Curious Info in Sirius

Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:05 pm by integrabob

Found this at a website. Stretching a bit but I found it curious.

The Dogons are a West African tribe who have known about - and worshipped - Sirius A and its Twin the invisible star Sirius B, for the past 5,000 years...

They say that approximately 5,000 years ago, Amphibious Gods came to Earth in three legged space ships from the Sirius Star System. They call the aliens Nommos.

Kind of curious Nommos...Nomads...

"Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb"

Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:20 pm by Peet-Air

Makes you wonder ...

Thu Jun 05, 2003 2:37 am by Pylon

Wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the origianl ideas used...

Thu Jun 05, 2003 2:50 am by Darkened

wouldn't be the first time religion has inspired names in games

FF (Final Fantasy) Series:
Odin: Norse God
Tiamat: Babylonian (may have been Babylonian but i'm not completely sure) Godess
Shiva: Hindu
Siren: Mermaid type creatures that lured sailors to their doom (not really a religious belief)
Ifrit: Muslim (i think) version of satan

And many more.....

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Thu Jun 05, 2003 4:02 am by Com_Trooper

You'd be surprised at the number of references like this that are subtlely incorporated into FL. It almost makes me think that some of the devs might be freemasons or something.

Thu Jun 05, 2003 4:20 am by Unpro

play diablo and you can see all those religion based name.

Nomads are actually name given to groups of people that doesn't settle down in a place for long. they tend to live a very mobile life.

Thu Jun 05, 2003 8:19 am by Heltak

Ifrits are demon like things if I remember...

Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:37 pm by freelancer starr

Just wondering if anyone saw that really old 70's show that has spock doing the voice overs? the whole show was about this. they had these really old figures carved into the rocks, and the had the bulbus heads that look like the classic 50's fish bowl space helmet.
They had some holy site that some one stands gaurd over 24/7/365.
one of those things that makes you wonder.
Oh and at the time that show was made they had only been able to see the smaller star for a few years.

Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:00 am by Sh0cku

lol, wtf....

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Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:35 am by GIVEUPTHEGOODS

heheh wtf eactly.. kinda like when Isaw the pics from the millionman lan- first I was thinking- wow that's cool.. then started lookin at the peeps- it got scary

Sat Jun 07, 2003 3:41 am by NukeIt

There are references like that in EVERY space game. You should just SEE the number of biblical references Relic/ Barking Dog stuck in the Homeworld Games. Devs always stick something in there to make you wonder.

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