Sirius B and the 400-Year Old Dogon Artifacts that Van Beek Can't Explain
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Astronomy and the discoveries of various Sirius stars
Sirius (A) is known by astronomers to be the brightest star seen from
planet Earth. It is part of the constellation
Canis Major. It is about 8.7 light-years from Earth and is visible in
the Northern hemisphere evening sky from
about November through April. Sirius is over 20 times brighter than
our Sun.
From 1834 to 1844 some irregularities were noticed in the movement of
Sirius by F.W. Bessel. It was
supposed that Sirius must be affected by a second star, and in 1862 a
faint companion star was finally
detected by Alvan Clark, and it was named Sirius B. It is a white dwarf
that, although small and faint
(about 10,000 times dimmer than Sirius A) is is extremely dense and
heavy enough to exert influence on
Sirius A. In 1915 the first spectrum op Sirius B was obtained by
W.Adams at Mt. Wilson, which is 'all that
would have been needed to classifiy it as a white dwarf (very small,
yet very massive : one teaspoon of
Sirius B is so dense that it weighs 5 tons! Only in 1970 the first
photograph could be taken of Sirius B by
Dr. Irving W. Lendenblad of the US Naval Observatory.
The picture looks like this: (Sirius A in the middle and Sirius B in
the lower-right corner)
In 1995 two French researchers (Daniel Benest and J.L. Duvent)
published an article in Astronomy and
Astrophysics with the title Is Sirius a Triple Star?. They suggest that
there might be a third star, a Sirius C.
Two French anthropologists in the 1930's
Somewhere in the 1930's two French anthropologists (Marcel Griaule and
Germain Dieterlen) were able to
win the confidence of four Dogon priests of the Dogon people who live
in the Homburi mountains near
Timbuktu in Mali, West-Africa. The things they told these researchers
are quite out of the ordinary. That is, at
the center of their religious teachings is knowledge about a star that
is invisible to the eye, which they call Po
Tolo (Po=smallest seed known to the Dogon; Tolo=star). The priests said
that 'Po Tolo' has an elliptical orbit
around Sirius (A) and that the orbital period is 50 years (the actual
figure is 50.04 +/- 0.09 years). Po Tolo was
said to rotate on its own axis (it does). The Dogon also describe a
third star in the Sirius system, called Emme Ya
("Sorghum Female"). On top of this knowledge their worldview was
heliocentric and they knew about four
moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. How could they have known all
this?
They claim that the knowledge was given to them by a race people from
the Sirius system called the Nommos
("to make one drink") who visited Earth thousands of years ago. They
are said to have come from a planet
orbiting Sirius C. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings that
resembled mermen and mermaids. These
Nommos are said to also occur in Babylonian, Accadian, and Sumerian
myths (the sumerians god 'Oannes' is
said to be very similar to the Dogon description of Nommos). According
to the Dogon legend, the Nammos lived
on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed
on Earth in an 'ark' that made a spinning
descend to the ground with great noise and wind.
The Dogons have celebrated their customs for hundreds and hundreds of
years which can be determined
by numbering the ornate customs and relics that their leaders prepared
for their great festival held once
every 60 years. With several extant masks in various stages of decay,
researchers have determined Dogon
traditions to be well over a thousand years old.
Criticism
Although the Dogon-story is mind-boggling when it is true. Some critics
strongly doubt the validity of it all.
In response to a book ('The Sirius Mystery') written by Robert K.G.
Temple in 1977 (with a more recent version,
responding to the possible trinary nature of Sirius) astronomer Carl
Sagan said that modern knowledge of
Sirius must have come from westerners who must have talked to the Dogon
priests before the anthropologists
arrived. The priests probably incorporated these facts into their
traditions.
This, however, does not explain a 400-year old Dogon artifact that
apparently depicts the Sirius configuration
nor the ceremonies held by the Dogon since the 13th century to
celebrate the cycle of Sirius A en B. It also
doesn't explain how the Dogons knew about the super-density of Sirius
B, a fact only discovered a few years
before the anthropologists recorded the Dogon stories.
In 1992 Walter van Beek, a Dutch Professor from the University of
Utrecht, published an article in Current
Anthropology named 'Dogon Restudied'. He studied the Dogon and could
not find any evidence that they knew
Sirius was a double star. Another source (Jay Ingram) says that van
Beek found that the vast majority of
these people knew nothing about Sirius having an invisible companion.
According to Thomas Bullard, van Beek
speculates that Griaule (the French anthropologist) wished to affirm
the complexity of African religions and
questioned his informants in such a forceful leading manner that they
created new myths by confabulation.
The festivities mentioned above which take place every sixty years are
not in compliance with the 50 years
periode of Sirius B around Sirius A.
Personal Comment
While reading the 'Pleiadean Agenda', from which I took the quote on
top of the page, I first encountered the
Dogon tribe. Curious to see what is known about the possible links
between these African people and Sirius
I started to look on the internet and I collected information from
various sources. I intend to photocopy the
two scientific articles mentioned in the articles-section, so I can
have a first-hand look at these sources.
I tend to think that the Dogon-people (at least in the 1930's) knew
about Sirius B, Sirius C, four moons of Jupiter
and the rings of Saturn, not from Western scientists, but from another
source. It is rather strange to think of
beings from a Sirian C planet to have come to Earth to instruct both
the Dogon and the Egyptians, probably
somewhere around 3600 B.C., in pre-dynastic Egypt (in an article by
Jasmine Courneya I read that the Sirius
information was possessed by the Egyptians in pre-dynastic times before
3200 B.C.). This periode strongly
reminds me of something I came across in this Pleiadean agenda
concerning the Nibiru-planet. For those
who are interested in the possibility that the Nommos are actualy
beings from Nibiru, try to delve into
Nibiruan texts and the interesting Sumerian stories on Enki and Enlil.
The work of the scholar Sir Laurence
Gardner on the Sumerian texts and the Bible has some ground in common
with this possible link with the
Nibiruan Annunaki who are supposed to have come from Sirius as well. I
still don't know what to think really.
If you have interesting information to share on this topic please mail
me!
Links
Monitors from Sirius
* Sirius and Channeled information on Sirius * The mysteries of Sirius
The Dogon, the Nommos and Sirius B:
(the unnatural museum)
* The Dogon tribe (Sphinx group)
* The Dogons of Mali, West Africa
* Can Tales of Sirius be Seriously? by Jay Ingram
* The Dogon and Sirius (Skeptic's dictionary)
* The Dogon Tribe & the Dog Star Sirius
* The mysteries of Sirius
* Karl Heinz & Uwe Homann's scientific approach to the Sirius mystery
Articles
Benest, D. & Duvent, J.L. (1995) Is Sirius a Triple Star? Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 299, 621-628.
van Beek, W.E.A. (1991) Dogon Restudied Current Anthropology,32,
139-167.
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to the NASA Astrophysics Data Service:
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Go to the astrophysics abstracts query form, type "Sirius C" in the
subject
line. This will yield ~50 articles on the subject.
Hope this helps!
Robert
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Doug Weller
nom...@oannes.net says...
> The work of the scholar Sir Laurence
> Gardner on the Sumerian texts and the Bible has some ground in common
> with this possible link with the
>
He's a kook, not a scholar.
Still, some will disagree with me. Best thing is to let him speak for himself:
http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/ringlords1.html
Please remember, though, I'm serious about his genealogies, they are rubbish.
Oh yes -- the subject line -- how can anyone explain nonexistent artefacts?
Despite mention of 400 year old artefacts in the subject line and once in the
text, they appear to be just more assertions with no evidence for them. Go
ahead, though, nommo, prove me wrong. :)
Doug
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