Sirius Mystery and the Dogon peoples of Mali, West Africa

[sahbii]

has anyone here researched this topic?

thoughts?

[Kestrel]

Sounds Unique. Would there be any information on the internet that you could point out ?

[ptex]

Two quick links:
one from BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2754524
and another: http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/thalass2.htm

And a short description taken from the dreamscape web site:

The Sirius Mystery

The Dogon, a tribe in West Africa, are believed to be of Egyptian descent. After living in Libya for a time, they settled in Mali, West Africa, bringing with them astronomy legends dating from before 3200 BCE. In the late 1940s, four of their priests told two French anthropologists of a secret Dogon myths about the star Sirius (8.6 light years from the earth). The priests said that Sirius had a companion star that was invisible to the human eye. They also stated that the star moved in a 50-year elliptical orbit around Sirius, that it was small and incredibly heavy, and that it rotated on its axis.

All these things happen to be true. But what makes this so remarkable is that the companion star of Sirius, called Sirius B, was first photographed in 1970. While people began to suspect its existence around 1844, it was not seen through a telescope until 1862 -- and even then its great density was not known or understood until the early decades of the twentieth century. The Dogon beliefs, on the other hand, were supposedly thousands of years old.

Read on the know the rest of the mystery

I have no formed opinion about this.

[Matt]

I hope you guys read the entire BBC article... it clears everything up. There is no mystery here.