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This is an excerpt from The Cannabible 3 by Jason King. Buy it... buy them all.


Are You Sirius?

Take a look at the word cannabis. Ever wonder what it means? Cannabis is a Greek word, though its root is African. In Greek, canna means "canine," or "dog," and bis or bi is the number two. So cannabis is the "two dog plant!" That in itself is interesting to me. But the pot thickens.

There is a cannabis-loving tribe in Mali, West Africa, called the Dogon Tribe. A fairly well-documented group, the Dogons were visited by Herodotus, a Greek traveler and chronicler, around 300 BCE. He was fortunate enough to have visited the Dogons during a yearlong celebration (makes the Cannabis Cup seem pretty week!) that took place every 50 years. Explaining their celebration, the Dogons pointed to the brightest star in the winter sky, Sirius, and said it was the "Two Dog Star," and that it was the home of the "two dog plant," cannabis. The two dog plant, they said, was brought to our planet by the goddess from the Two Dog Star. Their yearlong celebration was in honor of that star.

All of this would be easy to dismiss if not for the fact that the Dogons possessed specific knowledge about the Sirian system for thousands of years before scientists with modern telescopes and equipment could catch up and prove them right. The Dogons had specific knowledge about Sirius B, a white dwarf star, which they call Po Tolo. They knew that it was white, that it was extremely small, and that it was the heaviest star in its grouping. (As it turns out, it's three hundred times denser than diamonds.) They were able to describe its elliptical orbit with Sirius A, its fifty-year orbital period, and the fact that the star rotated on its own axis. Sirius B is invisible to the naked eye and is so difficult to observe, even through a telescope, that no known photographs were taken of it until 1970.

They also describe a third star in the Sirius system, which they called Emma Ya. In 1995, when two French astronomers published the results of a multi-year study of what was apparently a small, red dwarf star within the Sirius star system, the Dogon idea of there being a Sirius C, aka Emma Ya, was suddenly taken much more seriously. If the Dogons were correct in all of their other knowledge about Sirius, why would they not be dead on with their claims of cannabis being from Sirius? It is, after all, named after that Two Dog Star!

Think about it: The Dogons were celebrating the fifty-year orbital period of the Sirius system for thousands of years before astronomers could even detect Sirius B. How did they know this? The Dogons claim that their astronomical knowledge was given to them by the Nommo, amphibious beings sent to earth from Sirius for the benefit of mankind.

Could all of this potentially explain the astounding diversity within the cannabis gene pool? Speaking specifically to flavors, there are cannabis strains with flavors ranging from the sweetest fruit all the way to foul rotten meat (in a good way, if that is somehow possible!)-from astringent pine cleaner to chocolate to kids' vitamins. I've tasted ganja strains that mimicked every fruit on the planet, including strawberry, grape, peach, lemon, lime, plum, raspberry, blueberry, guava, blackberry, mango, cherry, orange, banana, pineapple, melons, and more. I've also tasted flavors reminiscent of just about every herb used in cooking, including, mint, basil, sage, rosemary, and thyme. This amazing variety of familiar flavors is well documented in the Cannabible series, but you may have noticed that on occasion, I find myself at a loss for words when providing tasting notes. There we enter the realm of all the outer space flavors that words do not exist for, because there are no other similar flavors found on earth, and thus no accurately descriptive words. I find that half of the really good strains out there have these other worldly flavors.

What if these strains and flavors really are from outer space? What if cannabis is a highly regarded and traded not just on our planet, but throughout the universe? I picture cannabis as a miraculous plant that grows on thousands of planets throughout the universe and is introduced to suitable planets by benevolent beings, such as the Nommo, to help "spread the love." Are you with me?

Think for yourself. Question authority.



Blaze On

- Shadith Wagonai

BobNarley

shadywagon

Bump............. any believers????????

Think for yourself. Question authority.



Blaze On

- Shadith Wagonai

BluntBender

Yeah, I believe!!! There is like a lot of space out there, like all of it. It would be selfish to think that we were the only ones that get to enjoy this tasteful and beautiful plant.

KidKush

maybe if we all get 2gether and blaze out we can fly high to space and understand completely...im with ya

wtf_

pretty nice article and story, the part about herb being from space might be a strech... maybe the name of the two has a diffrent relation but idk seems pretty cool though, shows that acient people were just as smart us mordern day people, maybe even smarter

shadywagon

BUMP..

Think for yourself. Question authority.



Blaze On

- Shadith Wagonai