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'''Kopé Tiatie Cac'''<ref name="Ndut"/><ref name="Eth"/> (also '''Koh'''<ref name="Dup p 86" /> and '''Koope''';<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Dupire, Marguerite, "Totems sereer et contrôle rituel de l'environnement", p 39 [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/hom_0439-4216_1991_num_31_118_369379]</ref> in Ndut language, meaning ''god grandfather'' or ''god the grandfather'') is the Supreme Creator in the Serer religion.<ref name="Ndut">{{in lang|fr}} Ndiaye, Ousmane Sémou, "Diversité et unicité sérères : l’exemple de la région de Thiès", Éthiopiques, no. 54, vol. 7, 2e semestre 1991 [http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?page=imprimer-article&id_article=1253] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630093306/http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?page=imprimer-article&id_article=1253 |date=2020-06-30 }}</ref><ref name="Eth">{{in lang|fr}} Éthiopiques, "Issues 55-56", Fondation Léopold Sédar Senghor, (1991), p 124</ref> Kopé Tiatie Cac is the name used by the Ndut people to refer to the Supreme being.<ref name="Ndut" /><ref name="Eth" /> Among the Ndut and followers of Serer religion, Kopé Tiatie Cac is associated with death<ref name="Dup p 86" /> and [[Medicine:Plague (disease)|plague]] (''pisti'').<ref>{{in lang|en}} Echenberg, Myron J., "Black death, white medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945", Heinemann (2002), pp 139, 160-161, {{ISBN|0325070172}}</ref>

==Ndut cosmogony==
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The Ndut people who adhere to the tenets of Serer religion refer to the supreme god as Kopé Tiatie Cac in Cangin-Ndut.<ref name="Ndut"/> The name Kopé Tiatie Cac probably derived from the god Koox (var : Kooh). Ndut [[Astronomy:Cosmogony|cosmogony]] posits that, the first humans did not die. The human species were not meant to die following the [[Astronomy:Creation myth|initial creation]].<ref name="Dup p 86"/> The dog was the first to die at that primordial time. Having witnessed the death of the animal, the Ndut people gave the animal a [[Religion:Sacred|sacred]] burial at the foot of a [[Biology:Adansonia digitata|baobab]] tree, and mourned its death. The women crying and wailing in sadness for the departed dog, attracted the attention of Kopé Tiatie Cac (or ''Koh'') God of death. The god angered by the mourning women unleashed death to human kind in the following terms''':'''
{{cquote|What! You make so much noise for a dead dog? Good! You die you too.<ref name="Dup p 86">{{in lang|fr}} Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagesse sereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut", p 86 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fag2wuiV7t8C&q=Sagesse+sereer:essais+sur+la+pense+sereer+ndut]</ref>
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==Worship==
The deity is worshiped through Serer ancestral spirits and saints. Various matrilineages (both on the paternal and maternal line) play a key role in its invocation.<ref name="Dup p 61"/> The name ''koh'' a variant of the god's' name, is the feminine form. The masculine form is ''ala''.<ref name="Dup p 61">{{in lang|fr}} Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagesse sereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut", p 61 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fag2wuiV7t8C&q=Sagesse+sereer:essais+sur+la+pense+sereer+ndut]</ref>

==See also==
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;The people
*'''Serer people'''
**Saafi people
**Palor people
**Ndut people
**Laalaa people
**Serer-Noon
**Niominka people
;Languages
*Cangin languages
**Saafi language
**Palor language
**Ndut language
**Lehar language
**Noon language
*Serer language

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;Serer religious articles
*Serer religion
*Roog (Serer deity)
*Koox
*[[Religion:Serer creation myth|Serer creation myth]]
*Lamane
*States headed by ancient Serer Lamanes
*[[Religion:Saltigue|Saltigue]]
*Ndut initiation rite
*[[History:Timeline of Serer history|Timeline of Serer history]]
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;Related articles
*Faro (mythology)
*[[Astronomy:Nommo|Nommo]]
*Traditional African religion
*List of African deities
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
*Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagesse sereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut", KARTHALA Editions, (1994), pp 61–86, {{ISBN|2865374874}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fag2wuiV7t8C&q=Ndut]
*Ndiaye, Ousmane Sémou, "Diversité et unicité sérères : l’exemple de la région de [[Place:Thiès|Thiès]]", Éthiopiques, no. 54, vol. 7, 2e semestre 1991 [http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?page=imprimer-article&id_article=1253] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630093306/http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?page=imprimer-article&id_article=1253 |date=2020-06-30 }}
*Éthiopiques, "Issues 55-56", Fondation Léopold Sédar Senghor, (1991), p 124
*Echenberg, Myron J., "Black death, white medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945", Heinemann (2002), pp 139, 160-161, {{ISBN|0325070172}}
*Dupire, Marguerite, "Totems sereer et contrôle rituel de l'environnement", p 39 {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/hom_0439-4216_1991_num_31_118_369379]

==Further reading==
*Faye, Louis Diène, "Mort et Naissance le monde Sereer", Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines (1983),  {{ISBN|2-7236-0868-9}}
*Dione, Salif, "L'APPEL du Ndut. ou l'initiation des garcons Seereer", Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, [[Organization:Cheikh Anta Diop University|Cheikh Anta Diop]] (2004)

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