Post by Nubian Zuri* on Apr 22, 2009 15:57:17 GMT -5
Theory suggests, they are one of the tribes of Egypt. The Dogon creation myth
Is similar to the Mayans.
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THE DOGON TRIBE OF WEST AFRICA
The Dogon are a tribe from the Republic of Mali, West Africa, where they settled at Bandiagara Plateau. They are believed to have arrived there sometime between the 13 th and 16 th centuries. The area where they live is desolate, arid and rocky.
These people are generally classed by anthropologists as primitive but are they as primitive as they suggest or not. These people seem to have knowledge of the Solar System and Sirius in particular which may place this tag as irrelevant.
Dogon Creation Myth.
A rough idea of their creation myth is as follows:
The Dogon hold a belief that the Supreme God Amma created Earth and then married her. However the clitoris of Earth rose up against the divine phallus and as a consequence Amma had to cut it from her before he could take possession of his new wife. From this union of Amma and Earth was born Yurugu, who would introduce disorder and chaos. It was after this that Amma re-fertilised Earth by the way of rain and the following result was twins, these were one female and one male who would become the model for all future creations. These twins would be labelled Nommo.
Nommo in respect to their mother Earth then used a fibre skirt with which they covered her nakedness. Seeing this and disliking it Yurugu then commits the first act of incest, which brings about the evil Spirits of the Bush and as a result of Earth now being impure the emergence of menstrual blood. Amma then decides to leave Earth and carry on with the Creation on his own. He firstly creates eight ancestors, four of which are female and four male. These ancestors then give rise to eighty descendants from which the world
Is similar to the Mayans.
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THE DOGON TRIBE OF WEST AFRICA
The Dogon are a tribe from the Republic of Mali, West Africa, where they settled at Bandiagara Plateau. They are believed to have arrived there sometime between the 13 th and 16 th centuries. The area where they live is desolate, arid and rocky.
These people are generally classed by anthropologists as primitive but are they as primitive as they suggest or not. These people seem to have knowledge of the Solar System and Sirius in particular which may place this tag as irrelevant.
Dogon Creation Myth.
A rough idea of their creation myth is as follows:
The Dogon hold a belief that the Supreme God Amma created Earth and then married her. However the clitoris of Earth rose up against the divine phallus and as a consequence Amma had to cut it from her before he could take possession of his new wife. From this union of Amma and Earth was born Yurugu, who would introduce disorder and chaos. It was after this that Amma re-fertilised Earth by the way of rain and the following result was twins, these were one female and one male who would become the model for all future creations. These twins would be labelled Nommo.
Nommo in respect to their mother Earth then used a fibre skirt with which they covered her nakedness. Seeing this and disliking it Yurugu then commits the first act of incest, which brings about the evil Spirits of the Bush and as a result of Earth now being impure the emergence of menstrual blood. Amma then decides to leave Earth and carry on with the Creation on his own. He firstly creates eight ancestors, four of which are female and four male. These ancestors then give rise to eighty descendants from which the world