#nommo

Some appearances of mystical/mystic-adjacent characters from this week’s Action Comics.

queria que alguém na DC se importasse em expandir a mitologia dos homo magis, a gente vê um cuidado maior com as amazonas mais não temos o mesmo com os magos, poderíamos ter homo magis de diferentes culturas mágicas sendo trabalhados em histórias da zatanna, eles praticamente são os magos originais sendo chamados de povo antigo ou povo ancião e já até governaram a terra antigamente, mais ninguém tenta expandir essa mitologia eu queria ver o reino oculto de sindella como o paraíso pros magos com diferentes culturas mágicas juntas que se isolaram e resolveram fazer a magia e sua cultura mágica florescer juntos.

She is a Homo Magi. In Secret Origins #27, Doctor Mist mentions that Homo Magi can live for up to 4 centuries. Some like Doctor Mist and Madame Xanadu found ways to extend their life span way past that.

Some comics like Catwoman Lonely City have shown Zatanna aging normally; either the writer wasn't aware or she somehow lost her longevity over the years. Anything is possible.

But imagine it's the year 2425 and Zatanna, Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Plastic Man, Madame Xanadu and Phantom Stranger are all hanging out together and sharing old war stories.

Source in question:

Secret Origins Vol 2 #27: (bottom right panel):

Nommo, the first Dogon ancestor. After the creation of the cosmos, the supreme god Amma created the first earthly being, that being was Nommo. Nommo was the culmination of Amma’s creation, holding both sexes, they were the purist form of life. Nommo held complete dominion over water, being intrinsically tied to the life bringing substance. After his creation, Nommo multiplied into four pairs of twins, all also named Nommo. One of each pair of the twins was male, while the other was female, continuing Amma’s divine order of dual sex. However, another child of Amma, the jackal god Ogo, sewed chaos across the world, even turning some of the Nommo to his side, his power threatened to destroy the world. One of the Nommo stepped forward, offering themselves as sacrifice to correct the world’s balance. Amma used this Nommo’s body, flinging their parts across the earth, purifying it from Ogo’s darkness. Where each part landed a shrine was built. However, These events caused the Nommo’s descendants, humanity, to now be imperfect, resulting in less twin births to uphold the dual sex order. The Nommo were described by their descendants, the Dogon, to be amphibious spirits. They were depicted with a human body and legs with a fish tail, other descriptions said they had a human upper body and a snake lower body.

The religious beliefs of the Dogon are enormously complex and knowledge of them varies greatly within Dogon society. Dogon religion is defined primarily through the worship of the ancestors and the spirits whom they encountered as they slowly migrated from their obscure ancestral homelands to the Bandiagara cliffs. They were called the Nommo.

The Nommo are ancestral spirits (sometimes referred to as deities) worshipped by the Dogon people of Mali. The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word meaning "to make one drink." The Nommos are usually described as amphibious, hermaphroditic, fish-like creatures. Folk art depictions of the Nommos show creatures with humanoid upper torsos, legs/feet, and a fish-like lower torso and tail. The Nommos are also referred to as "Masters of the Water", "the Monitors", and "the Teachers". Nommo can be a proper name of an individual, or can refer to the group of spirits as a whole.

Dogon mythology states that Nommo was the first living creature created by the sky god Amma. Shortly after his creation, Nommo underwent a transformation and multiplied into four pairs of twins. One of the twins rebelled against the universal order created by Amma. To restore order to his creation, Amma sacrificed another of the Nommo progeny, whose body was dismembered and scattered throughout the world. This dispersal of body parts is seen by the Dogon as the source for the proliferation of Binu shrines throughout the Dogons' traditional territory; wherever a body part fell, a shrine was erected.

The Nommo allegedly descended from the sky in a vessel accompanied by fire and thunder. After arriving, the Nommos created a reservoir of water and subsequently dove into the water. The Dogon legends state that the Nommos required a watery environment in which to live. According to the myth related to Griaule and Dieterlen: "The Nommo divided his body among men to feed them; that is why it is also said that as the universe "had drunk of his body," the Nommo also made men drink. He gave all his life principles to human beings." The Nommo was crucified on a tree, but was resurrected and returned to his home world. Dogon legend has it that he will return in the future to revisit the Earth in a human form.

The Dogon are famous for their astronomical knowledge taught through oral tradition, dating back thousands of years, referencing the binary star Sirius. In the latter part of the 1940s, French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen - who had been working with the Dogon since 1931 - confirming this theory. Their astronomical information begs the question - How did the Dogon come by this knowledge? Their oral traditions say it was given to them by the Nommo.

As the story goes ... in the late 1930s, four Dogon priests shared their most important secret tradition with two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen after they had spent an apprenticeship of fifteen years living with the tribe. These were secret myths about the star Sirius, which is 8.6 light years from the Earth.

The Dogon priests said that Sirius had a companion star that was invisible to the human eye. They also stated that the star moved in a 50-year elliptical orbit around Sirius, that it was small and incredibly heavy, and that it rotated on its axis.

Initially the anthropologists wrote it off publishing the information in an obscure anthropological journal, because they didn't appreciate the astronomical importance of the information.

What they didn't know was that since 1844, astronomers had suspected that Sirius A had a companion star. This was in part determined when it was observed that the path of the star wobbled.

In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the second star making Sirius a binary star system (two stars).

In the 1920's it was determined that Sirius B, the companion of Sirius, was a white dwarf star. White dwarfs are small, dense stars that burn dimly. The pull of its gravity causes Sirius' wavy movement. Sirius B is smaller than planet Earth.

The Dogon name for Sirius B is Po Tolo. It means star - tolo and smallest seed - po. Seed refers to creation. In this case, perhaps human creation. By this name they describe the star's smallness. It is, they say, the smallest thing there is. They also claim that it is 'the heaviest star' and is white in color. The Dogon thus attribute to Sirius B its three principal properties as a white dwarf: small, heavy, white.