According to Serer oral tradition, it was named after Saalum Suwareh, a marabout of Maad Saloum Mbegan Ndour ( variation: Mbegani Ndour ).

Serer tradition says that the Kingdom of Sine never paid tribute to Ndiadiane Ndiaye nor any his descendants at Jolof.

Serer oral tradition speaks of a Serer king of Jolof, involved in the occult ( just as Soumaoro ), who was later defeated by Tiramakhan Traore ( one of the generals of Sundiata ) after Sundiata sent his men to buy horses in Jolof.

According to Wolof oral tradition, a Serer bowman named Amar Godomat killed him with his bow near lake Rzik ( just north of the Senegal ) ( Godomat's name apparently originates with this death ).

The Wolof, the largest ethnic group in Senegal, have a distinctive musical tradition that, along with the influence of neighboring Fulani, Tukulor, Serer, Jola, and Malinke cultures, has contributed greatly to popular Senegalese music, and to West African music in general.

Wolof music takes its roots from the Serer musical tradition, particularly from the Serer pre-colonial Kingdom of Saloum.

Farwoudiar ( in Serer ) is a women's dance with a distinct tama accompaniment in which women celebrate their prospective husbands ( based on Serer marital tradition ).

French art historian Jean Laude wrote that " In the pre-Islamic period ( before the ninth century ), according to oral tradition, Mauritania was occupied by the Bafur, a population of mixed origin from whom the eastern Songhai, the central Gangara, and the western Serer are derived.

* A variant of the Serer word for king, Maad such as Maad a Sinig and Maad Saloum ( king of Sine and Saloum respectively )

Like the Kingdom of Sine, the population is overrun and ruled by the Serer people.

Unlike the Kingdom of Sine which is ethnically Serer and deeply rooted in " Serer-conservatism ", such as the preservation of Serer religion, culture, traditions, etc., Saloum is more cosmopolitan and multi-religious.

This explains why some Serer traditionalists who adhere to the tenets of Serer religion are reluctant to afford it the same religious status afforded to Sine as one of the sacred Serer holy sites, in spite of housing many of the Serer sites ( see Serer ancient history ).

This Serer matriclan was established in Waalo by Lingeer Ndoye Demba of Sine.

The prince of Sine Tukura Badiar Senghor, from whom Léopold Sédar Senghor has been reported to trace descent from, was a c. 13th century Serer noble.

When these events were reported to the ruler of the Sine, also a great magician, he is reported to have exclaimed " Ndiadiane Ndiaye " in his native Serer language in amazement.

There was the Bour of Waalo, the Damel of Kayor, the Teny ( or Teigne ) of Baol, as well as the two Lamanes of the Serer states of Sine and Saloum.

Historically, it was part of the Serer pre-colonial Kingdom of Sine.

It was a battle of resistance by the Siin-Siin ( Serer people of Sine ) against French colonialism.

** Maad a Sinig, King of Sine, a pre-colonial kingdom of the Serer people.

At the Battle of Logandème ( 18 May 1859 ), Faidherbe launched war against the Serer people of Sine, during the reign of Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof ( King of Sine ).

* Maad a Sinig, a Serer royal title sometimes called Bour Sine

While the origin of the village remains disputed, the establishment of the Serer in the area is assumed to have begun when the advance of the Almoravids in the 11th-century forced them to leave the Sénégal River's valleys, occupying the Petite Côte and the region of the Sine River.

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The Kingdom of Saloum ( Serer language: Saluum or Saalum ) was a Serer / Wolof kingdom in present-day Senegal.

According to Abdou Bouri Ba the Kingdom of Saloum was previously known as Mbey ( in Serer ) and was renamed Saloum by the Maad Saloum Mbegan Ndour in the later part of the 15th century ( c. 1494 ).

Kahone is the royal seat of the Serer Kingdom of Saloum which has ruled there since the 15th century after the Battle of Turubang ( 1335 ) and centuries previous to that.

*** Wagadou ( princesses from the Kingdom of Wagadou, later Ghana Empire married into the Serer nobility ) ( c. 11th century or sooner-1350 )

Founded in the 14th century by the the possibly mythical chief of the Wolof Ndiadiane Ndiaye, who was a Serer of Waalo ( Ndiaye is originally a Serer surname

Serer religion rejects any notion of an incarnation or manifestation of Roog ( the supreme deity in Serer religion ), called Koox among the Cangin.

It has been suggested that the foundations of the empire were set down by the voluntary association of several small states beginning with Waalo in the north and that just prior to the empire's formation, Waalo was divided into villages ruled by separate kings using the Serer title Lamane.

* Coofog ( Thiofoke in French ), north of Saam, which existed before Kaolack as a Serer village ruled by the Gelwaar dynasty.

Bawol ( or Baol ) is an ancient kingdom formerly ruled by the Joof family, one of the members of the Serer ethnic group found in Senegambia.

Examples of Animism can be found in forms of Shinto, Serer, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Pantheism, Paganism, and Neopaganism.

Tamari has described endogamous castes of over fifteen West African peoples, including the Tukulor, Songhay, Dogon, Senufo, Minianka, Moors, Manding, Soninke, Wolof, Serer, Fulani, and Tuareg.

Serer and Wolof alliances were broken.

* Serer religion and creation myth posits the jackal was among the first animals created by the supreme deity of the Serer people-Roog.

Combining these data suggests that Senegal was first populated from the north and east in several waves of migration, the last being that of the Wolof, the Fulani and the Serer.

Africanist historian Donald R. Wright suggests that Senegambian place-names indicate " that the earliest inhabitants might be identified most closely with one of several related groups — Bainunk, Kasanga, Beafada ... To these were added Serer, who moved southward during the first millennium A. D. from the Senegal River valley, and Mande-speaking peoples, who arrived later still from the east.

In Serer religion, tree of life as a religious concept form the basis of Serer cosmogony.

In the competing versions of the Serer creation myth, the Somb ( prosopis africana, a species of prosopis ) and the Saas tree ( acacia albida ) are both viewed as trees of life.

The Somb was also used in the Serer tumuli and burial chambers, many of which had survived for more than a thousand years.

Thus, Somb is not only the Tree of Life in Serer society, but the symbol of immortality.

* July 18 – The Battle of Fandane-Thiouthioune a religious war between the Serer people and the Muslim Marabouts of Senegambia.

However, given the prevailing winds and ocean currents in the region, the islands may well have been visited by Moors or Wolof, Serer, or perhaps Lebou fishermen from the Guinea ( region ) coast.

The Mandinka are the largest ethnic group with 40 % of the population, followed by the Fula, the Wolof, the Jola, the Serahuli and the Serer.

However, the reincarnation ( ciiɗ ) of the ancient Serer saints and ancestral spirits, called Pangool, is a well held principle in Serer religion.

Example cultures or societies include the Cherokee, Choctaw, Gitksan, Haida, Hopi, Iroquois, Lenape, Navajo, and Tlingit of North America ; the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia and Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia ; the Nairs of Kerala and the Bunts of Karnataka in south India ; the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo of Meghalaya in northeast India ; the Mosuo of China ; the Basques of Spain and France ; the Akan including the Ashanti of west Africa ; the Tuaregs of west and north Africa ; and the Serer of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.

Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger – Congo language family.