Space travel of the Dogon

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Beginning in 1931, a group of French ethnographers, led by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlin, conducted research on the customs and beliefs of the African Dogon people living in Western Sudan (the modern Republic of Mali).

The result of thirty years of work was a monograph on Dogon mythology "The Pale Fox", the first volume of which was published in Paris in 1965. Three years later, the famous English astronomer W. R. Drake drew attention to the Dogon's exact knowledge of the parameters of the star Sirius.

Not even having their own written language, the Dogon in their cosmogonic myths divide celestial bodies into planets, stars and satellites. The stars are called tolo, the planets are called tolo gonose (stars that move), and satellites are called tolo tonase (stars that make circles).

The accuracy and clarity of these ideas is amazing, especially when you consider that we are talking about a people leading a primitive lifestyle. Among the Dogons, only olubaru priests are allowed to study ancient myths, members of a secret “society of masks” who know a special language “sigi so” (“Sirius's language”) … In ordinary communication, the Dogons speak “dogo so” - the language of the Dogon.

The Dogon consider Sirius a triple star, consisting of the main star "sigi tolo" and "stars" po tolo "and" emme ya tolo.”The period of their revolution around the main star - 50 Earth years (modern data: 49, 9 years) Moreover, their ancient myths contain information that the "po tolo" star is small in size with enormous weight and density.

"It is the smallest and heaviest of all the stars and consists of a metal called" sagolu ", which is shinier than iron and so heavy that all earthly beings united could not lift even a particle …" Elsewhere the myth specifies: " a sagolu particle "the size of a grain of millet weighs as much as 480 donkey packs" (ie about 35 tons).

It was established by the methods of modern science that Sirius is indeed a double star, and its second component is the white dwarf Sirius B, the density of which can reach 50 tons per cubic centimeter …

Astronomers from different countries are today conducting a scientific discussion about the presence of a third component in this stellar system - the star Sirius C, about which several astronomers even stated that they "observed it through a telescope" … And although it has not yet been possible to see Sirius C again, a number of experts see in the irregularities of the trajectory of Sirius A, the influence of the third star.

An interesting remark was made on this matter by the researcher of Dogon myths V. V. Rubtsov. He drew attention to the fact that the name of the god Tishtrya, who personified Sirius among the ancient Iranians, comes from the Indo-European term meaning "three stars" …

According to Dogon myths, when the star "po tolo" (Sirius B), which according to the priests has an elongated orbit, approaches the star "sigi tolo" (Sirius A), it begins to shine brighter.

Several years ago, astronomer A. V. Arkhipov, in order to verify this statement, compared the data of measurements of the brightness of this star over a century and a half. The scientist came to the conclusion that the brightness of Sirius really fluctuates, moreover, with a frequency of 50 years, i.e. with the period of revolution of Sirius B around Sirius A …

Moreover, when comparing these fluctuations with changes in the distance between these stars, the complete correctness of the Dogon was revealed - the closer its companion is to the main star, the brighter it is!

The Dogon also know that Saturn is surrounded by a "permanent ring", while Jupiter has four large moons, discovered by Galileo in 1610 with a telescope.

The priests of the Dogons, the keepers of the sacred "language of Sirius" ("sigi so"), explain their astronomical awareness by the fact that their ancestors in time immemorial were moved to this planet from "Po Tolo", i.e. from Sirius V.

The assertion contained in the Dogon myth of resettlement that "in the first year of human life on Earth, the star" po "flared up brightly, exploded, and then slowly faded over 240 years", suggests that the cause of the interstellar emigration of the population of Sirius B was the threat of the explosion of the star, which happened when the Dogon had already arrived on the new planet …

Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman sources indicate that Sirius, the bright blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major, looked different in antiquity than it does today. So, in Babylon he bore the name Shukkudu - "red-hot copper", Ptolemy in his "Almagest" (II century AD) places Sirius in the list of red stars, the Roman philosopher Lucius Seneca notes about two thousand years ago: "The redness of the Dog Star (ie Sirius) is deeper, Mars is softer, Jupiter does not have it at all …"

However, already in the 10th century AD, the Persian astronomer Al-Sufi described Sirius as blue-white, as we see it today. Modern scientists recognize the possibility of changes that have occurred to Sirius in a negligible space-scale period of 700-800 years …

Astronomer D. Martynov, having considered the possible mechanisms of such changes, came to the conclusion that Sirius B exploded as a semi-supernova in one of the first centuries of our era. According to the scientist, before the explosion, Sirius B was a "red giant", which determined the color of the entire Sirius system. After the explosion, it turned into a "white dwarf" - an extremely dense star the size of the Earth …

If we add to this that the Sirius explosion took place "in the first year of human life on Earth", then the migration of the Dogons from "Po Tolo" can be dated between the 2nd and 10th centuries of our era …

One of the Dogon astronomical drawings depicts the Sun and Sirius connected by a curve twisting around each of the stars, with the diameter of Sirius being greater than the diameter of the Sun.

In 1975, Marseille astronomer Eric Guerrier published a book, Essays on Dogon Cosmogony: The Ark of Nommo, in which he suggested that "this curve represents the trajectory of an interstellar flight …"

It should be noted that the Dogon myths about deep space are in many ways consistent with modern scientific views. So, for example, the Dogon know that our Galaxy, visible from the Earth as the "Milky Way", is a "spiral stellar world" and believe that there are "infinitely many" such "spiral stellar worlds" in the Universe, and it itself, although and "infinite but measurable."

According to the Dogon, the Universe is inhabited by various living creatures, and plants were the first to appear in it. For example, pumpkin and sorrel seeds "lay on the edge of the Milky Way before reaching Earth" and "sprouted in all the worlds of the Universe."

The Dogon are also convinced that "in other lands there are horned, tailed, winged, crawling people …"

Strictly speaking, Dogon myths tell about not one, but several "space travels", the first of which was made by someone named Ogo, who on his third "star voyage" ends up on Earth, where he turns into a "pale fox" - Yurugu.

In the ancient myths and drawings of the Dogons, the space "ark of Nommo" is also described, in which the ancestors of the Dogons descended from the "Sigi talo" together with everything necessary for life on Earth. The "Ark of Nommo" priests - "olubaru" depict a "basin" in the form of a basket, resembling a truncated cone, the upper plane of which is a square, and the lower one is a circle. On the sides of the cone there are stairs, on which people, animals, plants, etc. were kept during the descent to Earth.

Descending, the ark rotated, and this movement was maintained through … a nozzle. “The nozzle orifice is a long way of breathing of the ancestors,” says the myth, “descended from a height. It was their breathing that helped to rotate, to move and descend …"

The "Nommo Ark" landed after eight years of "swinging" in the sky, "throwing up a cloud of dust in an air whirlwind."

Nommo was the first to emerge from the ark, and then all the other creatures.

As a landing site, the Dogon priests name Lake Debo in Western Sudan, which is filled with water during a flood on the Niger River. On one of the islands of this lake there is a stone image of the "Nommo Ark" flying among the stars.

The innermost cosmogonic myths of the Dogon are of particular interest … "In the beginning there was Amma, the god in the form of a round egg, who rested on nothing … There was nothing besides this …"

The main element of the Dogon world is the "po" particle, which has the shape of a small grain of millet. Amma had the same form. This grain "po" "spun and radiated particles of matter in sound and light action, while remaining invisible and inaudible." In the grain "po" Amma built the entire Universe, but in order to "release the world outside" - began to rotate around its axis … The Dogons say: "Spinning and dancing, Amma created all the spiral stellar worlds of the Universe."

Eric Guerrier notes that the image of "Amma's spinning spiral vortex" can be safely applied both to an atom with an electron cloud revolving around the nucleus, and to every spiral galaxy …

Oddly enough, however, the more you get acquainted with the translation of the Dogon myths into the language of modern physics, the sooner you become a supporter of E. Gerrier's hypothesis that the Dogon have long worshiped energy!..

Here it is appropriate to cite the most intimate secret of the Dogon myths:

"Po, swirling around itself, keeps the word until the moment when Amma orders to release this word in order to convey it to all creatures. Po can turn into a terrible force the wind, but you cannot talk about it …"

E. Gerrier believes that in this part the myth directly points to the possibility of the transition of matter into energy, calculated by the formula e = ms2, discovered by A. Einstein at the beginning of the 20th century.

This point of view is supported by the myths describing the "dogon cosmic odyssey." They tell about the journey from Sirius to Earth of a creature named Ogo, and later - "Nommo's ark", with which the first people arrived. It is curious evidence of the myths that in these space travels "Dogon starships moved, driven by the wind, enclosed in grains," along …

Of interest is also the opinion of the oluburu priests that the intelligent inhabitants of Yalu ulo - that is, Although the galaxies interfere in the life of mankind on planet Earth, the "spiral stellar world"