Sirius, as the "habitat" of the gods, appears in the myths and legends of the African Dogon tribe. According to their legends, they descended from the sky and taught them various crafts and arts, gave them extensive knowledge about the structure of the surrounding world, and then returned to their "home".
The astronomical discoveries of thousands of years ago by the priests of the African people of the Dogon still amaze ethnographers and paleoastronomers.
In the south of Mali, on the inaccessible Bandiagara plateau in the impenetrable jungle, a French expedition led by ethnographers Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlin in 1931 unexpectedly discovered the Dogon people. They were so interested in scientists that Griaule and his colleagues studied these amazing Africans right up to 1952. And there was something to be surprised at: living in complete isolation from the outside world, the Dogons from generation to generation for millennia passed on ancient astronomical knowledge, which at that time even modern science could only guess.
For example, astronomers still argue about the theory of the "big bang", which gave rise to the development and expansion of the Universe. And the priests in the 1930s told scientists: “At the beginning of time, the almighty Amma, the supreme deity, was in a huge rotating egg, in the center of which a tiny seed was born. When it grew and burst, the universe appeared."
But one of the most amazing discoveries of the Dogon is the information that the brightest star in the sky and in the constellation "Big Dog" Sirius is a whole system of four stars! Moreover, they call the closest satellite "Po", which means a grain of millet - a tough grain. “This star consists of an incredibly heavy, dense metal, such that all earthly beings, united, could not lift it,” they told French ethnographers. "Po" or Sirius B (stars that have "close relatives", so as not to get confused, are called by the letters of the English alphabet - A, B, C, etc.) astronomers finally not only considered only at the beginning of the twentieth century, but and found that this is a white dwarf - a superdense extinct star. Even if we assume that the Dogon had a telescope two thousand years ago, how could they know that they were observing a "heavy star"?
Who was the Dogon teacher? Judging by their myths, they are aliens from this "dog star". It was they who told the savages about the moons of Jupiter, the spiral structure of the Milky Way, about the rings of Saturn and many other interesting things. So one of the Dogon myths reminds one of the famous biblical stories that were passed from mouth to mouth long before the appearance of the Bible. This is a story that a certain god Nommo flew from Sirius to Earth in Africa several thousand years ago with an ark full of various animals and plants, which resembles a much later story about Noah's ark.
Here is what we read in Griaule's notes: “The Dogons tell of three landings of the 'angel' Oho from the constellation Sirius. Moreover, the first arrival cannot even be called a landing on the surface of the planet, since it ended with the transformation of Oho's ark into … Earth. For his second space trip, Ogo built a much smaller ark. As a thrust for him, he used the grain "po" - in the language of the Dogon it means the grain of millet, and in a broader interpretation "po" is the smallest particle of matter, that is, an atom. In other words, Ogo's second ship was atomic-powered. The Dogons also associate a whole story with this second visit, which, in combination with the rock paintings of their ancestors, can be interpreted as the basic principles of the launch and landing of spaceships on the surface of celestial bodies. On the third landing, Ogo's ship was wrecked.
After that came the era of another "angel" Nommo, whose task was to populate the Earth with people. Nommo built an ark more complex than the ships of the Ogo, consisting of two parts and divided into 60 compartments. In these compartments, Nommo placed all the animals and plants that were to reproduce on Earth. And besides, there were "four pairs of twins, that is, eight Ancestors" in the ark. They looked like amphibians - half-humans - half-snakes with flexible limbs without joints, red eyes and a forked tongue.
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Then the ark of Nommo began to descend to Earth on a "copper chain". However, the landing was not very successful, as "the ark slipped in the mud," and the hole it made on the surface of the earth was filled with water, due to which Lake Debb was formed, which is still on the land of the Dogon.
The foot of Nommo, who set foot on Earth when he left the ark, left a trace of a copper sandal. After him, the creatures in the ark left only the first two compartments out of 60. After that, the ark was lifted back into heaven with the same "copper chain". Why the crew did not empty all the compartments is unknown. And what was in them - too. It is only obvious that Nommo flew from Sirius with the aim of populating the Earth, and it was in Africa."
Recent paleontological studies confirm this myth: indeed, the first people appeared on the Black Continent. The murals in the temples of the Dogon have also been preserved: the trajectory of interstellar flight is a curved line that wraps around the constellation Sirius and the Earth.
Maybe these myths explain the mystery of the origin of life on our planet?