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Dogon Tribal Wisdom: The Myths of Time, Language & Selective History w/ Naba Iritah #489

The Life Stylist

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The Limitations of Language

You were talking yesterday about your language and all the many dialects of your people. Then at one point you even talked about when you were playing your drum. What I think is most interesting about that is the limitations of most of the languages in the world. The Latin languages again, they really lacked the true expression of the expansiveness of nature in the natural world. With 26 letters, how will you be able to manifest the whole universe, the whole nature, the whole existence?

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