Tribe from Sirius. Dogon

Technological progress and the widespread introduction of high technologies have not at all affected the way of life of numerous African tribes inhabiting the endless tropical jungle. One of the most mysterious tribal formations is the Dogon tribe, living on the territory of the state of Mali on the banks of the full-flowing and dangerous Niger River.

At first glance, the Dogon live in caves and look like an ordinary prehistoric tribe, engaged, like thousands of years ago, in gathering and fishing. However, any of the researchers who studied the myths and beliefs of these semi-wild natives found facts indicating that the Dogon have very broad and accurate knowledge in the field of astronomy and the structure of the solar system.

The famous ethnographer Marcel Griol, who studied the habits of the peoples of West Africa in the 30s of the last century, argued that the Dogon are one of the fragments of an ancient people who lived on the territory of Sudan and Mali long before our era. Once in their settlement, Griol saw ancient rock paintings, in which, despite their primitiveness, the complex outlines of the planets and their orbits were guessed. The main festival of the tribe is Sigui, which takes place once every 50 years, when the distant planet Sirius completes a complete revolution around an unknown star.

The Dogon claim that the progenitor of all living things was the god Amma, who had the shape of a ball. As a result of the Big Bang, the continuous expansion of the ball began, which continues today. Data on the constant expansion of the Universe are also confirmed by the results of the latest research conducted with the help of powerful radio telescopes. But the Dogon knew about this back in the 19th century ...

According to the opinion of the Dogon themselves, astronomical knowledge was transferred to them by an alien god from the planet Sirius named Nommo, who descended from heaven during a powerful Cataclysm. As soon as Nommo sank to the ground, the storms, thunderstorms and explosions stopped, the door of the apparatus opened, from which the gods emerged. Interestingly, the mysterious alien gods Annunaki are often mentioned in the mythology of the Sumerians.

Who was Nommo, a stranger from another world and one of the last inhabitants of ancient Atlantis, which just disappeared as a result of a similar cataclysm? Many people think about this question, but the mystery of the Dogon and their inexplicable knowledge still remains a mystery.

Photo. The Dogon tribe in Mali are aliens from Sirius.

Photo. Ordinary dwellings of the people of the Dogon tribe.

A series of video films will help create a more complete picture of the people of the Dogon tribe in Mali. The first video in the "Magic of Adventure" series is "Children of the Pale Fox".

The second film: "Dogon - aliens from Sirius?"

Third video: The unsolved mystery of the Dogon«

For some Dogon groups, mutual understanding between which is difficult or impossible, and Bamana. French, the state language of Mali, is spoken by a few.

The total number is about 800 thousand people (2007, estimate). Mostly Muslims, traditional beliefs are preserved in a number of areas, about 10% are Christians (Catholics and Protestants).

Dogon languages

Ethno-linguistic division

According to the linguistic criterion, the Dogon are divided into several large and many small groups. Almost every Dogon village has its own linguistic features (sometimes very significant). In the table below, they are sorted by language and population. A small group of Bangan, located in the range of the northern Dogon, is separated from the latter due to the fact that, according to some modern ideas, their language is not included in the Dogon family and is considered as an isolate.

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Bandiagara ledge

The Dogon elevate themselves to the ruling groups of Ancient Mali. According to ethnogenetic legends, their ancestors, pressed by the Fulbe, came in the 12th century from the upper reaches of the Niger - from the Manden country, displacing the local population (telem or kurumba) and partially assimilating their culture and, obviously, adopting their languages. Cave sanctuaries and burial complexes in the rocky spurs of the eastern and southern Bandiagara remained from the bodies (among the inventory - ceramics, arrowheads and spears, bronze and iron bracelets, wooden sculpture, fragments of fabric, weaving, etc.). Tradition does not report direct contacts between the Dogon and the body. The connection with the Manden peoples is confirmed by the social ties of tribal groups, the proximity of art, dances, rituals, etc. In the 16th century, the Dogons were part of the early state formation Songhai, in the 16th-19th centuries (in varying degrees of involvement for different groups) - in Masina. Contacts of the Dogon with the Islamized Fulani, which began at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, led to the capture of Bandiagara by the latter by the middle of the 19th century.

traditional culture

Wooden Dogon statue, possibly an ancestor figure, 17th-18th century

The traditional culture is typical of the peoples of the Sudanese subregion of West Africa. Its study was monopolized in the middle of the 20th century by representatives of the school of M. Griol, which led to ignoring the previously established alternative views (L. Desplatne and others). Culturally, the Dogon of the plateau and foothills approaching the Niger Valley (central, western and northern Dogon) and the Dogon of the chain of mountain ledges and the Seno plain southeast of them (southern and eastern Dogon) differ culturally. The isolated position of the country of the Dogon contributed to the conservation of archaic elements of culture or secondary archaization. The main occupations are manual slash-and-burn agriculture, in the mountains - terraced, in some places - irrigation (sorghum, millet-eleusina, beans; onions are the main subject of exchange and trade). Cattle on an exchange basis of relations are pastured by the Fulbe. The Bozo Dogon are associated with a relationship of comic kinship.

The male society of Ava masks is connected with the cult of ancestors, at initiation into which (9-12 years) circumcision is performed. Female circumcision is also practiced. Processions and dances with masks are held in connection with funerals, the beginning of agricultural work, annual rituals in honor of Amma and Lebe, 60-year cult cycles, etc.

Partially preserved are the traditions of rock art (images of people and animals, geometric figures). From the 2nd half of the 19th century, under the influence of tukulers, Islam spread, from the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century - Christianity. Dogon, educated and living in cities, have a high status, occupy an influential position in politics and culture.

In modern culture

Literature

• Beaudoin G. Les Dogon du Mali. P., 1997.
• Calame-Griaule G. Ethnologie et langage: la parôle chez les Dogon. P., 1965
• Desplagnes L. Le Plateau central nigerien. P., 1907
• Griaule M. Dieu d'eau. Entretiens avec Ogotemmêli. P., 1948
• Griaule M. Masques dogons. P., 1938
• Griaule M., Dieterlen G. The Dogon of the French Sudan. 1948
• Guerrier E. La cosmogonie des Dogon. L'arche du Nommo. P., 1975
• Hochstetler, J. Lee, J. A. Durieux and E. I. K. Durieux-Boon. 2004. Sociolinguistic Survey of the Dogon language area. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-004: 187 p.
• Laude J. African Art of the Dogon: The Myths of the Cliff Dwellers. N.Y., 1973
• Palau Marti M. Les Dogons. P., 1957
• Paulme D. Organization sociale des Dogons. P., 1940
• Wanono N. & Renaudea, M. Les Dogon. P., 1996

Links

• Those who came to the Bandiagara plateau. Article from the collection "On land and at sea", 1978
• Dogon and Sirius The Skeptic's Dictionary.
• "Excerpt from The Sirius Mystery" by James Oberg.

At all times, there have been a few mysterious ethnic groups on Earth, whose heritage has riveted the attention of all mankind. These are the Sumerians, the ancient Egyptians, the Aztecs, the Mayans and the Dogon, little known to most of us.

These peoples have much in common - and, in particular, the phenomenon of their sudden appearance and the same sudden and rapid disappearance from the Earth. Particularly striking examples are the Mayan people and the Dogon African tribe that has survived to this day.

Regarding the latter, scientists are currently unanimous in only one thing: no one can say for sure where the Dogon came from. Some of the researchers suggest that the Dogon tribe appeared simply out of nowhere, other anthropologists consider them a branch of the Egyptian civilization, based on the similarity of some myths.

Many of us ask ourselves the eternal questions: “Who are we? From whom did they originate? Where did they come from? Where shall we go? And the more humanity learns about itself and the world around it, the more difficult it becomes to answer this question. We can say that primitive people lived well, who in response confidently pointed to the sky - they say, we came from the stars.

But if you think that there are no such "optimists" left, then you are deeply mistaken. There is a small Dogon tribe on Earth, or, as scientists say, a mini-ethnos. The number of the tribe is only about 200 thousand people, and it lives in such jungles, where even at the height of the day the dense foliage barely passes the sunlight.

The Dogon inhabit a small area in the bend of the Niger River (Republic of Mali, Africa). They "own" the Bandiagara Plateau at the foot of Mount Gomburi and live in caves and primitive huts. The isolation of the tribe from the rest of the world for many centuries allowed the peaceful Dogon to maintain their identity.

Remarkable is the fact that after they were accidentally “discovered” in 1931 by two French anthropologists, Marcel Griol and Germain Dieterlin, not only ethnographers, but also astronomers show interest in the tribe. Griol lived here for ten years, studied everyday life, wrote down legends, and even, by decision of the council of elders, was admitted to initiation into the secret title of priest.

What so shocked the scientist? Mud huts, dancing on stilts, fields sown with millet, ritual mass graves in caves - the most primitive culture. Even when, after the end of World War II, he published a series of articles about the Dogon in African studies magazines, they did not become a sensation. You never know what legends exist among primitive peoples.

But one day Griol's articles accidentally fell into the hands of the English astronomer McGrey - and the attitude towards the Dogon changed radically. Still, what can information about the second star of the Sirius system, Sirius B, tell an archaeologist or ethnographer? Well, if you dig into special reference books, you can find out that it was discovered ... only in 1862. Before the outbreak of the First World War, it was determined that it had an unusually high density and ranked the star in the category of "white dwarfs".

And if you delve into scientific reading, it becomes known that spiral nebulae were sketched by Ross in the middle of the 19th century ... Hubble in 1924 proved that they are composed of stars. The rotation of our Galaxy was proved in 1927, and its spiral shape - in 1950... Very informative. After all, few people still know about this, but for some reason the Dogon are well aware, and this is not a hoax.

Historians and archaeologists unanimously claim that all the facts indicate that the tribe settled on the Bandiagara plateau, which is now also called the Dogon Country, at the very beginning of the 13th century. There is a cave here, going far into the depths of the mountain, in which there are wall paintings created more than 700 years ago.

The entrance to the cave is guarded by a revered saint. He does nothing else, but only protects the entrance. The whole tribe takes care of this person, feeds him, but no one has the right to touch him or come close to the entrance, even during the transfer of food. When he dies, another saint takes his place. So what secrets does he keep?

The cave contains amazing drawings and grains of valuable information. For example, a drawing connecting the Sirius system and our Sun with one straight line. In general, it would not be unusual if the image indicated only the brightest star in the sky - Sirius A.

But it should be noted that the Dogon tribe lives in that region of Africa, where the star Sirius disappears for a long time over the horizon and is out of sight for several months. Bright ruby ​​red, it appears just above the horizon on the morning of July 23, almost due east, and rises about sixty seconds before the Sun.

So Sirius can only be seen for a moment, and then he disappears again. This is called the Sirius Sunrise. This is the rarest moment when Sirius, the Sun and the Earth find themselves in a straight line in space. But this was also known to the ancient Egyptians, who specially made through holes in the thickness of the pyramids so that the bloody rising of the star would illuminate the altar.

But not only that, the Dogon told scientists that next to the blue giant Sirius A there are two more stars that you can’t see through every telescope. So, they clearly indicated the location of the white dwarf Po Tolo - Sirius B - which, as mentioned above, was confirmed only in 1862. The Dogon have very specific information about this star.

They say it is very, very old and very small, and is made of what they call "the heaviest matter in the universe": 1.5 million tons per cubic inch. And they say that this little star makes a complete revolution around Sirius "in about 50 years" (the error, according to astronomers, is 0.1 years).

But how did an ancient primitive tribe get such accurate information about a star whose parameters became possible to measure only in the 20th century?

Another proof of the phenomenal knowledge and memory of the Dogon tribe is a small drawing on the wall of the cave, which scientists did not know what to refer to for a long time ... until the computers calculated the orbits of Sirius A and Sirius B.

As it turned out, this is an exact model of the movement of one star around another in a certain period of time - from 1912 to 1990. Naturally, the Dogon themselves could not have calculated this.

All rituals of the Dogon are tied to the 50-year cycle of circulation of Sirius B around Sirius A. It is impossible to detect this satellite, determine its color, calculate the period of revolution and density without astronomical instruments.

Even the satellites of Jupiter, which the Dogons know about, cannot be seen with the eye. There is only one way out - borrowing from another culture.

Perhaps the tribe could get information about the structure of the universe from the ancient Egyptian priests. But the ancient Egyptians could not know anything about the explosion of Sirius B in the 2nd century AD - their civilization died much earlier. And among the Dogon this explosion is one of the central points of mythology. Ideas about the existence in the Universe of superdense matter, "white dwarfs", generally belong to the most modern ideas.

But that's not all. The presence in this star system of another third small star of Sirius C - Emme Ya, which the Dogon kept talking about, was established by scientists only in 1970. The tribe was also aware of all the other planets in our solar system, including Neptune, Pluto and Uranus, as well as information about 226 other star systems, among them spiral star systems that were discovered by astronomers later.

They knew exactly how these planets look when approaching them from space, which also became known to scientists only recently. And of course, they knew that the Earth rotates around its axis and around the Sun, and completes a complete revolution in 365 days, and in their calendar they divided this cycle into 12 months. They knew about the moon, that it was waterless and dead.

The Dogon also knew about red and white blood cells, and they possessed all the information about human physiology that we have received only recently.

So how did the Dogon know about all these stars and their features? When the elders of the tribe are asked who provided their ancestors with such amazing information, they answer that it was Nommo, who at one time arrived on the "ark" just from ... the Sirius system.

And all this is captured in cave drawings. But it is known for sure that they were not made by the Dogons. They came here only three centuries ago, and the drawings are 700 years old. But it turns out that where the tribe lived before, there is a cave like this, from which you can see individual stars in the Sirius system. In addition, there are some "material evidence" in this cave.

However, despite the persistent persuasion of scientists, the natives have not yet discovered its location. Either there are some super-powerful astronomical instruments created by the civilization of Sirius, or the "gods" left something there for storage in anticipation of the next visit. One can only guess about this.

According to a variant of the genealogical myth, the Dogon once lived in a certain Mande Country and are descendants of the legendary Lebe, who, in turn, descended from the primordial nommo ancestors. He gave life to two sons. From the eldest of them came the Dogon tribe, and the youngest son became the founder of the Aru tribe.

When Lebe died, the Dogon lowered his corpse into the ground, but before leaving the Country, the Mande decided to take the remains with them. But when they opened the grave, they found that Lebe had resurrected - there was a living snake. The Dogon, taking with them some earth from the grave, went underground, led by a snake, and ended up in Mali.

Having become interested in the Dogon, the scientists found out that, in addition to Sirius, they have knowledge in the field of molecular biology, nuclear physics and other sciences, but, of course, they cannot use any of this. The Dogon seem to be a huge treasury of knowledge, however, it is not known; for what purposes intended.

And once a sorcerer drew for scientists right on the sand a map of the starry sky, in which the star Sirius occupied a central place. This is what kind of memory you need to have, so that, taking an alien star as a reference point, you don’t confuse anything!

Yes, the amount of information stored by the Dogon can amaze not only the average layman, but also scientists. For example, they know the planets Jupiter and Saturn, each of which is designated by them with a certain symbol. For Jupiter, this is a circle, next to which there are four smaller circles (the four largest satellites), and for Saturn, two concentric circles (they know about the existence of a ring around Saturn). The legends of the tribe are not limited to the knowledge of the two largest planets of the solar system. They also contain the most up-to-date information and concepts about the structure of the universe.

Here are some fragments of the Dogon legends, recorded from their words: spring." And this is said by primitive people, who not only could not observe the movements of the Sun, but also never saw a spiral spring with their eyes.

Dogon legends also say: “Amma stood at the beginning of all things, who did not lean on anything ... Amma's egg-ball was closed ... When Amma broke the egg of the world and came out of it, a rotating whirlwind arose ... As a result of this appeared "yala" (in a loose translation from the language of the Dogon, this means the transition from the abstract to the concrete) from a spiral that rotated inside the egg and meant the coming expansion of the world.

Pretty confusing. But you must admit, based on our knowledge of the structure of the Universe, it looks like the primary Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe that continues for billions of years.

How do the “information carriers” themselves explain the emergence of such knowledge in them? To the scientists' questions, the priests showed another series of drawings that depict a flying saucer. This image is very similar to the shape already familiar to us - a plate descending from the sky and landing on three pillars.

The next drawing is the creatures inside the ship. Further, it is drawn how they make a large hole in the ground, fill it with water, get out of the ship into the water and approach the water's edge. True, they do not look like any “green men”.

The elders of the tribe talk about creatures resembling dolphins, that when they landed, they made a large depression in the ground, filled it with water and began to swim. Coming ashore, they spoke to the Dogon and told them that they had flown from the heavenly earth Po Tolo (Sirius B) and passed on all the knowledge.

The heavenly messengers were unusually tall and "fish by nature": they breathed in water and therefore were constantly in transparent helmets filled with liquid. The Dogon called the newcomers "nommo", which in the language of the natives means "to drink water." And the people of the tribe called the day of their appearance "the day of the fish", and the gods themselves were considered amphibious creatures.

It turns out that similar descriptions can be found among the Uros Indians living near Lake Titicaca (Peru). Legends tell of the same dolphin-like creatures that came from the stars and very quickly established close relationships with people who lived here even before the Incas. It was this connection with the "people of the sky", according to legend, that led to the founding of the Inca Empire.

In addition, in the Mediterranean alone, as many as twelve cultures tell a similar story. But the astronomically "advanced" mythology of the Dogon is the most striking evidence of the aliens' paleovisit. The Dogon claimed that according to their calculations, Nommo should have returned in 2003.

Perhaps the natives lost count, or the "amphibians" never flew in and did not fly away, but at one time lived on the ground, and the "plates" served them like helicopters. You can fantasize a lot of such “or” and even draw a parallel with our dolphins, but all this is still unproven.

But the fact that the Dogon tribe once stood at a higher stage of development is not groundless, if only because the natives gave many interesting things to historians and anthropologists. For example, tools that have not been seen before in any other isolated wild tribe of the planet, all kinds of figurines made of stone, bone and wood. Later it turned out that many of these objects are at least 4000 years old!

In memory of the tall aliens, the Dogon walk on stilts

Some especially incredulous scholars believe that missionaries who preached in Mali in the 1920s shared information with the Dogon, and the drawings, they say, although old, are just a coincidence. It's hard to argue with unbelievers, but here are a few facts. If the information received by the Dogon dated back to the beginning of the 20th century, then the natives would have told scientists about eight satellites of Jupiter (now they have already been discovered 67 according to data from 2012), and not about four.

And the brothers in Christ could not have known at that time such details about the Sirius system or the spiral structure of the Galaxy. In addition, each astronomical fact among the Dogon is tied to certain rituals that can be traced through relics at least until the 12th century!

The German scientist Dieter Hermann calls the situation with the Dogon knowledge about space a "hopeless case": when it is impossible to unambiguously refute or confirm any version.

And Robert Temple, who devoted an entire book to the Dogon, concludes his research with the words: “I was able to prove that the information that the natives of the Dogon tribe possess is of very ancient origin - it is more than 5 thousand years old and was possessed by the ancient Egyptians in the predynastic period, that is, before 3200 BC.

Playing the role of a lingua franca for some Dogon groups, mutual understanding between which is difficult or impossible, and Bamana. French, the state language of Mali, is spoken by a few.

The total number is about 800 thousand people (2007, estimate). Mostly Muslims, traditional beliefs are preserved in a number of areas, about 10% are Christians (Catholics and Protestants).

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  According to the linguistic criterion, the Dogon are divided into several large and many small groups. Almost every Dogon village has its own linguistic features (sometimes very significant). In the table below, they are sorted by language and population. A small group of Bangan, located in the range of the northern Dogon, is separated from the latter due to the fact that, according to some modern ideas, their language is not included in the Dogon family and is considered as an isolate.

  People	Language	population	Settlement (in the territory of Mali, unless otherwise indicated)	Note
  southern Dogon
  doon	tomo-kan	178 000	168 thousand people in the southwest of Bankas, about 10 thousand people in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso
  Togo	tene-kan (togo)	92 232
  tengu	tene-kan (tengu)	67 788
  Eastern Dogon
  diamsay	diamsay	164 000	between Koro and Bumbum
  toro tegu	toro tegu	3654
  central Dogon
  tommom	tommo-so	75 852		speak dialects of the Central Dogon language
  toro (bommu)	toro-so	63 000
  don	donno-so	57 000	near Bandiagara
  Western Dogon
  mombo (colum)	mombo-so (colum-so)	24 000
  ampari	ampari	6552
  northern Dogon
  bondum (dovoy)	bondum(-house)	31 000	north of the Bandiagara plateau, the main settlement is Borko
  dogul	dogulu(-house)	20 000	northeast of Bandiagara
  tirangue (duleri)	tiranighe-diga	5292
  	tebul-ure	3500
  nanga	nanga (-lady)	3150
  yanda	yanda(-house)	2500
  will	bunoge	882
  	ana	500
  bangana	bangeri (bangime)	1512	northwest of Bandiagara	speak an isolated language
  Total		790 102

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  The Dogon elevate themselves to the ruling groups of Ancient Mali. According to ethnogenetic legends, their ancestors, pressed by the Fulbe, came in the 12th century from the upper reaches of the Niger - from the Manden country, displacing the local population (telem or kurumba) and partially assimilating their culture and, obviously, adopting their languages. Cave sanctuaries and burial complexes in the rocky spurs of the eastern and southern Bandiagara remained from the bodies (among the inventory - ceramics, arrowheads and spears, bronze and iron bracelets, wooden sculpture, fragments of fabric, weaving, etc.). Tradition does not report direct contacts between the Dogon and the body. The connection with the Manden peoples is confirmed by the social ties of tribal groups, the proximity of art, dances, rituals, etc. In the 16th century, the Dogon were part of the early state formation Songhai, in the 16th-19th centuries (in varying degrees of involvement for different groups) - in Masina. Contacts of the Dogon with the Islamized Fulani, which began at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, led to the capture of Bandiagara by the latter by the middle of the 19th century.

  traditional culture

  The traditional culture is typical of the peoples of the Sudanese subregion of West Africa. Its study was monopolized in the middle of the 20th century by representatives of the school of M. Griol, which led to ignoring the previously established alternative views (L. Desplatne and others). Culturally, the Dogon of the plateau and foothills approaching the Niger Valley (central, western and northern Dogon), and the Dogon of the chain of mountain ledges and the Seno plain southeast of them (southern and eastern Dogon) are distinguished. The isolated position of the country of the Dogon contributed to the conservation of archaic elements of culture or secondary archaization. The main occupations are manual slash-and-burn agriculture, in the mountains - terraced, in some places - irrigation (sorghum, millet-eleusina, beans; onions are the main subject of exchange and trade). Fulbe graze cattle on an exchange basis. The Bozo Dogon are associated with a relationship of comic kinship.

  In 1950, ethnologists Marcel Griol and Germain Dieterlin reported in a short article that, while studying the life of a small tribe of the Dogon, who still lives in our time in a primitive communal system, they discovered among the natives extraordinary knowledge about the distant Sirius star system. The Dogon told the researchers that in the "heavenly heights" there is a "beautiful star Sigui". Around it, according to their information, another star revolves - Po tolo. "Po" in the language of the tribe means "corn grain". Interestingly, in modern astronomical literature, this star is called the Latin word Digitaria, which also means "grain of grain." Digitaria is the heaviest star in the Sirius system, it is invisible to the human eye, and its orbital period around Sigui is 50 years. The Dogon also report that the Sirius system includes two more stars. One of them they call Emma Ya. She is larger than Digitaria, but 4 times lighter than her. Sigui's other moon is very far away from it and rotates in the opposite direction.

  Photo: The constellation Canis Major as a pattern of a dog and lines in the night sky.

  The most surprising thing is that the information available to the Dogon largely coincides with modern scientific ideas. Already in 1934, the American scientist Clark discovered the first satellite of Sirius, which later astronomers began to call Sirius-B, or Digitaria. In 1970 Sirius B was photographed. The period of its revolution around Sirius was calculated - 51 years. The diameter of the Digitaria is approximately equal to that of the earth, but its mass is unusually large. Just one teaspoon of the substance of this star has approximately the same weight as the Moon.

  

  Photo: Sanctuary of the Dogon tribe

  Until recently, scientists believed that the Sirius system consisted of only two stars: Sirius-A and Digitaria (Sirius-B). But already in 1997, the French astronomers Bonnet-Bideau and Gris suggested that Sirius-A has two more satellites: Sirius-C and Sirius-D. The components of this star system are still extremely little studied, and scientists have not yet made any final conclusions, but, according to preliminary data, Sirius-C is larger than Digitaria and several times lighter than it, and the fourth star is very far from Sirius-A. Astronomers cannot yet say with certainty whether Sirius-D is an independent star or is part of the Sirius star system. Nevertheless, information about the structure of this system, received from an African tribe, coincides unusually exactly with the latest scientific data.

  

  Photo: Dwellings of the Dogon tribe

  Dogon culture contains amazing knowledge

  It should be noted that in addition to Sirius, the Dogon also knew other stars and planets. They were well aware of the presence of moons around Jupiter and rings around Saturn. The Dogon also defined the boundaries of the Milky Way and believed, like many ancient peoples, that our solar system consists of 12 planets. It is interesting that many astronomers and astrophysicists are currently inclined to the opinion that beyond the orbit of the last planet known to us - Pluto - there is a celestial body with a large mass. It is also possible that there may be not one celestial body, but two or three different planets.

  

  Photo: Representative of the Dogon tribe

  How do the Dogon know so many details about the structure of stars and celestial bodies? There are several opinions on this matter. Some researchers believe that the knowledge of astronomy held by the primitive Dogon tribe confirms the hypothesis of scientists about paleocontact, that is, the interaction of ancient peoples with representatives of some highly developed extraterrestrial civilization, whose representatives visited the Earth millennia ago. Perhaps it was the aliens who were those "gods" and "teachers" of antiquity, about whom the legends and tales of almost all the peoples of our planet tell. Based on the legends and amazing knowledge of the Dogon, the famous astronomer Robert Temple believes that in ancient times, the inhabitants of Sirius or one of the planets included in this star system arrived on Earth. It can be assumed that, having met intelligent beings on the "blue planet", the messengers of a distant star transferred some of their knowledge to the natives of the Earth, and then departed for their world. According to Temple, it was the newcomers from Sirius who were the founders of the ancient Egyptian civilization and the first pharaohs of this state. According to another version, on our planet many millennia ago there were "their own", earthly highly developed civilizations that died as a result of global catastrophes. It is believed that the Dogon are the heirs of a great people who once possessed great knowledge. Perhaps the few representatives of a highly developed civilization who survived as a result of catastrophes assimilated with other peoples at a low stage of development, and, having transferred some knowledge to them, degraded in the prevailing historical conditions. There is no consensus among scientists regarding the information received from the Dogon. Some believe that everything stated by scientists is so incredible that it simply cannot be true. Some critics accused Griol and Dieterlen of hoax. Others stated, however, without any justification, that Sirius-B (Digitaria), and Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn can supposedly be seen with the naked eye, although it is known that the rings of Saturn, for example, were discovered only in the 17th century. Italian astronomer Cassini using a telescope. Robert Temple, in response to numerous attacks by opponents, said that he understood the critical attitude of his colleagues to this issue. After all, the knowledge of the Dogon “not only changes the traditional picture of the world, but shakes the foundations of modern science. To recognize the existence of such knowledge in a tribe living in a primitive communal system, one must have a certain courage, ”says Temple in one of his articles.

  

  Disputes about the knowledge of a small African tribe are still ongoing. Science has yet to answer the question of who and when told the Dogon about the stars of the Sirius system.

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