Disclosure Series: The Dogon Record — One Crew, One Craft, Many Witnesses

Zenodo record — Disclosure Series: The Dogon Record Title Disclosure Series: The Dogon Record — One Crew, One Craft, Many Witnesses Author Culajay, Juan F. Affiliation: Fractalism Framework Research Institute, Orlando, Florida, United States ORCID: 0009-0002-6887-5228 Resource type Publication → Preprint (Report) Publication date 2026-10-20 Language English Description / Abstract The Dogon of the Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali, remember pieces of an account also transmitted to India and Egypt, and carry three records alongside it: a group of eight beings in four pairs, four distinct beings, and a radial object that matches a nine-part reference template drawn from Ezekiel 1 and Val Camonica rock art. This paper argues that the Dogon account usually called the "ark" is not a vessel narrative. Read for what was observed, it is the same account preserved in India as Matsya and in Egypt as the Ogdoad of Hermopolis: eight beings and one more, a being of the water who brings them, an arrival into water, and the first land. In the Dogon, Egyptian and Navajo records the Eight are four male–female pairs, and in all three they come from the water. The evidence rests on objects, not on any single fieldworker's account: a 16th–19th-century aduno koro in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1979.206.255) that carves the Eight, the towing being and a central beast as one scene; two separately cast Dogon crowns, both sold as crowns of the Hogon, whose orthographic top views land on the reference template and whose other views do not; and the gripping pose of the winged beast, repeated by the Dogon in masks, vessels, metalwork and architecture and shared with Egyptian and Navajo depictions. Three competing explanations are addressed first: fieldwork contamination (van Beek), astronomical readings (Sirius, Orion) and plasma discharge (Peratt). Every claim is labeled Confirmed, Extrapolated Logic or Speculative Hypothesis. Keywords comparative mythology; convergence; Dogon; Nommo; aduno koro; Hogon; Ogdoad; Matsya; Navajo; Whirling Log; Ezekiel; cross craft; non-human intelligence License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Funding None. Communities (optional) None selected. Possible: a comparative religion, anthropology or African studies community, if one accepts preprints. Related identifiers (part of the Disclosure Series) Relation for each: References (resource type: Publication / Preprint) DOI Work 10.5281/zenodo.23479350 Culajay, J. (2026). Disclosure Series: One Blueprint Across Civilizations. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.22239792 Culajay, J. (2026). Disclosure Series — Co-Sapient Earth: Nagatridactylus sapiens and the Evidence for a Large Native Amphibian Intelligence. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.20786777 Culajay, J. (2026). Disclosure Series — The Mathematics We Inherited from NHI: Base-12. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.20768253 Culajay, J. (2026). Disclosure Series — From the Water: The Creator Who Comes From the Deep. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.19688370 Culajay, J. (2026). Fractal Sapience in the Age of Disclosure: A Terrestrial Framework for Interpreting Non-Human Intelligence, Mythology, and UAP Phenomena. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.17048770 Culajay, J. F. (2025). The Amphibian Hypothesis: The Nazca J-Type Mummy, Tridactyl Morphology, and the Hidden Evolutionary Puzzle (Version 1). Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.20672345 Culajay, J. (2026). "Rectamphibius tridactylus" — A Provisional Classification of the J-Type Tridactyl Specimens. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.23108917 Culajay, J. (2026). Disclosure Series: Erectosuchus sapiens — Candidate Bipedal Archosaurian Specimen. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.23381097 Culajay, J. (2026). Disclosure Series: Homopan tridactyla — Origin and Role in the Ancient World. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.23380598 Culajay, J. (2026). Disclosure Series — Kashyapa's Catalog: Vedic Taxonomy, the Siwalik Fossil Record, and the Pliocene-Pleistocene Faunal Event. Zenodo. Additional notes This preprint is part of the Disclosure Series — fractalismframework.com Open Review Policy. This publication is part of an open scientific dialogue. Researchers and readers are encouraged to contribute constructive reviews, critiques, or replication insights related to the fractalism framework and the broader Disclosure Series. Valuable feedback may be acknowledged in future versions or derivative works.