a flat chest.
* HappilyAdopted: In versions where Tyanaba wanders until he meets Ilo’s mother.
* JustSoStory: Ilo’s wife was concerned about the mystery person he visited each day with milk that she peeked over the wall of Tyanaba’s compound to see him at the urging of her old hairdresser. As soon as eye contact was made Tyanaba grew to enormous size and left the ruined compound for the Niger River. Ilo tried to catch up for days until Tyanaba had pity and told him about his prohibition. Tyanaba could not reside with him anymore, but he did summon numerous cattle from the river and told Ilo he could have as many as he could touch with his walking stick. So Ilo frantically tapped cattle in the darkness as the herd followed Tyanaba into the depths of Lake Debo. This made Ilo the first shepherd, and is the reason the Fulani use their trademark “Nelbi” walking sticks.
* RuleOfDrama: Ilo son of Yaladi of course falls in love with exactly the type of woman his brother Tyanaba is forbidden to be approached by.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Tyanaba figures in the initiation as a symbol of the metamorphosis a man must go through. Like Tyanaba he must shed his skin to begin anew.
* SeaSerpents: Tyanaba was associated with rivers and from from the Atlantic Ocean where he swam up the Senegal river. He traveled the Niger not long after.
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The Fulani (or as they are called by Wolof and French speakers, Peul) are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. Alongside the Mande speakers and the Tuaregs they have been one of the most widely influential groups of people in the Western Sudan. Most research indicates that they have their origin from a synthesis of possibly Afro-Asiatic speaking caucasian pastoralists and Niger-Congo speaking black African farmers. Closely related in language and ethnicity to the Toucouleur of Futa Toro in Senegal, they both belong to the wider Atlantic language family alongside the Wolof and Serer.

The history of the Fulani has been one of near constant migrations since around the 14th century AD or the height of the Mali empire, which have given them a range from their homeland of Futa Toro across the Sahel to the modern state of Sudan. Cattle are life to the Fulani, and they are very rarely eaten. The Fulani had both symbiotic and antagonistic relationships with the settled peoples wherever they went. Furious raids before melting back into the grasslands made them feared warriors throughout the region as much as the desert Tuaregs from the north. However they were often the only source of dairy products for settled communities as well. Fulani society is divided into four main castes whose names are different from group to group: Nobles, merchants, artisans, and slaves.

Alienated by the power of pagan or half-pagan Mande, Songhai, Kanuri, and Hausa kings the highly mobile Fulani would convert to Islam en masse under the rallying cry of charismatic fundamentalist leaders such as Usman Dan Fodio or Al Hajji Umar Tall throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. They sought to restore pure Islam and emancipate the dispersed Fulani from the rule of whichever local sovereign they lived under. Powerful states with Fulani rulers arose such as Futa Toro, Futa Jallon, Massina, and the Sokoto Caliphate. The wars between the Fulani and the pagan powers contributed to the stream of slaves for the Americas as well as North Africa.

In spite of all this, the traditional beliefs of the Fulani have not been entirely stomped out despite the best efforts of extremists. What is fortunate about many Sahelian traditional religions is their esoteric nature: only initiates may access the true knowledge of the universe. Like the initiation of the Mande peoples, Fulani initiation is a lifelong process through three main sequences: 21 years of apprenticeship, 21 years of practice, and 21 years of teaching. When a man was fully initiated he was a “Silatigi” or one who knows of the mysterious. The Silatigi was a priest, diviner, herbalist, and teacher among other things.

Like in many Sub-Saharan African beliefs, there is only one supreme God: Gueno or “the eternal one”. He is also called Doondari or “the fearless one” which is a Fulani expression for omnipotence. Gueno does not manifest himself physically although he does interact with the world through the great snake Tyanaba or Caanaba.

!!Fulani Mythology provides examples of the following tropes:

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->''"At the beginning there was a huge drop of milk. Then Doondari came and he created the stone. Then the stone created iron;And iron created fire; And fire created water; And water created air. Then Doondari descended a second time. And he took the five elements. And he shaped them into man. But man was proud. Then Doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man. But when blindness became too proud,
Doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness; But when sleep became too proud, Doondari created worry, and worry defeated sleep; But when worry became too proud, Doondari created death, and death defeated worry. But when death became too proud, Doondari descended for the third time, And he came as Gueno, the eternal one, And Gueno defeated death."''

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->''"At the beginning there was a huge drop of milk. Then Doondari came and he created the stone. Then the stone created iron;And iron; And iron created fire; And fire created water; And water created air. Then Doondari descended a second time. And he took the five elements. And he shaped them into man. But man was proud. Then Doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man. But when blindness became too proud,
proud, Doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness; But when sleep became too proud, Doondari created worry, and worry defeated sleep; But when worry became too proud, Doondari created death, and death defeated worry. But when death became too proud, Doondari descended for the third time, And he came as Gueno, the eternal one, And Gueno defeated death."''
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Doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness; But when sleep became too proud, Doondari created worry, and worry defeated sleep;
But when worry became too proud,
Doondari created death, and death defeated worry. But when death became too proud, Doondari descended for the third time, And he came as Gueno, the eternal one, And Gueno defeated death."''

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Doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness; But when sleep became too proud, Doondari created worry, and worry defeated sleep;
sleep; But when worry became too proud,
proud, Doondari created death, and death defeated worry. But when death became too proud, Doondari descended for the third time, And he came as Gueno, the eternal one, And Gueno defeated death."''

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->''"At the beginning there was a huge drop of milk. Then Doondari came and he created the stone. Then the stone created iron;And iron created fire; And fire created water; And water created air. Then Doondari descended a second time. And he took the five elements
And he shaped them into man. But man was proud. Then Doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man. But when blindness became too proud,

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->''"At the beginning there was a huge drop of milk. Then Doondari came and he created the stone. Then the stone created iron;And iron created fire; And fire created water; And water created air. Then Doondari descended a second time. And he took the five elements
elements. And he shaped them into man. But man was proud. Then Doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man. But when blindness became too proud,

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->''"At the beginning there was a huge drop of milk
Then Doondari came and he created the stone.
Then the stone created iron;
And iron created fire;
And fire created water;
And water created air.
Then Doondari descended a second time. And he took the five elements
And he shaped them into man.
But man was proud.
Then Doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man.
But when blindness became too proud,
Doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness;
But when sleep became too proud,
Doondari created worry, and worry defeated sleep;

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->''"At the beginning there was a huge drop of milk
milk. Then Doondari came and he created the stone.
stone. Then the stone created iron;
And
iron;And iron created fire;
fire; And fire created water;
water; And water created air.
air. Then Doondari descended a second time. And he took the five elements
And he shaped them into man.
man. But man was proud.
proud. Then Doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man.
man. But when blindness became too proud,
Doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness;
blindness; But when sleep became too proud,
proud, Doondari created worry, and worry defeated sleep;



Doondari created death, and death defeated worry.
But when death became too proud,
Doondari descended for the third time,
And he came as Gueno, the eternal one
And Gueno defeated death."''

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Doondari created death, and death defeated worry.
worry. But when death became too proud,
proud, Doondari descended for the third time,
time, And he came as Gueno, the eternal one
one, And Gueno defeated death."''
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->''"At the beginning there was a huge drop of milk
Then Doondari came and he created the stone.
Then the stone created iron;
And iron created fire;
And fire created water;
And water created air.
Then Doondari descended a second time. And he took the five elements
And he shaped them into man.
But man was proud.
Then Doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man.
But when blindness became too proud,
Doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness;
But when sleep became too proud,
Doondari created worry, and worry defeated sleep;
But when worry became too proud,
Doondari created death, and death defeated worry.
But when death became too proud,
Doondari descended for the third time,
And he came as Gueno, the eternal one
And Gueno defeated death."''
-->-- '''Fulani Creation Myth'''

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