nese Dogon (or the Clarias senegalensis, the shadfish, an avatar of the Dogon's Moniteur Faro, whose emblem is the very same as that of ithyphallic Min, the Egyptian Pan) carries in his humeri the first eight grains, and these 8 sorts of grain (stereotypically including beans) play their cosmogonic role from the Dogon to China (cf. for another striking similarity of West Sudan and China, the c