The Sirius Mystery
The Sirius Mystery
Title of a book by Robert K. G. Temple (1972), discussing his discovery that a primitive African tribe, the Dogon of Mali in former French Sudan, apparently had been aware for centuries that the Dog Star Sirius was orbited by a white dwarf neighbor invisible to the naked eye and only recently discovered by astronomers. Temple claimed that this knowledge of the Dogon tribe was five thousand years old, that the white dwarf was known also to the ancient Egyptians in pre-dynastic times prior to 3200 B.C.E., and that the Dogon people may have partially descended from them. His idea was quickly integrated into the ancient astronaut hypothesis.
Sources:
Temple, Robert K. G. The Sirius Mystery. Folkstone, Kent, England: Bailey Brothers and Swinfen, 1972.
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