THE DOGON & SIRIUS The Dogon are a tribe living in Mali, West Africa. According to one of their legends a race called the Nommos visited the Earth from the star Sirius thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly amphibious beings... The Dogon learned from the Nommos that there was a companion star (Sirius B) orbiting the main star. This legend supposedly goes back hundreds of years. In 1970 scientists discovered there was indeed a Sirius B, though they had suspected its existence for over a century....This led K.G. Temple to argue in his book, The Sirius Mystery, that the legend must be true and aliens visited the Dogon. In Mali, West Africa, lives a tribe of people called the Dogon. The Dogon are believed to be of Egyptian decent and their astronomical lore goes back thousands of years to 3200 BC. According to their traditions, the star Sirius has a companion star which is invisible to the human eye. This companion star has a 50 year elliptical orbit around the visible Sirius and is extremely heavy. It also rotates on its axis. This legend might be of little interest to anybody but the two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen, who recorded it from four Dogon priests in the 1930s. How did a people who lacked any kind of astronomical devices know so much about an invisible star??? The star, which scientists call Sirius B, wasnt even photographed until it was done by a large telescope in 1970! The Dogon stories explain that also According to their oral traditions, a race of people from the Sirius system called the Nommos visited Earth thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings that resembled mermen and mermaids. They also appear in Babylonian, Accadian, and Sumerian myths. The Egyptian Goddess Isis, who is sometimes depicted as a mermaid, is also linked with the star Sirius. The Nommos, according to the Dogon legend, lived on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed on Earth in an ark that made a spinning decent to the ground with great noise and wind. It was the Nommos that gave the Dogon the knowledge about Sirius B. The legend goes on to say the Nommos also furnished the Dogons with some interesting information about our own solar system: ...That the planet Jupiter has four major moons, that Saturn has rings and that the planets orbit the sun. These were all facts discovered by Westerners only after Galileo invented the telescope Sirius A is the brightest star in our sky and can easily be seen in the winter months in the northern hemisphere....Look for the constellation Orion....Orions belt are the three bright stars in a row. Follow an imaginary line through the three stars to Sirius which is just above the horizon. It is bluish in color. Sirius is only 8.6 light years from Earth...Sirius B is smaller than the planet Earth. One teaspoon of Sirius B is so dense that it weighs 5 tons
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:10:26 +0000
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