Wow brehs... I'm reading about the DOGON tribe from the mountains Mali, untouched by white slavery.

[Jhoon]

This just stresses how badly the African Diaspora needs to connect and share info.

Our lack of connection to each other has made a weakness and has been abused by racist whites for AGES.

Look at what is happening in this thread.

In the end they still failed

 

[CEITEDMOFO]

Look at what is happening in this thread.

In the end they still failed

How so?

and just keeping it a buck we've already had ONE disruptance within this thread.

don't need another.

 

[Jhoon]

How so?

and just keeping it a buck we've already had ONE disruptance within this thread.

don't need another.

This thread is a testament to the truth and history. The same internet that they created to help facilitate communication if a mass incident were to happen is the same instrument that is highlighting the history of the people of Africa.

 

[Donny]

Someone posted a picture of the Dogon wearing the weaving. Weaving and basketry are masculine activities. Weavers, who belong to all classes of society, work sometimes in wool, but especially in cotton. The looms are usually set up in the middle of the village or at crossroads.

Metalwork, woodwork, and leatherwork are performed by members of caste. The Iru, the smiths often inhabit special section at the edge of the village, where they live separately from the rest of the population. As artisans, they do not cultivate the earth, but manufacture all tools necessary for agriculture, as well as arms for hunting or fishing. A great number of ritual (in wood or metal) must be manufactured exclusively by the smith. In the past they were paid in kind for their labor. The smith occupies a separate, yet prominent place in society. Considered as civilizing mythical hero, he plays an important role in intitation.

Leatherwork is practiced by the caste of shoemakers (dam), who also live at the fringes of Dogon Society. They buy sheepskins and goatskin for tanning or sometimes for dyeing, and make them into satchels, belts, sandals, saddles, bracelets, etc.

Dogon society, complex at 1st glance, is in fact rigorously divided into numerous opposite and complementary social group; the masculine domain is opposite the feminine, the initiates are opposite the non-initiates, the different classes of age separate and distinct,etc. Thus it forms a complex system of different types of social relations, through which the respective statutes of its member are lived & expressed. On a larger scale, The Dogon, as farmers, are opposite the caste members (artisans, griots), with regard to whom they maintain exogamy, but with whom they live in a sort of symbiosis from a viewpoint of technical, economic, and religious complementarity.

Among the Dogon, as elsewhere, the social, political, and economic organizations are interdependent w/ the system of beliefs, this being in function of a general apphrension in their social life, of the supernatural world, the world of the living, and that of the ancestor. The establishment of settlement, the land regulations and everything that is connected with it are, of course, included in this unitary system one can neither buy nor sell land where an ancestor of the tribe, clan, or lineage has settled. Each one, according to this rank in the social hiearchy, has the right to develop a parcel of land of which he has temporary possession or usufruct and the allocation of which adheres to strict rules within the lineage at the time when its chief succeeds his deceased "brother" or father.

II:35. The Egyptians in agreement with their climate, which is unlike any other, and with the river, which shows a nature different from all other rivers, established for themselves manners and customs in a way opposite to other men in almost all matters: for among them the women frequent the market and carry on trade, while the men remain at home and weave; and whereas others weave pushing the woof upwards, the Egyptians push it downwards
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ancient.eu/amp/2-86/

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Damn good thread.

 

[IronFist]

Diachronically Mukùlù = Hk3 = Hogon = OgBoni = Osugbo = Nwst = Wsjr = Sr.

 

[IronFist]

2n system is present among the Dogon and bambara of mali and is also present within Ifa among the Yoruba . To represent on or light in the Ifa oracle 1 would make a single mark upon Opon Ifa . To represent "off" or "darkness", one would make double [II] mark upon the Opon Ifa. Side by side comparison of Egyptian/Ethiopian multiplication method, modern computer notation, and Ifa signature (odu') will help us to better understand how the system of calculation in African spiritual systems is the same methods used by modern computers to do the feats they are able to do.

Egyptian
1/ 30/
2 [-] 60
4/ 120/
8/ 240/
13 390
computer
1 "electricity"
0 "no electricity"
1 "electricity"
1"electricity"
ifa
I
II
I
I​

The doubling as a cultural theme occurs in many different African African societies and in many different social domains, connecting sacred of spirit doublesm double vision etc with material objects. Ifa divination is based on tossing pais of flat shells or seeds split in two. Landing each either open-sided or closed-sided with open reprsenting light and close equating to dark. They're connected by a doubled chain called a signature or odu, whih tells the future of the diviner. Leg of the odu is an symbolic code in which each symbol represented by a set of vertical dashed lines drawn in the sand of the opon, stands for an archetypical concept embodied in the imale or orisa.

 

[IronFist]

more from notes/research

Ogotemmeli (a dogon priest) that the human body was the blueprint for the organization & functioning of all levels of human society. the human body was a most sacred symbol & seal: it symbolized the spirit, The Word made flesh, the covenant between man and God. Body is the vehicle for which the soul participates in life., Its highly regarded and santcified as the vehicle that which the soul participates in life.Its also the primary vehicle of mystical participiation in entire order of creation.. Every aspect of life ------ from the plan of cosmos, lovemaking, coduct if commerce ,dance ---- Ogotemmeli interpreted the human body as the principal divine oracle. Its thru the body that the mysteries of life and cosmos are revealed.Society is organized around bodily theme; it reassert the relionship between human life & the earth and reminds humanity of its connection with divinity.
The ideal Dogon village is laid out in the way of a human body,Its oriented in North/South direction & made to appear like a human .

the dogon do not have kings however they are governed by the elders, the hogon chief. the fundamental functions of Hogon are as follows"
The hogon has a key role in village rituals and in ensuring fertility and germination.
The Hogon is central to wide range of fertility and marriage rituals, which are closely related to dogon origin myths.
the hogon may conduct rituals in the Sanctuaire de Binou, a special building whose door is blocked with a rock.

 

[KingsOfKings]

Phenomenal thread.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Phenomenal thread.

Indeed.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[Leasy]

A lot of people don't know that the Dogo are ancestors to the Hopi Indian tribe here in Ta-Meri (America)

 

[Samori Toure]

A lot of people don't know that the Dogo are ancestors to the Hopi Indian tribe here in Ta-Meri (America)

 

[Leasy]

The Hopi Indians have the same traditional and dress up as the Dogon tribe. I am on the phone but look it up. The Hopi Indians also stated that their ancestors came from the East. Evidence presents its case very easy.