Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion?
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The Dogon tribe around Mali in West African caught attention because they might have been able to identify that a star was a binary system before modern tech did (possibly due to good eyesight but also possibly just bad anthropology.)
This led to a lot of interest in their religion, which have elements that ancient astronaut weirdos have adopted into that mythology. It deserves some not stupid attention.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Interesting.
I think this is a better link.
I don’t know anything about any of this other than the 2 minutes I just spent reading wikipedia.
My guess would be that Griaule overlaid a contemporary understanding of astronomy on top of their mythology, either through ineptitude or as a way to procure funding for more expeditions.
What I mean is, it’s infinitely more likely that their mythology was “we are the descendants of the brightest star we can see”, than they are actually descended from refugees from sirius.