Nommo

The Dogons believe that in ancient times, an aquatic culture came to them from out of the sky. Human looking beings, acting as saviors and spiritual guardians, landed close to their village in a space ship described to have 3 triangular legs. Being that they were amphibious, upon landing, they filled a reservoir of water onto the land. Exiting their ship was done by diving into this reservoir. How strange and frightening this must have been to the Dogon of this time! After the initial arrival, the Dogons realized that much like our amphibious creatures today, the NOMMOS were able to adapt to both environments, thus although their primary home would be water, they were still able to walk, talk and live on land. Another thing that was so amazing about these star people was in the fact they had shapeshifting abilities. Whether it was done by mersmerization or not is unknown to me.

As Dogon legend has it, the Nommo divided his body among men to feed them, thus giving them Nommo's life principles.
"As the Universe had drunk of his body; the Nommo also made men drink"
I find an interesting similarity here with the body and blood of Christ used our Christian Religions.

The Nommo was crucified and resurrected, again to visit the Earth, this time in the form of a human.
Later he will assume his amphibious form and will rule the world from the waters.
Here again we see another similarity in the Christian Faith of Christ's crucification, resurrection and return.

Although primitive in today's standards and completely cut off from the world, the Dogon Tribe has advanced knowledge of our solar system. What the Dogons knew thousands of years ago our scientists only came to discover in 1978, which was the dwarf star Sirius B. They not only knew about it but could point to its locality. Their claim to this knowledge came from the Nommo.
The knew, that Sirius A, the brightest sky in our sky is next to a small white dwarf called Sirius B.

Reports of the Fish Gods are found all over the world, whether it be in our research of ancient history or in the study of modern day theology. Interestingly, even though these cultures are seperated by time and space, their descriptions of the Fish Gods are remarkably similar . The priests try to honor the fish gods by dressing with a fish robe and headset. even today, our Christian tradition symbolizes Christ with the sign of the 'fish'. The Dogon tradition claims that these alien visitors came from Sirius, the Constellation of the Dog. Southwest Indians still today, look to the Dog Star as their home and seek psychic guidance from it. We have taught our children to look at the Dog Star and make a wish 'When you wish upon a star...makes no difference where you are...." Disney . The sailors have always carried the tales of the mythical sireens or mermaids.

Examples of other cultures who worshiped Amphibian Deities and Gods

Babylon : The Babylonians history tells of the fish gods who brought civilization to their people. OANNES or OE was the principal god, who came from the GREAT EGG. During the day he stayed with the people on land, but at night he returned to the Sea. The Babylonians called his kind ANNEDOTUS.

Sumerian: The Sumerians called the Fish God, "Enki" or "Ea"- It was in Sumer where their kingship first descended from heaven. EA was thought to live in the 'APSU' or submarine palace.

Phillistines: The Phillistines worshiped two amphibian dieties, DAGON and ATARGIS . They described them as human type beings with tails of fish.

Egyptian: Pharos, in northern Egypt, was said to be the home of 'THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA., a shape-shifting amphibious deity known as PROTEUS,, son of OCEANUS and renowned among ancient Greeks as an oracle. Traditional legends specifically claimed that he often sheltered in a cave to avoid the heat of Sirius.

Greek Culture Poseidon, God from the sea

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