In this episode, Laird and I discuss his research and deep insight into the Dogon tribe which has a deep and interesting connection to Ancient Egypt, Israel, and the Sirius star system.
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This episode was excellent! Probably the best interview with Laird that I’ve ever heard. Great work Joe! Your questions really elicited very accessible explanations about the Dogon symbol systems and Laird’s work.
Thanks Greg, I appreciate the kind words. Took me forever to get this one out.
as always, great work again Joe
thank u for the many wonderful podcasts.
may these eclipses be auspicious to you & Goddess bless
Thanks Braeden, Could you tell me about your site? I don’t fully understand. Thanks for listening!!
Joe,
Thanks for the podcast. It was worth the wait. One of your best yet. I thought you contributed a great deal to the interview with your knowledge and complemented Laird very well. You should invite him back again to go into further detail as this is a vast topic.
Miss your podcasts! Please don’t stop!
-swiped directly from Dogon Wiki-I have also read excerpts from van Beek’s work on this subject and the characterization would make a great movie. -”More recently, doubts have been raised about the validity of Griaule and Dieterlein’s work.[23][24] In a 1991 article in Current Anthropology anthropologist Walter van Beek concluded after his research among the Dogon that,
“Though they do speak about sigu tolo [which is what Griaule claimed the Dogon called Sirius] they disagree completely with each other as to which star is meant; for some it is an invisible star that should rise to announce the sigu [festival], for another it is Venus that, through a different position, appears as sigu tolo. All agree, however, that they learned about the star from Griaule”[25]
Griaule’s daughter Genevieve Calame-Griaule responded in a later issue, arguing that Van Beek did not go “through the appropriate steps for acquiring knowledge” and suggesting that van Beek’s Dogon informants may have thought that he had been “sent by the political and administrative authorities to test the Dogon’s Muslim orthodoxy.” [26] An independent assessment is given by Andrew Apter of the University of California.[27]“