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Ogotommeli - Energy recycling
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Conversations with Ogotommeli (An Introduction to Dogon Religious ideas) – Professor Marcel Griaule
He expanded on the notable part played by the sun in sucking up the clouds and on the transformation into copper of the luminous rays excreted by the Nummo [creator spirits]
The rays of light and heat draw the water up and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out and gives back the life force. This movement indeed makes life…. He wanted to say that what made life was not so much force as the movement of forces … to draw up and then return what one has drawn – that is the life of the world