The Dogon and the Sirius Mystery
The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of the country of Mali, in Western Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, in the Mopti region. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000.
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Certain researchers investigating the Dogon have reported that they seem to possess advanced astronomical knowledge, the nature and source of which have subsequently become embroiled in controversy. . .
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In 1976 Robert K. G. Temple wrote a book called The Sirius Mystery arguing that the Dogon's system reveals precise knowledge of cosmological facts only known by the development of modern astronomy, since they appear to know, from Griaule and Dieterlen's account, that Sirius is part of a binary star system, whose second star, Sirius B, a white dwarf, is however completely invisible to the human eye (just as Digitaria has the smallest grain known to the Dogon) and that it takes 50 years to complete its orbit. The existence of Sirius B had only been inferred to exist through mathematical calculations undertaken by Friedrich Bessel in 1844. Temple then argued that the Dogon's information, if traced back to ancient Egyptian sources and myth, indicates an extraterrestrial transmission of knowledge of the stars. Neither Griaule nor Dieterlen had ever made such bold claims about a putative esoteric source for the Dogon's knowledge."
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Certain researchers investigating the Dogon have reported that they seem to possess advanced astronomical knowledge, the nature and source of which have subsequently become embroiled in controversy. . .
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In 1976 Robert K. G. Temple wrote a book called The Sirius Mystery arguing that the Dogon's system reveals precise knowledge of cosmological facts only known by the development of modern astronomy, since they appear to know, from Griaule and Dieterlen's account, that Sirius is part of a binary star system, whose second star, Sirius B, a white dwarf, is however completely invisible to the human eye (just as Digitaria has the smallest grain known to the Dogon) and that it takes 50 years to complete its orbit. The existence of Sirius B had only been inferred to exist through mathematical calculations undertaken by Friedrich Bessel in 1844. Temple then argued that the Dogon's information, if traced back to ancient Egyptian sources and myth, indicates an extraterrestrial transmission of knowledge of the stars. Neither Griaule nor Dieterlen had ever made such bold claims about a putative esoteric source for the Dogon's knowledge."
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Dogon people" (accessed 11/12/2015)
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Blog Posts and Articles
- "Magazine Asks: Is It Time to Reevaluate the "Sirius Mystery"?" (Jason Colavito, 6/26/2015)
- "You Can’t Be Sirius" (Michael Heiser, 4/24/2013)
- "The Sirius Mystery" (Chris White, 10/3/2012)
- "The Sirius Mystery: You Don’t Need Columbo For This One" (Michael Heiser, 6/18/2011)
- "Seriously: The Dogon and Sirius?" (Michael Heiser, 6/11/2009)
- "Dogon Alien “Mystery” Demystified" (Above Top Secret, 1/11/2008)
Other Online Media
- "AAD Podcast – The Dogon Sirius Mystery, The Piri Reis Map, The “Face” and “Pyramids” on Mars and the Phoenix Lights" (Ancient Aliens Debunked podcast, Chris White, 10/15/2012)
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