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The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol: From the Dogon and Ancient Egypt to India, Tibet, and China
"Laird Scranton identifies the signature attributes of a theoretic ancient parent cosmology and makes the case that cosmology may have engendered civilization, not the other way around."
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Published
November 24th 2010
by Inner Traditions
(first published October 2010)
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Fascinating information while the dry writing style does sap some of the joy out of it, but it's well worth the read :-)
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He is an independent software designer who became interested in Dogon mythology and symbolism in the early 1990s. He has studied ancient myth, language, and cosmology since 1997 and has been a lecturer at Colgate University. He also appears in John Anthony West’s Magical Egypt DVD series.
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