Editing Dogon People -- Key Persons Directory (section)

==== Ogotemmeli ====
A blind Dogon elder who in October 1946 invited Marcel Griaule to his home and over 33 days of conversations revealed the deep cosmological system of the Dogon. He had been observing Griaule's fieldwork for 15 years before deciding -- apparently on behalf of the Dogon elders -- that Griaule was ready to receive the inner teachings. "Conversations with Ogotemmeli" (1948) is the primary published record of these exchanges. Ogotemmeli is one of the most important single informants in the history of anthropology; the entire Sirius mystery debate flows from what he told Griaule in those 33 days.