Hidden Knowledge : The Dogon tribe of Mali
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Laird Scranton explores the hidden knowledge of one of the world?'s most mysterious people, the Dogon tribe of Mali in Africa. He has discovered that not only are many Dogon words strikingly similar to ancient Egyptian words, their rituals are similar to those both of ancient Egypt and modern Judaism. Then Linda Moulton Howe reports on what has been found so far by Projects Stardust and Deep Impact. The Dogon talk about Nommo - amphibian deities that arrived from the sky in their fantastic sky ship. They preached to the people who assembled in large numbers around the lake that was created around the ship. Certain researchers investigating the Dogon have reported that they seem to possess advanced astronomical knowledge, the nature and source of which have subsequently become embroiled in controversy. From 1931 to 1956 the French anthropologist Marcel Griaule studied the Dogon. This included field missions ranging from several days to two months in 1931, 1935, 1937 and 1938 and then annually from 1946 until 1956. In late 1946 Griaule spent a consecutive thirty-three days in conversations with the Dogon wiseman Ogotemmêli, the source of much of Griaule and Dieterlen's future publications. They reported that the Dogon believe that the brightest star in the sky, Sirius (sigi tolo or 'star of the Sigui'), has two companion stars, pō tolo (the Digitaria star), and ęmmę ya tolo, (the female Sorghum star), respectively the first and second companions of Sirius A. Sirius, in the Dogon system, formed one of the foci for the orbit of a tiny star, the companionate Digitaria star. When Digitaria is closest to Sirius, that star brightens: when it is farthest from Sirius, it gives off a twinkling effect that suggests to the observer several stars. The orbit cycle takes 50 years. They also claimed that the Dogon appeared to know of the rings of Saturn, and the moons of Jupiter. In 1976 Robert K. G. Temple wrote a book called The Sirius Mystery arguing that the Dogon's system reveals precise knowledge of cosmological facts only known by the development of modern astronomy, since they appear to know, from Griaule and Dieterlen's account, that Sirius is part of a binary star system, whose second star, Sirius B, a white dwarf, is however completely invisible to the human eye (just as Digitaria has the smallest grain known to the Dogon) and that it takes 50 years to complete its orbit. The existence of Sirius B had only been inferred to exist through mathematical calculations undertaken by Friedrich Bessel in 1844. Temple then argued that the Dogon's information, if traced back to ancient Egyptian sources and myth, indicates an extraterrestrial transmission of knowledge of the stars. Neither Griaule nor Dieterlen had ever made such bold claims about a putative esoteric source for the Dogon's knowledge. In his book Sirius Matters, Noah Brosch postulates that the Dogon may have had contact with astronomers based in Dogon territory during a five week expedition, led by Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, to study the solar eclipse of April 16, 1893. Robert Todd Carroll also states that a more likely source of the knowledge of the Sirius star system is from contemporary, terrestrial sources who provided information to interested members of the tribes. James Oberg however, citing these suspicions notes their completely speculative nature, writing that: "The obviously advanced astronomical knowledge must have come from somewhere, but is it an ancient bequest or a modern graft? Although Temple fails to prove its antiquity, the evidence for the recent acquisition of the information is still entirely circumstantial.". Additionally, James Clifford notes that Griaule sought informants best qualified to speak of traditional lore, and deeply mistrusted converts to Christianity, Islam, or people with too much contact with whites. Oberg points out a number of errors contained in the Dogon beliefs, including the number of moons possessed by Jupiter, that Saturn was the furthest planet from the sun, and the only planet with rings. Intrigue of other seemingly falsifiable claims, namely concerning a red dwarf star orbiting around Sirius (not hypothesized until the 1950s) led him to entertain a previous challenge of Temple's: This alludes to reports that the Dogon knew of another star in the Sirius system, Emme Ya, or a star "larger than Sirius B but lighter and dim in magnitude." In 1995, gravitational studies indeed showed the possible presence of a brown dwarf star orbiting around Sirius (a Sirius-C) with a six-year orbital period. A more recent study using advanced infrared imaging concluded that the probability of the existence of a triple star system for Sirius is "now low" but could not be ruled out because the region within 5 AU of Sirius A had not been covered.
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White man explaining ancient African knowledge? Kind of makes me upset. The nerve of these people. The same people who only described Africans as savages with bones in their noses.
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Im so tired of hearing that dude say "Dog On"
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The white man will ALWAYS say that Black Africans were taught by aliens. NEVER that they created all of this themselves out of their own cognition.
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DOGON not dogone, William.
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The answer is too easy
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Dagons are the only humans to move forward as they were when the last DNA genetic "upgrade" happened with humans, which is failing. The next times we us "upgraded" will happen soon. The Dagons will continue on for the 3rd upgrade, hopefully as instructors.
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dogon spelled backwards is nogod (no God)
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the more I elevate my mind, the more I realize how ignorant the people trying to teach me are. listen to these guys ooh and aahh about very simple concepts as if they are the most complex. trying to figure out why ancient poc are just as intelligent as, and if not, more than them. heads up of they appear to be advanced, your primitive thought pattern will never touch on what's really going on!
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William, say it with me...'Doe gun' not dawgon or dagan 'Do(e) gon' It's a small thing but it's important when you are talking about the name of something.
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not a cacauzoids, history, how they going to say its their history... lying asses as usual. always taking some one else hostory and make their own. just like no cacauzoid can stand the sun for to long, or else they will get cancer... so how the puck they going to claim egypt.... nothing but sun... lying asses
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because everything came from Africa kings queens even Jesus was black it's not racism it's just the truth
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There are things the Dogon knew that no one else on earth could have known at the time. The Dogon preserved the principles, ideals and practices that the old priests of Egypt knew. And it's not just Sirius and it's unseen companion, The Dogon possessed a superior knowledge of our entire solar system , that even modern day scientists could not have known. And the pinks have been trying to decipher that knowledge for themselves, but they cannot. I never heard of the existence of this community before the internet. that means the pinks had knowledge of these people, while we were fighting for our civil rights.While they were denying us our rights, they were trying their best to unlock the secrets of the Dogon to use for their own benefit. But this knowledge has alluded them even now, with all their sophisticated technology and expensive machines That's why they had to expose the existence of the Dogon to the world. They kept this knowledge hidden for 80 years. There are things in the old testament of the bible, no one on earth could have known at the time it was written. There is more there than just a myth. And, if the pinks have been studying this for over 80 years, trust and believe, they do so for a reason. We are not alone in the universe and we never have been. Nature repeats what ever is successful at survival, and repeats it over and over again. Think about this! We are just now learning that black people , Africans, have been on every single continent of this planet. How is it that they are now finding artifacts of our existence in lands, the pinks never knew we had been to. Ask yourself Who are we ? Really.
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Why is everything African attributed to aliens and not the people? The more enthusiastic the eurocentric is about Africa, the stranger his theories become. Sad
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Holy crap. This is so much funnier than Monthy Python!
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Great video!
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no written language, stone age primitives, right
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Comparing the great pyramid to a dogon granary just kind of seemed stupid
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Except Scranton never once said he subscribe to the weak ancient aliens theories.
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