Unlocking the Secrets of the Dogon: A Comprehensive Exploration of African Mystery Traditions with Laird Scranton

Rod HarryRod Harry: Science of the Dogon.. Could not put it down.. Two words “GET IT”” U won’t be disappointed!! Totally informative.. A truly great read!! EXCELLENT!!

Australia on Jan 03, 2023

Aphra Omega: I think the Egyptian Book of the Dead is about as close to the Bible is it going to get. There's so much talk now Egypt olliges archaeologists anthropologists all these ologists in Egypt interpreting for us what Egyptian history is. You know but it's always a good and exciting idea 2 decipher in the yourself. I don't think anyone will ever completely no the mysteries of ancient Egypt just as I don't think people will ever accept that there was no Egypt and Sudan it was one land mass or one people. There's really no evidence that the book itself is accurate but it is an interesting read.

United States on Jun 26, 2019

Cypriana: Well, if you ever wondered where did we come from and how our evolution has been affected, reading this book will add even more questions, but also shed some light to these questions. You will wonder, who/why the Dogons have these "myths" (to me, the definition of the word "myth" is "history that wasn't written down because at the time there was not writting, but was kept alive from mouth to mouth") and celebrate the arrival of their ancestors. It will make you question HOW an African tribe knows and talks about Sirious. And even more important their knowledge of the hidden star SIRIUS B, knowledge preceding modern science! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did...

United States on Jan 21, 2019

Amazon Customer: Must read it ties science and the symbolism of the Dog on and egiptians together.

Canada on Dec 26, 2018

S. Wall: Fascinating insights. Rather intense method of explanation, not as easy to read as say Graham Hancock, and thus the loss of one star. But a complementary study to other lost civilisation researchers, adding more weight and understanding to this growing field.

United Kingdom on Dec 19, 2018

Amazon Customer: Well researched and well explained. Further adds to my belief that the ancients had detailed knowledge and understanding. Along with the fact that "we" have been around for longer than we think.

Thanks for your work;-)

United Kingdom on Jan 28, 2017

AE: When first I saw Laird Scranton’s book, The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition, I thought, “Oh, another re-hash of the ancient alien theory.”

There had been a lot of talk about the Dogon ever since Robert Temple published a chapter on them in The Sirius Mystery: New Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago. (Temple’s chapter was based on anthropologists Griaule’s and Dieterlen’s work with the Dogon).

But last week I heard an interview with Laird Scranton. He was discussing his work on Chinese cosmology and how it, symbolically, is similar to the Dogon and others. THAT certainly changed my mind. This man is brilliant.

And, as my blog suggests--the book fulfilled al my expectations for his first book.
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United States on Jan 01, 2017

D. Njoku: It is most enlightening to know that there was a superior scientific world in existence BCE. It puts a different perspective on history.
To many of us, although the evidence of the Pyramids; the Sphinx and Stonehenge, among other wonders, are yet with us, still we suffer
from the illusion that our scientific age is superior; many of us still ignorant of the fact that the very foundation of our knowledge had its origin and rests upon ancient knowledge and science. Many of us need to go research Anthony West ''Magical Egypt'' on Youtube.com, for example, for a good ''brainwash'', . And the true meaning of that word is to wash out your brain.

United Kingdom on Apr 02, 2015

Samudra: While abed with that cough everyone had in February, I couldn't do much but watch Netflix and Hulu Plus, where I found a short but startling series called "The Pyramid Code." Now, I've always hated the Von Danikens and Ancient Aliens Guys because even if their conclusions should somehow happen to be true, they have no sense of what is and what isn't evidence, their arguments are invalid, and they can't make their predicates and subjects agree. Also, I've always felt with Zahi Hawass that to claim that extraterrestrial help was needed to build the Pyramids is to demean HUMAN intelligence. (After all, it was the Stone Age, not the Stupid Age.) But "The Pyramid Code" introduced me to geological, astronomical, mathematical, electrical, and linguistic arguments that were actually ARGUMENTS, and so fact-based they made the orthodox narrative look like fabrication. So, since I was too sick to walk to the library, I ordered this e-book and read it within a few hours, thus enjoying both an immediacy of gratification and a remarkable hypothesis which, true or not, is both entertaining and worth entertaining. I'd recommend it to anyone who prefers their spookiness backed up by facts, not by...

United States on Apr 20, 2013

Sailorman: This was a tough little book for me to read. If one were a student of linguistics or ancient religions I expect they would love this book. I, being neither, had difficulty getting through the 194 pages. I don't know what I expected when I purchased the book; maybe another "Sirius Mystery" or "Orion Mystery", but whatever it was, I was disappointed.

Mr. Scranton attempts to correlate many of the central words and symbols of the Dogon with those of Judaism and the peoples of ancient Egypt, and to demonstrate that cosmological traditions of the Dogon define an apparent system of mythological symbols and stories whose patterns can be seen repeated again and again in the myths and symbols of ancient cultures from other regions throughout the world. While Mr. Scranton does present some rather convincing correlations, his theory that 3,400 years ago the Dogon knew all about the atom, atomic energy, quarks, string theory, quantum forces and quantum spin, the big bang, cells, genes, chromosomes, and DNA, I think is a case of finding and presenting only the data that supports the hypothesis.

The text that is written Mr. Scranton is straightforward and easy to comprehend, but...

United States on Apr 05, 2008