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Amma’s Egg

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  • Amma

    …refer to this body as Amma’s Egg and characterize it as a conical, somewhat quadrangular structure with a rounded point and as filled with unrealized potentiality; its corners prefigure the four future cardinal points of the universe to come. According to Dogon myth, some undefined impulse caused this egg to…

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    …refer to this body as Amma’s Egg and characterize it as a conical, somewhat quadrangular structure with a rounded point and as filled with unrealized potentiality; its corners prefigure the four future cardinal points of the universe to come. According to Dogon myth, some undefined impulse caused this egg to…

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