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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Summary of the whole Dogon thing in LaTeX
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.181503.12825@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 18:15:03 GMT
- References: <BzB5J6.M7y@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- I'm a bit late in pointing this out, but...
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- In article <BzB5J6.M7y@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- >\fromfield{Scott C DeLancey}{delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu}
- >[..] my vague memory is that the striking coincidence in the story is
- >that the Dogon attribute to Sirius, which is a deity, a dark twin. If
- >that's all there is to it (if there's more, sorry, I didn't check my
- >facts) then I'm not sure that the coincidence is all that striking.
- >Lots of deities around the world are associated with celestial objects,
- >and lots and lots of deities around the world have twins.
-
- Another factor:
- Lots and lots of stars are double or multiple; isn't it more than half of
- them?
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- "Every three months I tell all of the new recruits that they are supposed to
- stand here and not there to get their uniforms, but they just don't learn!"
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