Semitic Dagon vs Dagon (Yangon) of Myanmar

If there is a connection, it is deeply, deeply, deeply hidden, if the Illuminati show up at your door one evening, you might ask them.  I would consider it akin to the God-dog hypothesis, which only works in English.  

Looking it up on wiki, manat was goddess of destiny and fate, not mensuration??  But, of course, that dealing with an English interpretation, so maybe there is more to the story.  I am inclined to think it is a coincidence, and if it is not a coincidence, then so what?  Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan adoption of Manat seems like it would be post-Islamic, not something held over from pre-Islamic times, from thousands of miles away.  It would seem like to me that manat would stem from 'money' or 'monetary,' but I would be skeptical of those also.

In addition to above 2 meanings of Dagon, there is also the Dogon tribe in Africa:

Edited by Novosedoff - 30 May 2021 at 20:30

Sirius is the brightest and one of the nearest stars in the sky, which is not to be disregarded as far as the travel time is concerned. But more important is the nature of the story the tribe has come up with. You can't make up a story like that because it is so different. It is the abnormality of their story that makes me wonder if there is anything real behind it. Should it be the virgin birth etc, I would have been immediately bored, probably given up reading any further instantly because that would be so obscure, enigmatic and impractical.

Twins run in certain families, if your culture esteem twins that would mean that it would be more likely for twins to have children (which have a higher chance of being twins).  Also, nazis did experiments on twins, which would mean that certain lineages of twins would be depressed.  I also assume that inbreeding would increase the likelihood of twins, but I don't know that.

I tend to think that there is a kernel of truth in most myths.  Now, I also think that usually we cannot figure out the significance, and so it is best to leave it (the myth) alone.  That does not mean that one should not wrestle with it, but rather it is to recognize that most analysis is reductionistic, and in the process of dissection, usually kills the 'patient.'  If Burnham had known about the Sirius worship by the Dogon people, he would have undoubtedly included it in his cultural description of the star in his Celestial Guide (Reader, whatever he called it), like he did for the Lord of the Rings reference, and the H.P. Lovecraft reference (Hyades).  But, maybe I will look up the article you mention.

Edited by franciscosan - 13 Jun 2021 at 05:13

Do you think you are going to be able to elaborate on such (a supposed) connection?  They do not seem coincidental compared to what?  One can read into there, their, and they're, but grounding out the 'theres' in some kind of commonality is nebulous at best.  Do you have some kind of criteria under which they (your sites) are similar, or perhaps you are intuiting a similarity which may or may not be there? Now I don't see it absolutely totally as a coincidence, there are linguistic limitations for the creation of words, and both Myanmar, Africa and the Middle East are going to be familiar with some kinds of amphibians.  If you had some idea of an orangutan in some culture in the new world, or a tapir in the old world that would be interesting.  So would cotton or tobacco in the Egyptian pyramids.