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Robert Temple: The Sirius Mystery, Revisited

Earth Ancients

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The Origins of the Dogen Mythology

The only reason we know this is because the French anthropologists who published these accounts in the 1950s, and I met the surviving one. They got the confidence of the Dogen priests who told them all the initiatory secrets about Sirius. There's plenty of other stuff to do with their mythology that was more widely known. But you see, nobody like that got theconfidence of the Bambara. That's what Plato used to do with his stick. He drew his geometrical diagrams in the sand. And they didn't have paper, you see, and they're the only ones who opened up so that's the reason why we only know about the details from the Dogen.

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