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Shannon Dorey


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Shannon Dorey (born 1955) is a Canadian author best known for her research on the African Dogon people. She is a graduate of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada with a combined English and History degree. Her interests were expanded to religious studies after studying the New Testament at the University of Windsor in 1991.
Based on the work of ethnographers Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, Dorey has written four books analyzing the symbols found in the Dogon religion. In The Master of Speech, published in 2002, Dorey associated the Dogon symbols with genetics and biological engineering. In The Nummo, published in 2004, Dorey hypothesized that the Dogon religion was an extremely ancient oral tradition with traces of it fo ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 11 ratings · 1 review · 4 distinct works
The Master of Speech
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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The Nummo: The Truth About ...
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006
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Day of the Fish
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The Rose: Dogon Star Knowledge
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