http://www.metafilter.com/tags/dogon Posts tagged with 'dogon' at MetaFilter. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:08:21 -0800 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:08:21 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/79433/The%2DVenus%2DCalendar%2Dand%2DRelated%2DLore%2Dof%2Dthe%2DDogon <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~pcstef/venus_dogon.html">The Venus Calendar and Related Lore of the Dogon</a> by <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~pcstef/index.htm">Philip C. Steffey, PhD</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.79433 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:08:21 -0800 Calendar Dogon Venus sidr http://www.metafilter.com/29068/The%2DDogon%2Dof%2DMali The <a href="http://www.dogon-lobi.ch/dogonalbum.htm" title="A vast photo archive of daily and ceremonial life">beautiful</a> and <a href="http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/dogon.html" title="Well rounded overview of their history and religious philosophy with great photography">complex</a> culture of the <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/dogon.html" title="A thorough summation of the history, culture, cosmology and conjecture">Dogon</a> tribe of Mali... they <a href="http://www.ramtops.demon.co.uk/dogon.html" title="A skeptical appraisal of the claims"> may</a> have had advanced <a href="http://fusionanomaly.net/dogontribe.html" title="Intriguing specifics as to the Sirius star system">astronomical knowledge</a> long before their European counterparts. Particularly, their tribe has had a long mystical association with <a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0400/sirius_part2.html" title="Could the Dogon's knowledge of Sirius the result of keen eyesight and primitive telescopes?">Sirius</a>, leading some to speculate that their ideas had <a href="http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/thalass2.htm" title="This page gently asserts that Dogon celestial knowledge came from 'unearthly sources.'">phenomenal</a> roots. Regardless of the mystery, the tribe is also well known for it's amazing <a href="http://www.sagatours.com/dogon-masks-photos.html" title="Some masks are only worn once every sixty years">masks</a> and intricate <a href="http://www.designthatmatters.org/field-journal/archives/000057.html" title="The making of statues and fabrics">art</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29068 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:02:55 -0800 astronomy dogon mali sirius moonbird