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I understand this book has a powerful section on the symbolism of Dogon architecture. That section seems to describe a relationship between architectural space and female procreative spaces. I am particularly interested in this right now beceause I am studying the hermeneutics of empty space in architecture, music, the structure of written texts and in scientific cosmology. The understanding of emptiness as a fecundative womb-space, to adapt a style of expression from Wole Soyinka, recurs in various cultural forms from various cultures across time.

How are these spaces used in suggesting or stimulating fecundative experience, in which emptiness becomes a womb-space that enables the emergence of new phenomena?

This question is inspired partly by an essay I am writing on Soyinka's experiential, contemplative exploration in A Credo of Being and Nothingness, chapter XXXIII of The Man Died and the poem "Mahapralaya" in A Shuttle in the Crypt, of the idea of the void before creation of the cosmos which is yet the source of cosmic being.

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