Beyond that his arguments depend a lot upon dubious etymologies in various languages and in what he sees as apparent similarities between the myths of various ancient cultures-none of which were very convincing, most of which became quite tedious to follow. Further, I wasn't much impressed by the claims advanced by Temple in his attempt to represent to Dogon, nor in his attempt to show how they migrated via Egypt to their current habitations. His reason for imagining such?: that a people in southern Chad, the Dogon, knew things about the trinary Sirius system that no one else did, things subsequently confirmed by contemporary astrophysics.įrom other sources I've noted that this claim is contested. Temple's thesis is that amphibians from the Sirius star system visited Earth and imparted some information, possibly to the Egyptians, possibly to a culture antedating Egypt or Sumer, approximately 7000+ years ago. and was disappointed upon finishing its critical apparatus and beginning its first part. Excited by my purchase I began to read it immediately. I found the latter recently at the Amarynth Bookstore in Evanston. I've long kept my eye out for Hamlet's Mill and The Sirius Mystery, both books being often referred to in the UFO literature.
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