The Dogon have their own calendar according to. Sensational knowledge of the Dogon. Why do we need low ceilings?

17.12.2019

At all times, there have been a few mysterious ethnic groups on Earth, whose heritage has attracted the attention of all mankind. These are the Sumerians, ancient Egyptians, Aztecs, Mayans and little known to most of us Dogon.

These peoples are united by many things - and, in particular, by the phenomenon of their sudden appearance and equally sudden and rapid disappearance from the Earth. Especially striking examples are the Mayan people and the African Dogon tribe that has survived to this day.

Regarding the latter, scientists are currently unanimous on only one thing: no one can say exactly where the Dogon came from. Some researchers suggest that the Dogon tribe simply appeared out of nowhere; other anthropologists consider them to be a branch of Egyptian civilization, based on the similarity of some myths.

Many of us ask the eternal questions: “Who are we? From whom did they come? Where did you come from? Where are we going?" And the more humanity learns about itself and the world around it, the more difficult it becomes to answer this question. We can say that life was good for primitive people, who in response confidently pointed their finger at the sky - they say, we came from the stars.

But if you think that there are no such “optimists” left, then you are deeply mistaken. There is a small Dogon tribe on Earth, or, as scientists say, a mini-ethnic group. The tribe numbers only about 200 thousand people, and it lives in the jungle, where even at the height of the day the dense foliage barely allows sunlight to pass through.

The Dogon inhabit a small area in the bend of the Niger River (Republic of Mali, Africa). They “own” the Bandiagara plateau at the foot of Mount Gomburi, and they live in caves and primitive huts. The isolation of the tribe from the rest of the world for many centuries allowed the peace-loving Dogon to preserve their identity.

It is also remarkable that after they were accidentally “discovered” in 1931 by two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, not only ethnographers, but also astronomers showed interest in the tribe. Griaule lived here for ten years, studied everyday life, wrote down legends, and even by decision of the council of elders was allowed to be initiated into the secret rank of priest.

What shocked the scientist so much? Mud huts, dancing on stilts, fields sown with millet, ritual mass burials in caves - the most primitive culture. Even when, after the end of World War II, he published a series of articles about the Dogon in African studies magazines, they did not become a sensation. You never know what legends exist among primitive peoples.

But one day, Griaule’s articles quite by accident fell into the hands of the English astronomer McGree - and the attitude towards the Dogon changed radically. Of course, what can information about the second star of the Sirius system, Sirius B, tell an archaeologist or ethnographer? Well, if you rummage through special reference books, you can find out that it was opened... only in 1862. Before the outbreak of World War I, it was determined that it had an unusually high density and the star was classified as a “white dwarf”.

And if you delve deeper into scientific reading, you will know that spiral nebulae were sketched by Ross in the middle of the 19th century... Hubble proved in 1924 that they consist of stars. The rotation of our Galaxy was proven in 1927, and its spiral shape was proven in 1950... Very informative. After all, few people still know about this, but for some reason the Dogon are well aware, and this is not a hoax.

Historians and archaeologists unanimously claim that all the facts indicate that the tribe settled on the Bandiagara plateau, which is now also called Dogon Country, in the very early XIII century. There is a cave here, going far into the depths of the mountain, in which there are wall paintings created more than 700 years ago.

The entrance to the cave is guarded by a revered saint. He does nothing else, but only protects the entrance. The whole tribe takes care of this person, feeds him, but no one has the right to touch him or come close to the entrance, even while passing food. When he dies, another saint takes his place. So what secrets is he guarding?

The cave contains amazing drawings and grains of valuable information. For example, a drawing connecting one direct system Sirius and our Sun. In general, it would not be unusual if the image indicated only the most bright star in the sky - Sirius A.

But it should be taken into account that the Dogon tribe lives in that region of Africa where the star Sirius disappears for a long time behind the horizon and is out of sight for several months. Bright ruby red, it appears on the morning of July 23rd just above the horizon, almost due east, and rises about sixty seconds before the Sun.

So Sirius can only be seen for one moment, and then he disappears again. This is called the solar rising of Sirius. This is a rare moment when Sirius, the Sun and the Earth find themselves in a straight line in space. But this was also known to the ancient Egyptians, who specially made through holes in the thickness of the pyramids so that the bloody rising star would illuminate the altar.

But not only that, the Dogon told scientists that next to the blue giant Sirius A there are two more stars that cannot be seen in every telescope. Thus, they clearly indicated the location of the white dwarf Po Tolo - Sirius B - which, as mentioned above, was confirmed only in 1862. The Dogon have very specific information about this star.

They say it's very, very old and very small, made of what they call "the heaviest matter in the universe": 1.5 million tons per cubic inch. And they say that this small star makes a complete revolution around Sirius in “about 50 years” (the error, according to astronomers, is 0.1 year).

But how did an ancient primitive tribe obtain such accurate information about a star, the measurement of whose parameters became possible only in the 20th century?

Another proof of the phenomenal knowledge and memory of the Dogon tribe is a small drawing on the wall of the cave, which scientists for a long time did not know what to attribute to... until computers calculated the orbits of Sirius A and Sirius B.

As it turned out, this is an accurate model of the movement of one star around another in a certain period of time - from 1912 to 1990. Naturally, the Dogon themselves could not calculate this.

All Dogon rituals are tied to the 50-year cycle of Sirius B’s revolution around Sirius A. It is impossible to detect this satellite, determine its color, calculate its orbital period and density without astronomical instruments.

Even the satellites of Jupiter, which the Dogon know about, cannot be seen with the eye. There is only one way out - borrowing from another culture.

Perhaps the tribe could have obtained information about the structure of the Universe from the ancient Egyptian priests. But the ancient Egyptians could not have known anything about the explosion of Sirius B in the 2nd century AD - their civilization perished much earlier. And among the Dogon, this explosion is one of the central points of mythology. The idea of the existence of super-dense matter, “white dwarfs” in the Universe, generally refers to the most modern ideas.

But that's not all. The presence of a third small star, Sirius C, in this star system—Emme Ya, which the Dogon kept repeating—scientists established only in 1970. The tribe also knew about all the other planets in our solar system, including Neptune, Pluto and Uranus, as well as information about 226 other star systems, including spiral star systems that were discovered by astronomers later.

They knew exactly what these planets looked like when approaching them from space, which also became known to scientists only recently. And naturally, they knew that the Earth rotates around its axis and around the Sun, and completes a full revolution in 365 days, and in their calendar they divided this cycle into 12 months. They knew about the Moon, that it was waterless and dead.

The Dogon also knew about red and white blood cells, and they had all the information about human physiology that we have only recently received.

So how did the Dogon know about all these stars and their features? When the elders of the tribe 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.

And all this is captured in cave drawings. But it is known for sure that they were not made by the Dogon. They came here only three centuries ago, but the drawings are 700 years old. But it turns out that where the tribe lived before, there is a cave like this, from which you can see individual stars in the Sirius system. In addition, there is some “material evidence” in this cave.

However, despite the persistent entreaties of scientists, the aborigines have not yet discovered its location. Either there are some super-powerful astronomical instruments there, created by the Sirian civilization, or the “gods” left something there for storage in anticipation of their next visit. One can only guess about this.

According to a version of the genealogical myth, the Dogon once lived in a certain Country of Mande and are the descendants of the legendary Lebe, who, in turn, descended from the first ancestors of the Nommo. He gave birth to two sons. From the eldest of them came the Dogon tribe, and younger son became the founder of the Aru tribe.

When Lebe died, the Dogon lowered his corpse into the ground, but before leaving the Mande Country they decided to take the remains with them. But when they opened the grave, they discovered that Lebe had resurrected - there was a live snake there. The Dogons, taking with them some earth from the grave, went underground, led by a snake, and ended up in Mali.

Having become interested in the Dogon, scientists found out that, in addition to Sirius, they have knowledge in the field of molecular biology, nuclear physics and other sciences, but, naturally, they cannot take advantage of any of this. The Dogon seem to be a huge storehouse of knowledge, although it is not known; for what purposes is it intended?

And one day the sorcerer drew for scientists right on the sand a map of the starry sky, in which the star Sirius occupied a central place. What kind of memory do you need to have so that, taking someone else’s star as a starting point, you won’t mess anything up!

Yes, the volume of information stored by the Dogons can amaze not only the average person, but also scientists. For example, they know the planets Jupiter and Saturn, each of which is designated by a specific symbol. For Jupiter, this is a circle, next to which there are four smaller circles (the four largest satellites), and for Saturn, two concentric circles (they know about the existence of a ring around Saturn). Knowledge of the two largest planets solar system the tribe's lore is not limited. They also contain the most modern information and concepts about the structure of the universe.

Here are some fragments of Dogon legends, recorded in their words: “The earth rotates around itself and, in addition, passes through a large world circle, like a top that, rotating, goes in a circle... The sun rotates around its axis, as if driven by a spiral spring." And this is said by primitive people who not only could not observe the movement of the Sun, but had never even seen a spiral spring.

Also, Dogon legends say: “At the beginning of all things stood Amma, who did not rely on anything... Amma’s egg-ball was closed... When Amma broke the egg of the world and came out of it, a rotating vortex arose... As a result of this “yala” appeared (loosely translated from the Dogon language, this means the transition from the abstract to the concrete) from a spiral that rotated inside the egg and meant the future expansion of the world.”

Quite confusing. But you must agree, based on our knowledge of the structure of the Universe, this is similar to the primary Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe lasting billions of years.

How do the “information carriers” themselves explain the emergence of such knowledge in them? In response to questions from scientists, the priests showed another series of drawings that depict a flying saucer. This image is very similar to the shape we are already familiar with - a plate descending from the sky and landing on three supports.

The next picture shows the creatures inside the ship. Next, it is depicted how they make a large hole in the ground, fill it with water, get out of the ship into the water and approach the water's edge. True, they don’t look like any “little green men”.

The elders of the tribe talk about creatures resembling dolphins, that when they landed, they made a large depression in the ground, filled it with water and began to swim. Coming ashore, they spoke to the Dogon and told them that they had flown from the heavenly land of Po Tolo (Sirius B) and passed on all their knowledge.

The messengers of heaven were unusually tall and “fish by nature”: they breathed in water and therefore constantly wore transparent helmets filled with liquid. The Dogon called the newcomers “nommo,” which in the native language means “drink water.” And the people of the tribe called the day of their appearance “the day of the fish,” and the gods themselves were considered amphibious creatures.

It turns out that similar descriptions can be found among the Uros Indians living near Lake Titicaca (Peru). Legends tell of the same dolphin-like creatures that came from the stars and very quickly established close relationships with the people who lived here before the Incas. It was this connection with the “people of the sky” that, according to legend, led to the founding of the Inca Empire.

Moreover, in the Mediterranean alone, as many as twelve cultures tell a similar story. But the astronomically “advanced” mythology of the Dogon is the most striking evidence of the paleo-visit of aliens. The Dogon claimed that according to their calculations, Nommo should have returned in 2003.

Perhaps the natives lost count, or the “amphibians” never flew in or out, but at one time lived on the ground, and the “plates” served them like helicopters. You can imagine a lot of such “or” and even draw a parallel with our dolphins, but all this is still unproven.

But the fact that the Dogon tribe once stood at a higher level of development is not groundless, if only because the natives gave historians and anthropologists many interesting things. For example, tools that have not previously been found in any other isolated wild tribe on the planet, all kinds of figurines made of stone, bone and wood. It later turned out that many of these objects are at least 4000 years old!

In memory of the tall aliens, the Dogon walk on stilts

Some particularly incredulous scientists believe that missionaries who preached in Mali in the 1920s shared information with the Dogon, and the drawings, they say, although old, are just a coincidence. It's hard to argue with non-believers, but here are some facts. If the information received by the Dogon dated back to the beginning of the 20th century, then the natives would have told scientists about eight satellites of Jupiter (now 67 have already been discovered according to data from 2012), and not about four.

And the brothers in Christ could not have known at that time such details about the Sirius system or the spiral structure of the Galaxy. In addition, each astronomical fact among the Dogon is tied to certain rituals, which can be traced through relics until at least the 12th century!

German scientist Dieter Hermann calls the situation with Dogon knowledge about space a “hopeless case”: when it is impossible to clearly refute or confirm any version.

And Robert Temple, who devoted an entire book to the Dogon, concludes his research with the words: “I was able to prove that the information possessed by the natives of the Dogon tribe is of very ancient origin - it is more than 5 thousand years old and was possessed by the ancient Egyptians in the pre-dynastic period, that is, before 3200 years BC".

Dedicated to Ogotemmeli,

Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen

PREFACE

This book - small but significant - proves that the most modern scientific knowledge associated with the structure and origin of matter, with quantum theory and, possibly, with the theory of strings and torsion fields, was known in ancient times.

However, they were reflected (and are partly reflected to this day) not in mathematical formulas, but in myths and symbols.

Lad Scranton's research speaks for itself. No special knowledge is required to understand his arguments.

Since all history is written by the victors, it is sometimes difficult to even know that a struggle took place or that it is still ongoing. The winners are free to distort or ignore anything that does not support the “official” version of events, and that is exactly what they often do. Only a certain version is distributed in schools and facilities mass media. As a result, the public receives and accepts exactly what is being taught.

Sometimes it doesn't seem too important. If we do not recognize the arguments once put forward by the defenders of the theory flat earth, then we are unlikely to lose anything. However, in other situations, unquestioning acceptance of the winner's story can lead to serious and adverse consequences.

The generally accepted theory of the development of human civilization and science is one such story told by the victors. Analysts reflect on the problems of modern life related to the environment, ecology, economics, medicine, army, politics, sociology. Such problems include global warming, pollution environment, epidemics, rising oil prices, development of weapons of mass destruction, proliferation nuclear weapons, overpopulation... The list is endless. All this is familiar to us. However, in this confusion there are subtle, usually unmentioned (because it is taken for granted) calming facts.

The progress of history and the development of science constantly convince us (and we, in general, willingly believe it) that, despite all sorts of dark events, the people of the 21st century represent the most advanced, developed and highly civilized creatures that have ever inhabited planet. Neither at school nor at university were any of us taught anything that was really opposed to this opinion; The most respected and popular media do not provide alternative viewpoints or revise the firmly entrenched “histories” written by the victors, although they do publish articles on archaeology, archaeoastronomy and other disciplines dealing with the past.

However, the above does not mean that there is no other way of looking at progress. Victory is one thing, but conquering an entire territory is another. The research of “partisan scientists” has been testing the strength of official scientific knowledge almost since the middle of the 19th century, from the very moment it was accepted as dogma. Many believe that the first civilization arose only in Ancient Greece, and everything that happened before the classical Greek period or happened elsewhere was at a lower stage of development (despite the fact that the Greeks readily called themselves debtors to the ancient Egyptian culture). In general, until the middle of the 19th century, European scientists from all fields traditionally recognized that in Ancient Egypt the level scientific knowledge was higher than in Ancient Greece. Moreover, legends and myths of different nations mention advanced civilizations, long disappeared due to global catastrophe(the flood described in Old Testament, - most famous example). However, none of these stories were taken seriously official science, although some scientists have provided strong evidence for an alternative view (for example, Ignatius Donnelly in his famous book Atlantis and astronomer Norman Lockyer, who suggested that Stonehenge was an instrument for astronomical observation). Any statements on the topic that in the distant past there was a developed exact science, were vehemently denounced as heresy, suppressed, or ridiculed as fantasies.

It was only in the second half of the 20th century that “guerrilla scholars” emerged as a visible, if ununited, force—partly because those who worked in television and film did not feel obliged to adhere to academic guidelines because they were interested in income . Although alternative perspectives on a number of disciplines were often dubious and overly sensational, they began to reach and influence mass audiences.

Meanwhile, scientists accumulated serious evidence that diverged from the official doctrine. Since the publication of the book Hamlet's Mill, written by two historians of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Giorgio de Santillana and Herta von Dechend, archaeoastronomy developed into a spin-off branch in its own right, proving that advanced astronomy existed earlier than we might think. Reputable and thoroughly documented A New Look on the sacred science of Ancient Egypt, presented in the book “The Temple of Man” by R. A. Schwaller de Lubitsch, reminded scientists of the long-held belief (which took place in Europe) that it was Egypt that was the original source of ancient wisdom. In The Tao of Physics, Fridtjof Capra drew compelling parallels between ancient Vedic cosmogony and modern schtick. My own geological studies of the Great Sphinx of Giza for water and meteorological traces (with the assistance of geologist Robert M. Schoch) provided further scientific support for the hypothesis of an ancient lost civilization.

The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the number of serious and compelling contributions to this area of knowledge; Some scientists add valuable fragments to already known information, others discover completely new things. This book falls primarily into the latter category. Here it is clearly and clearly proven not only that the cosmogony of the small Dogon tribe in West Africa and the cosmogony of Ancient Egypt are essentially similar, but also that their provisions practically coincide with latest discoveries modern physics.

In other words, the same advanced science, which is now at our disposal, was known at least at the beginning of the emergence of the civilization of Ancient Egypt and turned out to be accessible to a primitive (from our point of view), remote and isolated African tribe that had no contact with Ancient Egypt (the opposite has not been proven). Scranton finds examples of the existence of the same ancient science in the most unexpected traditions, not related to the Dogon. All this evidence seems amazing and undeniable.

We have a good reason to be convinced that all the knowledge of Ancient Egypt is the legacy of an earlier (and unknown to us) culture, and therefore, information about the development of mankind must be radically revised and rethought. We are not who we think we are.

This book offers a unique perspective on the distant past and makes it possible to understand that people were once the guardians of a science no less complex than modern science. Perhaps the key to preserving our future lies in understanding the nature of this relationship.

It is difficult to imagine a more significant contribution to the development of science than Lad Scranton's research. It will be very interesting to see how this outstanding book is received.

Beginning in 1931, a group of French scientists led by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Diterlen studied the life and worldview of the Dogon, a small African people (numbering about 300 thousand people) living in the territory of what is now the Republic of Mali.

The Dogon inhabit a small area in a bend of the Niger River, where they came between the 10th and 13th centuries, bringing with them their main altar, Lebe, and their strange customs and beliefs. They “own” the Bandiagara plateau at the foot of Mount Gomburi, and they live in peculiar buildings.

The isolation of the tribe from the rest of the world for many centuries allowed the peace-loving Dogon to preserve their identity. This also characterizes their mythology.

The result of this enormous work was the book “The Pale Fox” (named after one of the most popular characters of Dogon folklore), the first volume of which was published in 1965, after the death of Professor Griaule.

In “The Pale Fox,” French scientists presented and commented verbatim on Dogon myths about the creation of the universe and the history of the human race. Not all aspects of the mythology of the peoples of Africa are open to any “outside person”. Among the Dogon, for example, myths can only be told by the Olubaru - members of the Ava (mask society) who have passed special training and those who know the special “language of Sigi” - Sigi so.

French ethnologists lived for a long time side by side with the Dogon, being on the most friendly terms with them. The kind attention shown by Professor Griol and his colleagues to the spiritual culture of this people found a response among the Dogon. By the decision of the council of patriarchs, Marcel Griaule was admitted to initiation into secret knowledge. Having presented the information received from the Dogon elders, Griol and Dieterlen honestly admitted that “they did not pose the question of how people who did not have the necessary tools managed to learn about the movement and certain characteristics of those invisible to the naked eye celestial bodies».

The most interesting aspect of the Dogon mythological system is their astronomical beliefs.

Strange, but true - the only currently known information about the explosion of Sirius B comes precisely from the Dogon. Olubara told French researchers that shortly after the appearance of people on Earth, the satellite of Sirius, the star Po, suddenly flared up, and then began to gradually dim and after 240 years became completely invisible.

It can be assumed that it was the Dogon who managed to register the explosion of Sirius B, unnoticed by astronomers from other countries. Situations arise where, as the well-known expression goes, “a riddle is explained by a mystery.” Indeed, the Dogon not only noted the very fact of the change in the brightness of Sirius, but also perfectly understood that it was not it that exploded, but its satellite, known to us as Sirius B, and to the Dogon as Po tolo, the star Po.

Back in 1950, M. Griol and J. Dieterlen in the “Journal of the Society of Africanists” drew attention to the unusual ideas of the Dogon about Sirius: this star was considered triple, the main component was called Sigi tolo, and its satellites were Po tolo and Emme ya tolo. The Dogon divide all celestial bodies into stars, planets and satellites. The former are included in the “family of stars that do not orbit (around another star)”, the latter are included in the “family of stars that rotate.” Satellites are “stars that go in circles.” The accuracy and clarity of these ideas is amazing (after all, we are talking about a people whose customs and mythology bear the stamp of ancient times). But even more mysterious is the fact that the characteristics of the star Po do not differ in any significant way from the characteristics of Sirius B, determined in our time with the help of very advanced instruments.

First of all, the star Po (Sirius B) is white, like a grain of po (fonio, a type of millet). In Dogon sanctuaries this star is symbolized by a very white stone. The orbital period of Sirius B around Sirius A is 50 years (current data is 49.9 years). This star is small in size but has enormous weight and density: “It is the smallest and heaviest of all stars.” According to the Dogon views, all things in the world consist of four basic elements - earth, water, air and fire. In Sirius B, the element “earth is replaced by metal” in all its forms and especially in the form of “sagala”. It is a metal “more brilliant than iron, and so heavy that all earthly creatures, united, could not lift even a particle.”

They know that there is another invisible star orbiting Sirius A, Emme ya tolo. According to the Dogon, it is larger than Sirius B, four times lighter, moves along a higher trajectory and is surrounded by two of its own satellites.

Dogon myths testified not only to the properties and trajectory of the Sirius satellite, invisible to the naked eye, but also to the four largest satellites of Jupiter, spiral galaxies and many other astronomical realities that became known to modern science only relatively recently. Myths also told about the arrival on Earth in a “spinning ark” of creatures somehow connected with the Sirius star system and the appearance of the first people on Earth.

One of them says that people were transported to Earth spaceships- “heavenly arks from the planet whose sun was the star Sirius B before its explosion.” Descending, the ark “described a double spiral, reflecting with its movement the course of life in that vortex that revived its very first particle.” It is known that the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule, the carrier of our genetic code, has a double helix shape.

Dogon legends tell of two stages space travel. The first is associated with the arrival on Earth of the “Pale Fox” Yurugu, who symbolizes drought, darkness, disorder and is the opposite of moisture, light, order in the person of Nommo.

A little later, another “ark” brought Nommo to our planet (depicted as a half-man, half-snake with flexible limbs without joints, red eyes, and a forked tongue), along with whom the ancestors of people arrived. The ark flew to Earth through a special temporary “window” in the sky that Amma created. This ark landed after eight years of “swinging” in the sky, “raising air vortex a cloud of dust,” the heavenly space “with four corners” turned into the earthly space “with four sides.”

Nommo was the first to leave the ark, and then all the other creatures. After this, Amma raised the chain supporting the ark into the sky and “closed” the sky.” “The people who, during the descent and at the moment of impact upon landing, saw the brilliance of Sigi Tolo, were now present at the first sunrise, which rose in the east and from that moment illuminated the universe.”

As it descended, the ark rotated, and this movement was supported by the “breath of the ancestors” through... the nozzle (la tuyere - in French translation). “The opening of the nozzle is the great path of the breath of the ancestors who descended from the sky. It was their breath that helped rotate, move and descend.”

Descriptions and images of this ark are very diverse. Most often it is represented in the form of a “pelvis” basket, resembling a truncated cone, the upper plane of which is a square and the lower plane is a circle. On the sides of the cone there are ladders on which people, animals, plants, etc. were held during descent.

That means they are aliens. It seems that everything converges: the primitive people have knowledge about the cosmos that is many times greater than their own cognitive abilities, and partly the level of knowledge of modern science.

Perhaps the Dogon borrowed their knowledge from modern European civilization? But this assumption faces significant difficulties. First of all, the star Po (Sirius B) plays a central role in Dogon mythology and is a symbol of all creation. But Sirius B was discovered in 1862, and its unusually high density was determined only before the outbreak of the First World War. Can an entire people base its mythology only on recent borrowings? Let us take into account that knowledge about space is quite naturally included in the system of this mythology, and it is not at all a systematic course in presenting views on the structure of the universe. This is precisely mythology, and a very archaic one at that. Suffice it to say that the heavenly bodies, so accurately described by the Olubaru, arise from parts of the body and drops of blood of the “divine sacrifice.” This is what surprises most of all: the organic combination of seemingly incompatible things, very primitive religious ideas and accurate, deep scientific knowledge.

The following is also interesting: both the explosion of Sirius B and the presence of a second satellite for Sirius to this day appear only in the hypotheses of specialist astronomers. Does this mean that the Dogon “borrow” hypotheses?

The "missionary" hypothesis was put forward. Indeed, missionaries from the Catholic organization “White Fathers” did a lot of work in Africa. But a missionary preaching views on the structure of the universe, including descriptions of the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the Sirius system and spiral galaxies, looks, to put it mildly, strange.

Scientific debate about the existence of a second moon of Sirius began in the 1920s, and modern science has still not reached a consensus on this issue. If it is established that the second satellite of Sirius does not exist, the chances of the “missionary hypothesis” will increase sharply, since it will become obvious that the Dogon knowledge is tied specifically to the 20s of the 20th century, and not to the story of the aliens.

There was even a “saving” version that the Dogon had some kind of telescope like a round pool with uniformly rotating water, the mirror of which had a concave shape due to rotation and thereby served as an analogue of the mirror of a reflecting telescope - a fantastic hypothesis, of course. But, even if we accept it, how much will it explain in the cosmic revelations of the Dogon? The Dogon also know about the rotation of Sirius B around its axis, and that Milky Way is a spiral star system. This knowledge could not be born from simply contemplating the sky through a telescope, no matter how powerful. This knowledge negates not only the speculation about the “Dogon telescope,” but also the assumption that the Dogon ancestors could have inherited their astronomical knowledge from the ancient Egyptian priests, since the Egyptian priests were clearly not able to master such knowledge.

However, there is still a lot of uncertainty in Dogon mythology. German astronomer Dieter Hermann called the situation with Dogon knowledge about space a “hopeless case.” However, everything secret will someday become clear.

Materials from the article “Sirius, which we do not know,” published in the journal “Technology of Youth” were used. Authors: Vladimir Rubtsov and Yuri Morozov

These peoples are united by many things - and, in particular, by the phenomenon of their sudden appearance and equally sudden and rapid disappearance from the Earth. Particularly striking examples are the Mayan people and the African Dogon tribe, which has survived to this day.

Many of us ask the eternal questions: “Who are we? From whom did they come?

Where did you come from? Where are we going?" And the more humanity learns about itself and the world around it, the more difficult it becomes to answer this question. We can say that life was good for primitive people, who in response confidently pointed their finger at the sky - they say, we came from the stars.

Historians and archaeologists unanimously claim that all the facts indicate that the tribe settled on the Bandiagara plateau, which is now also called Dogon Country, at the very beginning of the 13th century. There is a cave here, going far into the depths of the mountain, in which there are wall paintings created more than 700 years ago.

The cave contains amazing drawings and grains of valuable information. For example, a drawing connecting one direct system Sirius and our Sun. In general, there would be nothing unusual if the image pointed only to the brightest star in the sky - Sirius A.

But not only that, the Dogon told scientists that next to the blue giant Sirius A there are two more stars that cannot be seen in every telescope. Thus, they clearly indicated the location of the Po Tolo white dwarf - Sirius B - which, as mentioned above, was confirmed only in 1862. The Dogon have very specific information about this star.

But how did an ancient primitive tribe obtain such accurate information about a star, the measurement of whose parameters became possible only in the 20th century?

As it turned out, this is an accurate model of the movement of one star around another in a certain period of time - from 1912 to 1990. Naturally, the Dogon themselves could not calculate this.

Even the satellites of Jupiter, which the Dogon know about, cannot be seen with the eye. There is only one way out - borrowing from another culture.

But that's not all. The presence of a third small star, Sirius C, in this star system - Emme Ya, which the Dogon kept repeating - scientists established only in 1970. The tribe also knew about all the other planets in our solar system, including Neptune, Pluto and Uranus, as well as information about 226 other star systems, including spiral star systems that were discovered by astronomers later.

The Dogon also knew about red and white blood cells, and they had all the information about human physiology that we have only recently received.

When Lebe died, the Dogon lowered his corpse into the ground, but before leaving the Mande Country they decided to take the remains with them. But when they opened the grave, they discovered that Lebe had resurrected - there was a living snake there. The Dogons, taking with them some earth from the grave, went underground, led by a snake, and ended up in Mali.

Having become interested in the Dogon, scientists found out that, in addition to Sirius, they have knowledge in the field of molecular biology, nuclear physics and other sciences, but, naturally, they cannot use any of this. The Dogon seem to be a huge storehouse of knowledge, although it is not known; for what purposes is it intended?

Yes, the volume of information stored by the Dogons can amaze not only the average person, but also scientists. For example, they know the planets Jupiter and Saturn, each of which is designated by a specific symbol. For Jupiter, this is a circle, next to which there are four smaller circles (the four largest satellites), and for Saturn, two concentric circles (they know about the existence of a ring around Saturn). The tribe’s legends are not limited to knowledge of the two largest planets in the solar system. They also contain the most modern information and concepts about the structure of the universe.

Quite confusing. But you must agree, based on our knowledge of the structure of the Universe, this is similar to the primary Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe lasting billions of years.

The next picture is of the creatures inside the ship. Next, it is depicted how they make a large hole in the ground, fill it with water, get out of the ship into the water and approach the water's edge. True, they don’t look like any “little green men”.

The Dogon claimed that according to their calculations, Nommo should have returned in 2003.

In memory of the tall aliens, the Dogon walk on stilts

German scientist Dieter Hermann calls the situation with Dogon knowledge about space a “hopeless case”: when it is impossible to clearly refute or confirm any version.

The Dogon are a small African people, traditionally engaged in agriculture and living on the lands of the Republic of Mali, in the remote mountainous area of Bandiagara. According to Dogon legends, their ancestors came to X-XI centuries from the upper reaches of the Niger River, from the country of Manden, which is in Sudan. They displaced the population that had previously lived in Bandiagara, adopting much of its culture and possibly adopting its language.

The Dogons were isolated from the whole world for a long time and therefore retained an archaic way of life, almost the same as their ancestors led in the Stone Age. Despite the adoption of Islam by a significant part of the Dogon since the mid-19th century, and over time the adoption by a smaller part of the people of Christianity, the Dogon have retained ancient beliefs, including primitive knowledge of nature combined with mysterious astronomical information that has amazed modern scientists. The cosmogonic ideas of this people surprisingly resonate with the data of science of our time.

Among European scientists, the French ethnographer Marcel Griaule showed interest in the life of the Dogon in the 1930s. He lived among them for several years, learned their language and customs. He was even lucky enough to participate in the holiday celebrated by the Dogon once every 50 years. For this holiday, the Dogon make special masks that are carefully preserved by subsequent generations.

When Griaule returned to this tribe in 1946, the council of elders and priests decided to introduce him to the circle of initiates and reveal to the scientist the secret knowledge of the people - the legend of the creation of the world.

It must be said that these people did not have their own written language, but all important knowledge passed down by word of mouth for generations. The narration was accompanied by graphic drawings.

The mystery of the Dogon was first discussed in their research by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Diterlen, French anthropologists who studied the Dogon from 1931 to 1952, in their article “The Sudanese Sirius System,” published in 1950 in the Journal de la Société des Africanistes. It was there that information first appeared about the triple nature of Sirius in the Dogon cosmogony and the invisible stars known to them. The article only stated facts; the researchers made no attempts to somehow explain the information received. Later, another book by scientists, “The Pale Fox,” was published.

An attempt to comprehend the Dogon myths was made by Eric Guerrier in the book “Essay on the Dogon Cosmogony: The Ark of Nommo” published in 1975 and by Robert Temple in the book “The Mystery of Sirius” published in 1976. The latter tried to prove that the Dogon learned their secrets from amphibious aliens from the Sirius system, and perhaps not directly, but through Ancient Egypt. Eric Guerrier, an architect and amateur astronomer, drew attention to the fact that the Dogon cosmogonic system and their astronomical views coincided with modern scientific data and hypotheses. A fact that escaped ethnologists who were not fully knowledgeable in matters of astronomy.

The scientist’s attention was also attracted by the Dogon’s excellent knowledge of the starry sky.
The North Star and the Southern Cross are called the “Eyes of the World” by the Dogon. Alpha of the Southern Cross - "Double Eye of the World." The star is indeed double, but astronomers were convinced of this only with the help of telescopes, while the Dogon, we recall, did not have any astronomical instruments at hand.

They divide celestial bodies into stars, planets and satellites. The Dogon are well aware of the structure of the solar system. They know that the Sun rotates around its axis, and the Earth revolves around the Sun. According to the Dogon, Venus has a satellite. Actually this is not true. But in 1976, astronomers Van Flandern and Harrington put forward a hypothesis according to which Mercury was a former satellite of Venus. According to the calculations of these scientists, anomalies in the orbit of Mercury and some features of its structure indicate that approximately 400 thousand years ago it switched to an independent orbit. This hypothesis is based on precise astronomical observations and complex calculations. However, it remains a mystery how the Dogon know about this.

The Dogon know about the four moons of Jupiter and the ring around Saturn. They place planets in elliptical orbits.

But main role Among the celestial bodies, the Dogon recognize Sirius. This is clear from the name of this planet, which they call the “navel of the world.” According to their myths, Sirius is a triple star system. Modern astronomy, however, defines Sirius as a binary system. It is small in size, comparable to the Earth, but very hot star with a mass that is close to the mass of the Sun, the so-called " white dwarf" The second star makes one revolution around Sirius A in 50.4 ± 0.09 Earth years. It is with this frequency that the Dogon hold their festival of masks. They, like astronomical science today, know that around Sirius-A, which the Dogon call the star Shigu, a small but very massive satellite rotates in an elongated orbit - the “Po star,” which modern scientists call Sirius-B. The brightness of Sirius-B is 10 thousand times less than the brightness of the main star, and it can only be seen with a strong telescope. This star cannot be seen with the naked eye, and where the Dogon got such information is a matter of speculation. More mysterious is the information of this people about another satellite of Jupiter - the star Emma Ya, and in the language of science - Sirius-C, modern science not yet discovered. According to the Dogon information, this satellite has a more elongated orbit than Sirius-B, but their orbital period is the same - 50 years. In addition, according to the Dogon, as Sirius-B approaches Sirius-A, the brightness of the latter’s glow increases, which has also been confirmed by modern astronomers. This happens once every 50 years.

The Dogon believe that this Sirius-B is the heaviest star, and so heavy that all people taken together could not lift even a small piece of it. Here's the data modern astronomy, the white dwarf Sirius B consists of matter of fantastic density; one cubic centimeter of it would weigh about a ton on Earth.

The Dogon identify Sirius-B with the “grain “po”” - the “empty shell” that was formed after the “spread of things throughout the Universe.” This is the main object of the universe, giving birth to the “spiral worlds” of the Universe - galaxies.

According to modern astronomers, white dwarfs appear due to powerful explosions supernovas that were previously red giants.

One of the Dogon myths tells about just such an event - the outbreak and gradual extinction of a star in the Sirius system. It should be noted that nothing like this was noted in any other written sources of ancient civilizations.

Focusing on the 50-year cycle, the Dogon celebrate the Sigi holidays associated with the star Sirius A - Siri Tolo. But this date is celebrated not at half-century intervals, but every 60 years, and the holiday lasts for 7 years.
This is a holiday of world renewal. During Shiga, a huge "kanaga" - a wooden bird mask - is made. The masks are not destroyed at the end of the holiday, but are stored in a special place. This enabled scientists, in particular Griaule, to count the number of masks and determine that the celebrations of Sigi began around 1300 AD.

The Dogon have a cult of honoring the “Twilight Zone”, and they bury their dead in caves. Dogon cosmogony is reminiscent of both the idea of biblical creationism and the scientific theory of the “big bang”. One of their myths says: “In the beginning of all things there was only Amma - the god who did not lie on anything. Amma’s ball-egg was closed... there was nothing besides it.” Then, from this ball-egg, the world emerged in all its diversity. “The world in the bosom of Amma was still without time and without space. Time and space have become one." “When Amma broke the egg of the world and came out of it, a whirlwind arose and spun. This whirlwind that is spinning is Amma.” "Amma created an infinite number of worlds."

In general, modern scientific theory The “big bang” also describes the emergence of the world from a small compressed clot of matter with a volume of 10 cubic centimeters. About 20 billion years ago, the “big bang” occurred, as a result of which our Universe began to expand. As it expanded, time and distance appeared. The universe continues to expand in our time.

According to the Dogon, our Earth is not the only inhabited place. “Spiral-shaped star worlds are inhabited worlds. Along with things, Amma, who gave the world movement and form, created all kinds of living beings.”

Dogon mythology also knows about smallest particles, from which everything around consists. “All things that Amma created have their beginning in the smallest grain. Starting from this small thing, all the things that Amma created were formed by successively adding the same elements. Amma creates all things small, like a grain “po”, then adds these grains to the already created things. As Amma connects them, the body grows larger.”

Dogon mythology also speaks of the appearance of the first people on Earth. The first alien on Earth was Ogo, one of the assistants of the supreme god Amma, who rebelled against his patron. He is one of the four sons of the first being created by the supreme god Amma - Nommo anagonno. This Ogo is a rather mischievous character. Amma tried three times to prevent Ogo from coming to Earth. But Ogo made himself a ship that moved with the help of the wind. He arrived from the star Sigi Tolo (Sirius). After him, other settlers arrived on Earth, and Ogo began to harm them. The supreme god Amma turned him into the “pale fox Yurugu.”

The next guest, who arrived already on Amma's orders, was Nommo. His mission was to populate the Earth. He arrived with people on a ship consisting of 60 compartments. People only know what was contained in the 22 compartments of the Nommo ship. What was in the remaining compartments will become known later. This knowledge, according to the Dogon, will change people's ideas about the world.

Nommo's ship flew towards Earth through the hole in the sky that Amma had made, and swung in the sky for eight periods, "occupying the sky from horizon to horizon, like a great rainbow." It swayed from East to West, leaning now in the northern direction, now in the south. The ship hung from the sky on a copper chain, which Nommo then returned back to the sky. Lake Debbie appeared at the site where Nommo's ship landed. Along with Nommo, eight human ancestors arrived on the ship. After the landing of people and other creatures, Nommo dived into the water, from there he monitors what is happening and takes care of the people. He will appear on earth again on the “day of the word.”

In the region where the Dogon live, there is Lake Debbie and Mount Scholl, on which there is a large dolmen - a structure made of large stones. According to Dogon legend, it symbolizes the ship Nommo, which once arrived on Earth. Nearby rise three more stone structures - menhirs, symbolizing Sirius, the Sun and the Earth. Lake Debbie and these stone structures mark the landing site of space travelers.

Some scientists, in particular Guerrier, believe that the Dogon myths preserve information about their contacts with aliens that took place in ancient times. Other researchers, such as American astronomer Carl Sagan, are opponents of such views.

Then how could an African tribe have such extensive knowledge of astronomy? Perhaps the Dogon or their distant ancestors lived on the planet Sirius?
There is also a skeptical point of view on the knowledge of the Dogon. Some scientists note that the research of Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen is the only source that tells about the mysterious knowledge of the Dogon priests in the field of astronomy.

In addition, over time, it became clear that in all of Griaule’s notes on Dogon cosmogony there is not a single astronomical fact that was unknown at the time the scientist conducted his research. The modern Belgian anthropologist Walter van Beek spent 12 years among the Dogon, but stated that he had not heard from them anything similar to Griaule’s messages.

This scientist noticed that all the information was received by Griaule from only one informant named Ambara, and this fact also does not give the data received credibility. True, it is also possible that the Dogon knowledge about the mysteries of space was known only to a narrow circle of initiates, whom Griol mentions under the word “olubaru,” and Griol’s informant Ambara was precisely one of them.

Finally, a researcher on this topic, Carl Sagan, suggested that some astronomical knowledge could have been borrowed from Europeans who visited the Dogon before Griaule and Dieterlen began their research.
An opinion was also expressed about the Dogon’s independent observations of the stars: according to this version, in contemplating the starry sky they did not use any magnifying devices and made their discoveries only thanks to the visual acuity of individual people. This assumption was made in the 1980s by Soviet authors A. Arefiev and L. Fomin. However, in order to observe, for example, a star such as Sirius-B, you need to have visual acuity more than twice that available to a person, and in order to perceive this star as a separate luminary from the neighboring Sirius-A, you need to have vision four times more powerful than in a person with normal vision. The first observation of Sirius B was made using a telescope only in 1862.

Skeptics also point out that the Dogon know nothing about planets such as Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Be that as it may, the question is, where did the aboriginal tribe from Central Africa get such deep, inexplicable knowledge about by modern science? heavenly bodies, remains unsolvable for now.

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