Farmers around Ngaoundéré talk about the earth people. These people seem to have left many buried artifacts just under the surface of their fields. Pulling up a yam, a farmer may pull up also a brown trinket they believe belonged to the earth people. Whether they deliberately placed these objects in the ground as a remembrance or ritual, or whether the place was once a grave, it’s impossible to say, but we know that the region was named after “Navel Mountain” and it is widely believed that people on the surface ascended from underground races. Finding an artifact from the earth people brings a farmer good crops for a year.
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