Sirius Exploring

For generations the stars have fascinated and amazed us. The story of Canus Major also known as “The Dog Star” has one such story.

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. Two French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterien recorded the legend from four Dogon priests in the 1930’s. 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, wasn’t even photographed until it was done by a large telescope in 1970.

According to the Dogon’s oral traditions, a race 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.

According to the Dogon legend, the Nommos, lived on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed on Earth in an “ark” that made a spinning descent 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 Dogon’s 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 is only 8.6 light years from Earth. 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. Orion’s 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.

According to the legend there is a third star: Sirius C, and it is around Sirius C that the home planet of the Nommos orbits. This question maybe settled, as larger and more powerful telescopes are able to look at the Sirius system.

So did alien fish-men pay a visit to ancient Earth and give the Dogon their knowledge? Or did western visitors contaminate the Dogon’s culture? Or could the Dogon’s have had ancient technical or non-technical means to find this information out? Or is the whole thing just a matter of coincidence?

One day soon we hope to export to this star system.
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