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The indescribable tooth

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That would be what the Dagara of West Africa call Yielbongura, "the thing that knowledge can't eat."

 

Neat, there is something to learn all the time.

 

I was going to delete the entire post earlier...

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Neat, there is something to learn all the time.

 

I was going to delete the entire post earlier...

So the dot you left did serve a purpose... you made a . point! :)

 

I just learned it myself the other day, and found fascinating parallels with taoist thought... Yielbongura is their way to say "the natural includes the supernatural," except there's no concept of "supernatural" there, just the idea that there's things that, should you attempt to sink the tooth of "describable" knowledge into them, would break it. "That which knowledge can't eat."

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... is their way to say "the natural includes the supernatural," except there's no concept of "supernatural" there, just the idea that there's things that, should you attempt to sink the tooth of "describable" knowledge into them, would break it. "That which knowledge can't eat."

 

I like that!

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