“Going back to the sixty-year period of the Dogon sigui, Hunter Adams III writes: ‘Every sixty years, when the orbital periods of Jupiter and Saturn are synchronized, a ceremony called ‘sigui’ takes place.’ What must be added is that this is the same sidereal period baptized ‘great year’ that Oenopides, who went to Egypt to be initiated, claimed to have discovered.” “According to Paul Ver Eeke: ‘Oenopides of Chios lived around 450 B.C. and, according to Eudemus, cited by Theo of Smyrna, discovered the ecliptic’s obliquity whose measure had a value of twenty degrees. He had established in Greece the great year… of fifty-nine years, which, according to him, marked the return of all astronomical phenomena, discoveries that he had engraved on a bronze table and displayed in Olympia.’ “By referring to the indicated pages in this book, one finds out that the process remains the same: the Greeks who were initiated in Egypt appropriate everything they learned once they went back to their country. The discovery of the ecliptic and even of the calendar were also attributed to Thales.” “From the above it follows that the Africans of the interior of the continent, like the Greeks (Pythagoras, Plato, Oenopides, etc.), were initiated to different degrees in Egypt, which was then the intellectual center of the world; only this view can explain the above-mentioned numerous encounters, which not only could not stem from chance, but which reestablish clarity and rationality where Greek plagiarism had created a zone of darkness and obscurity.” “A vigorous, valuable manner of building a modern science on the terrain of African tradition recognized as such, from the legacy of the past, for a young African astrophysician would be to tackle the verification of the annual rotation of Sirius’ companion around its own axis, a movement predicted by the Dogon cosmogony and which modern astronomy has not yet been able to wither confirm or invalidate.” “Be that as it may, we see to what extent these ancient doctrines of Africa are invaluable for the archaeology of African thought, and, for this reason alone, their study will always be indispensable for the African thinker, if he wants to build an intellectual tradition based on historical terrain.” “We have just shown that these doctrines constitute irreplaceable complements of the classical sources, in order to rediscover the winding paths followed by the ancient philosophical doctrines from Egypt. They shed an unexpected light on the Greeks’ unavowed borrowings from Egyptian thought in the most diverse domains, and they therefore reveal that they necessarily or probably had the same status as Greek thought had at the time of Greek and African common initiation in Egypt.” “But the African initiatory tradition degrades the quasi-scientific thoughts that it received during very ancient periods, instead of enriching them with time.” Cheikh Anta Diop “Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology” Page 320
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