Ok, so anyone that’s talked to me lately has heard me raving about a new book I just finished. I definitely put it at the top of my “must read” reccommendation list. The book is called Science of the Dogon by Laird Scranton. The Dogon tribe in Mali in Africa that have an interesting history. They have managed to keep themselves pretty untouched by modern society. They have a cave that they have kept well-guarded over the years, and on the walls inside are ancient cave drawings depicting details about the “dog-star” Sirius, and it’s companion white dwarf star Sirius B. If you want more info on that, and the precession of the equinox, and the rise and fall of civilizations, read Lost Star by Walter Crittenden, another “must read”.
This book however, deals with the other info the Dogon possess, on cave drawings and in stories of Gods and creation, that have been orally handed down over the years, as the Dogon have no written language. The author tells how the Dogon creation stories and drawings correlate to Egyptian heiroglyphs and their meanings and their stories, and relates all of that to modernday science theory and biological facts.
There are diagrems from An Elegant Universe regarding string theory that match up almost identically with Egyptian Heiroglyphs with meanings of string, vibrations, and of a Goddess that weaves the cloth of life. One of the more interesting things I found out about Egyptian Heiroglyphs is that they usually have more than one meaning, and while at first glance, those different meanings might seem completey unrelated, when looked at through a scientific eye, make total sense. The Egyptian goddess Neith, who is the mother of all gods, has a hieroglyph that also means string and looks like an exact replica of a diagram from Greene’s The Elegant Universe, depicting a complex interaction of strings.
The Dogon word for water is Nummo, and relates to the numbers 2 and 8. There are 2 hydrogen molecules and 8 oxegen molecules in water. The Dogons say copper contains water too and that a coil of copper goes around the Sun. Copper’s molecular structure also contains 2 and 8.
Two and 8 also correlate to the most basic creation story: meiosis. A egg divides in 2 and then 4 more pairs of two are created by division. These are the germ cells that humans develop from in the womb.
The Dogons tell of a pair (2) of Gods that produce offspring, which produce their own offspring, resulting in 4 more pairs (8).
Superimpose this concept onto your own beliefs and the creation stories that have been handed down to you and I think you might just look at things differently. Science and religion just may end up being one and the same after all.
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