HISTORY: Myth Of Reality The Olmec And Chinese

The Olmec, Chinese, Dogon, Hopi and Nok Trail

In the 4th Century, some Chinese, descendants of the Teros, who were looking for more land, came to America under Hsu Shen, of the Shang Dynasty, came to the shore of America during an exploration in 459 A.D. These Teros came into California and bumped into the Olmecs. They mixed producing the Native Americans.

Their first offspring were the Hopis, meaning "Peaceful Ones." The Hopi were chosen to create a 'Mystic Order' that protected the original Dogons customs. This is why the Hopi to this day have the same rituals and Ceremonies of the Dogon. The Nubas gave them secrets of the stars, which are held by the Dogons today, about the Sirius Star constellation and the alignment every 50 years, which is the Sigui.

The religious beliefs of the Dogon are enormously complex and knowledge of them varies greatly within Dogon society. Dogon religion is defined primarily through the worship of the ancestors and the spirits that they encountered as they slowly migrated from their obscure ancestral homelands to the Bandiagara cliffs. There are three principal cults among the Dogon, the Awa, Lebe and Binu.

The Awa is a cult of the dead, whose purpose is to reorder the spiritual forces disturbed by the death of Nommo, a mythological ancestor of great importance to the Dogon. The cult of Lebe, the Earth God, is primarily concerned with the agricultural cycle and its chief priest is called a Hogon.

The cult of Binu is a totemic practice and it has complex associations with the Dogon's sacred places used for ancestral worship, spirit communication and agricultural sacrifices.

In the late 1940’s, Dogon priests greatly surprised the French anthropologists Griaule and Dieterlen by telling them of secret Dogon myths about the star Sirius (8.6 light years from the earth). The priests said that Sirius had a companion star that was invisible to the human eye. They also stated that the star moved in a 50-year elliptical orbit around Sirius, that it was small and incredibly heavy, and that it rotated on its axis.

All these things happen to be true (the actual orbital figure is 50.04 +/- 0.09 years). But what makes this so remarkable is that the companion star of Sirius, called Sirius B, was first photographed in 1970. While people began to suspect its existence around 1844, it was not seen through a telescope until 1862. The Dogon beliefs, on the other hand, were supposedly 3000 thousands years old.

Nok was a West African civilization that flourished from about 1000 B.C., until at least A.D. 200. It was centred in the valley where the Niger and Benue rivers meet. Today, Nok is the name of a village in Nigeria, about 160 kilometres Northeast of Baro.

The people of ancient Nok produced the oldest sculptures found so far in black Africa. The British archaeologist Bernard Fagg, who named them after the village of Nok, identified these sculptures of animal and human figures. Similar sculptures have been discovered at many other sites in the river valley.

The Nok sculptures are made of terracotta, a kind of earthenware. They vary in size from 2.5 centimetres high to life size. All the human heads have pierced ears, and the eyes are hollowed out. Scholars do not know what function these sculptures had in the Nok society.