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Circumcision Square in Songho

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Mystical Drawings

In the Dogon plain, Songho is a village where we were shown the square of male circumcision. Every three years the children are taken there, who stay there for 3 months preparing. During this training they paint images of totem poles, masks and other symbols on the wall of this natural shelter. Women and uninitiated children can not look or step inside this place (with the exception of tourists, as a servant ...). Funny how in these drawings they have integrated elements foreign to their culture, like calculators ... Gossips say that Mariscal found his inspiration here for his Cobi among other

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