The mysterious and little-studied African Dogon tribe inhabits a small area in the dense jungle in the bend of the Niger River (Republic of Mali).
Even in the middle of the day, the dense foliage has difficulty letting in sunlight in this jungle. The population of the Dogon mini-ethnic group is only about 250 thousand people. And they live in such wilds that they learned about their existence only in 1931. Primitive people in one word. But here are their legends …
For example, the Dogon know the planets Jupiter and Saturn, each of which is designated for them by a certain symbol. For Jupiter, this is a circle next to which there are four smaller circles, and for Saturn, two concentric circles. 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 modern information and concepts about the structure of the universe. Here are some fragments of the Dogon legends, written down from their words.
"The earth revolves around itself and, in addition, it goes through a large world circle, like a spinning top that goes in a circle." Comments are unnecessary here. "The sun rotates on its axis, as if driven by a spiral spring." And this is said by people who not only could not observe the movement of the sun, but also never saw the spiral spring in their eyes.
But this is not enough. Dogon traditions also read as follows. “At the beginning of all things stood Amma (compare: in Plato, the demiurge was the fundamental principle that created the cosmos in its entirety), who did not rely on anything … Ama's egg-ball was closed … When Amma broke the egg of the world and left it, a spinning vortex … As a result, “yala” appeared (loosely translated from the Dogon language, this means a transition from the abstract to the concrete) from a spiral that revolved inside the egg and meant the coming expansion of the world. Confusingly enough, it's a fact. But how else can those who do not know physics, astronomy and mathematics explain, in fact, primitive people such a complex phenomenon as the primary big bang and the expansion of the universe that has continued for billions of years?
Where did the Dogons get this knowledge, if neither they nor their ancestors ever left their homes? And here Sirius comes to the rescue. The system of this star is also detailed in the Dogon mythology. Sirius - the alpha of the constellation Canis Major - is the brightest star in the earth's sky. At one time, Sirius attracted special attention of astronomers to itself by small periodic changes in brightness.
Long-term observations made it possible to establish that it essentially consists of two stars - a blue giant and a white dwarf (Sirius A and Sirius B), which revolve around a common center of gravity. And in 1970, they established the presence in this star system of another small asterisk, which was named Sirius C. So, the Dogon know about all these stars and their features.
When the Dogon 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. Scientists, interested in the Dogon, found that, in addition to Sirius, they have information about 226 more star systems! moreover, the tribe also possesses knowledge in the field of molecular biology, nuclear physics and other sciences.
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As for the Sirius system, the Dogon reported that some of its stars can be viewed from a cave. In addition, there are some "physical evidence" in this cave. However, despite the persistent persuasion of scientists, the aborigines have not yet revealed the location of the cave. Either there are some super-powerful astronomical instruments created by the civilization of Sirius, or the Sirians left something there for safekeeping in anticipation of the next visit. One can only guess about this.