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[Messele Zewdie Ejeta]

Over the last three decades, I have tried to be guided by scientific thinking processes.

It is in this process of scientific thinking that I learned about Saros cycle.

I have heard an Astronomer assert that Astronomy is the origin of science.

I grew up among an extended family that practiced both traditional spirituality and Orthodox Christianity.

Until recently, I haven’t seriously thought about the name of the deity that used to be celebrated annually among the extended family.

Trying to understand the meaning of the deity made me seriously think about it. My initial thought is that it means a Prophet.

It appears to me the tradition might have its roots in the tradition before the Exodus.

Years ago, I met a few times with an Ethiopian man from Borana who was believed to be a keeper of traditional knowledge.

Traditional knowledge is not easy to interpret in scientific terms. Nonetheless, I have learned a few things from him that i think to be valid. One that stood out for me was when he said a human lies, a star doesn’t lie.

At one community meeting, he was asked about Sirius Mystery. If I understood him correctly, he was hesitant to answer it by taking the question seriously.

He was traveling to meet with the people of Maya when I first met him here in the U.S.

I am learned enough to think that some dreams I have been seeing lately that become valid in time or that reveal the circumstances of past events in new lights are mysterious.

At the risk of being proven wrong, they have led me to think that the idea of an Almighty might be a force like the Universal Gravitation that remains to be uncovered or stays to be revered. I would rather be proven wrong by anyone in the world than not try to understand what could possibly bring together Astronomy, science, and spirituality.

I didn’t know until earlier this month that the Maya people view “history as cyclical rather than linear.” I was humbled after reading their cyclical rather than linear teaching that past events provide a basis for predicting future fate.

I am humbled because I have suggested in a peer reviewed journal paper that future is a human construct of a moment in space and that the cyclical nature of the moment in space can be used for predicting meteorological variability.

I uncovered this novel idea in the course of studying the impact of climate change on water resources. It was an academic exercise of attributing climate change to natural variability and manmade causes.

Two peer reviewed journal papers, one published in the U.S. and the other published in the U.K., have come out of the academic exercise.

Interested researchers who have the resources to continue this academic exercise may find these peer reviewed journal papers, which are linked below, helpful.

Step toward a Deterministic Solution of the Paradoxical Hydrological Stationarity Problem

Validation of predicted meteorological drought in California using analogous orbital geometries