The Dogon creation tradition rests on the actions of two anthropomorphized characters, Amma and Ogo. Ogo's name corresponds to an ancient Egyptian god of light Aakhu; his actions correspond to those of electricity and light. Amma's attributes consistently and accurately correspond to those of magnetism.
Figures carved into the two wooden door panels of the house of the high Dogon priest, known as the Arou priest, intuitively uphold what a wealth of other descriptions and drawings suggest. Amma's root domain is defined and illustrated as "perfectly ordered", just as it is the native mode of magnetism to self-align. Ogo's root domain is indistinguishable from the action of an unresisted circuit of electricity.
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Unresisted electrical flow:
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Magnetism self-aligns.
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The further down we trace the Dogon references, the more flatly objective the symbolism and descriptions become. We find, as we touch bottom with the symbolism, that we have sufficient information to effectively solve the major questions posed to us by the ancient cosmology, such as how such things as time, dimensionality, and expanding space arise. With that context, it becomes a much easier prospect to sort out what any given symbol or symbolic theme was originally meant to represent.
All of this becomes the focus of my just released book, Amma and the Spark of the Universe.
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- Laird
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Figures carved into the two wooden door panels of the house of the high Dogon priest, known as the Arou priest, intuitively uphold what a wealth of other descriptions and drawings suggest. Amma's root domain is defined and illustrated as "perfectly ordered", just as it is the native mode of magnetism to self-align. Ogo's root domain is indistinguishable from the action of an unresisted circuit of electricity.
Unresisted electrical flow:
Magnetism self-aligns.
The further down we trace the Dogon references, the more flatly objective the symbolism and descriptions become. We find, as we touch bottom with the symbolism, that we have sufficient information to effectively solve the major questions posed to us by the ancient cosmology, such as how such things as time, dimensionality, and expanding space arise. With that context, it becomes a much easier prospect to sort out what any given symbol or symbolic theme was originally meant to represent.
All of this becomes the focus of my just released book, Amma and the Spark of the Universe.
- Laird
[www.amazon.com]