The Dogon told scientists that every fifty years a star we call Sirius (they call it differently) revolves around an "invisible star." The scientists were extremely amazed. After all, the Dogon knew from ancient times what became known only in the 19th century. The Dogon ethnologists were shown cave paintings containing an engraved ellipse with a dot at the bottom denoting an "invisible star". This star, according to their stories, makes Sirius revolve around itself in an elliptical orbit. Interestingly, two more dots were present, containing signs similar in shape to horse hooves. One stood for the "Shoemaker's planet", the other for the "Woman's planet." In addition, the Dogon told scientists that the “invisible star” is as small as the grain of the cereal grown in their area. However, this invisible star is extremely heavy. According to the Dogon, they received all this knowledge from the god Nommo. Amazing. Every fifty years, the Dogon tribe living in Mali celebrates a holiday dedicated to the passage of an invisible star through the orbit of Sirius, but not one of the Dogon saw this star. Is the very existence of this object reliable?
In 1834, the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel drew attention to the fact that Sirius does not move in a straight line, but in an undulating trajectory. The scientist suggested that an invisible object affects the orbit of Sirius. Astronomers named this object Sirius B. Somewhat later, in 1862, the American astronomer Clarke discovered it, finding out that it is a very small star in cosmic proportions, having a diameter of only 41,000 km, but having an extremely high density. Scientists call such stars white dwarfs. Moreover, the mass of Sirius B is comparable to our Sun. As a result, due to its enormous mass, Sirius B does indeed affect the trajectory of the much brighter star Sirius A. Bessel's hypothesis was fully confirmed. Sirius A is a star of the first magnitude and is included in the constellation Canis Major, located in the Southern Hemisphere. The star is the brightest in the sky and lies eight and a half million light-years from the solar system. Sirius B can only be seen with a powerful telescope. Thus, how the Dogon tribe could learn about him remains a mystery. At the same time, Sirius A makes a revolution around the center of gravity common with the white dwarf Sirius B in fifty years. It is this number, corresponding to the moment of completion of the cycle of rotation of the stars, that is significant for the Dogon. They celebrate their Sigui holiday, timed to coincide with this event. Moreover, the Dogons speak not only of these stars, but also of the planets in the Sirius system: the "Shoemaker's planet" and the "Planet of Women", claiming that they received this knowledge from their god Nommo. Modern technology has not yet been able to fix planets at such a distant distance. With whom did the Dogon communicate? There is a legend about this …
However, few people think about where the origins of modern technology could come from. It is all the more difficult to grasp the mysterious connection between the Dogon tribe and aliens from distant Sirius.