Religion:Kokh Kox

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Kokh Kox (or Koh,[1] as pronounced in Noon) is the creator god of the Noon people.[2][3][4] The Noon are members of the Serer ethnic group of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. Kokh Kox is one of the main deities in Serer religion.[2][3] The Noon people refer to the supreme being as Kokh Kox rather than Roog, the name the majority of Serers refer to the supreme being in the Serer-Sine language. The name Kokh Kox derives from the deity Koox, the name the Saafi people regularly use to refer to the divine.

Noon Cosmogony

Main page: Religion:Serer creation myth

The Noon cosmogony follows a similar narrative to the Ndut especially in regards to how death began on Earth. In both myths, the dog is believed to have been the first living thing to have died.[4][5][6]

Worship

References

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named geo
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ndiaye, Ousmane Sémou, "Diversité et unicité sérères : l’exemple de la région de Thiès", Éthiopiques, no. 54, vol. 7, 2e semestre 1991 [1] (in French)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Éthiopiques, "Issues 55-56", Fondation Léopold Sédar Senghor, (1991), p 124 (in French)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tastevin, C. (R.P.), "La religion des Nones", Études missionnaires, t. II, no 2, avril-juin : 81-100; t. II, no 3, juillet-sep : 176-187. (1933, 1934) (in French)
  5. ↑ Tastevin, C. (R.P.), "La religion des Nones" in Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagesse sereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut", pp 85-86 [2] (in French)
  6. ↑ "Religion en Afrique, Volumes 15-17", E.J. Brill (1985), pp 203-5 in Tastevin, C. (R.P.), "La religion des Nones" (in French)

Bibliography

  • Tastevin, C. (R.P.), "La religion des Nones", Études missionnaires, t. II, no 2, avril-juin : 81–100; t. II, no 3, juillet-sep : 176–187. (1933, 1934)
  • Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagesse sereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut", KARTHALA Editions, (1994), pp 85–86, ISBN:2865374874 [3]
  • Ndiaye, Ousmane Sémou, "Diversité et unicité sérères : l’exemple de la région de Thiès", Éthiopiques, no. 54, vol. 7, 2e semestre 1991 [4]
  • Éthiopiques, "Issues 55-56", Fondation Léopold Sédar Senghor, (1991), p 124
  • "Religion en Afrique, Volumes 15-17", E.J. Brill (1985), pp 203–5
  • Deffontaines, Pierre, "Géographie et religiones", Edition 10, Gallimard (1948), pp 54–71, 369
  • Société de géographie (France), "La Géographie, Volumes 61-62", Masson et cie., (1934), p 245
  • Faye, Louis Diène, "Mort et Naissance le monde Sereer", Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines (1983), ISBN:2-7236-0868-9



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