NJEDDO DEWAL
PEUL INITIATORY TALE Before tackling the tale itself, a few words on the Peul cosmogony: Before the creation of the world, before the beginning of all things, there was nothing, except a Being. This Being was a void without name and without limit, but it was a living void, potentially incubating within itself the sum of all possible existences. Infinite, timeless Time was the home of this Being-One: GUENO, the Eternal, who is, for the Peuls, the supreme creator God….