If a European had visited the Dogon in the 1920's and 1930's, conversation would likely have turned to astronomical matters, including Sirius, the brightest star in the sky and the center of Dogon mythology. Griaule, Marcel. Temples In 1991, Van Beek led a team of anthropologists to Mali and declared that they found absolutely no trace of the detailed Sirius lore reported by the French anthropologists. Classical mythology has been a Rorschach test into which people have projected nearly any notion that appealed to them. The Dogon. In 1967, Temple began work on the thesis that became The Sirius Mystery. At the latitude of Egypt, over distances of several hundred kilometers, planetary curvature introduces distortions only on the order of fractions of kilometers, not the tens of kilometers worth of inaccuracies I found in Temple's claim. the sky and the center of Dogon mythology. Liam is the author of Urban Astronomy and is a Senior Scientist for Skeptic. Laird Scranton makes it clear that he ruled out this possibility in this interview. 139-167. Copyright 19922023. In this weeks eSkeptic, Liam McDaid examines these claims. For example, he claims that the Dogon have a drawing like the one in Figure 1. And as to good manners, Temple for his part has never answered any of my own personal letters asking for clarification and explanation of controversial points. traditional interest in the sky and astronomical phenomena. As the brightest star in the sky it was known and worshiped by ancient civilizations. [2][1] The book was first published by St. Martin's Press in 1976. To quote Ancient Mysteries: While Temple, following Griaule, assumes that to polo is the invisible star Sirius B, the Dogon themselves, as reported by Griaule, say something quite different. To quote the Dogon: When Digitaria (to polo) is close to Sirius, the latter becomes brighter; when it is at its most distant from Sirius, Digitaria gives off a twinkling effect, suggesting several stars to the observer. This description of a very visible effect causes James and Thorpe to wonder as anyone reading this should do whether to polo is therefore an ordinary star near Sirius, not an invisible companion, as Griaule and Temple suggest. The brightest star in the sky is Sirius, now called Sirius A. The only mystery is how anyone could take seriously either the notion of by Liam McDaid. Did Oberg? Griaule and Dieterlen first described their findings in an article published in French in 1950, but they included no comment about how extraordinary the Dogon knowledge of the invisible companions was. Temple offered another line of reasoning. The Nommos descended from the sky in a vessel accompanied by fire and thunder. by Liam McDaid. <> To be specific they sound like the kinds of astronomical conclusions one might draw from studying the heavens through a small portable telescope. Of those websites, over 400 had been updated within the last three months. Carl Sagan agreed with Temple that the Dogon could not have acquired (Photo by John and Keturah. He also gives public talks on astronomy and related fringe topics to international audiences. [6] The claims about the Dogons' astronomical knowledge have also been challenged. Second, while it is difficult to obtain precise locations of many archeological sites referred to in The Sirius Mystery, Temple himself shows a map that gives the location of Behdet (31.23 degE, 31.50 degN) and Thebes (32.63 degE, 25.70 degN). If a European had visited the Dogon in the 1920's and 1930's, conversation would likely have turned to astronomical matters, including Sirius, the brightest star in the sky and the center of Dogon mythology. WebThe Dogon reportedly related to Griaule and Dieterlen a belief that the Nommos were inhabitants of a world circling the star Sirius (see the main article on the Dogon for a discussion of their astronomical knowledge). terrestrial rather than extraterrestrial. (And presumably, that the Egyptians then located their river deltas, eases, and river ports deliberately on geometric rather than purely geographical grounds, I'm tempted to ask?) He allegedly found the distances "to be nearly equal to one another" -- although no quantitative definition of "nearly equal" was ever offered. Noah Brosch explained in his book Sirius Matters that cultural transfer could have taken place between 19th century French astronomers and Dogon tribe members during the observations of the solar eclipse on 16 April 1893. It was very unlikely that the Dogon had learned of this stars existence from Westerners prior to the visit by Griaule and Dieterlen. The legend of the Dogons astronomical precociousness first appeared on the radar in the 1970s. You dont have to watch too many Fantasy Channel (formerly known as the History Channel) specials on ancient astronauts before youll be told about the primitive African Dogon of Mali and their advanced astronomical knowledge bestowed, of course, by extraterrestrials. Hmm, The Cardiff Giant, one of the most celebrated hoaxes in American history, on display at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown, NY. ", Temple replied in Fate: "The pattern published in my book was drawn by a professional cartographer who earns his living by drawing reliable maps for an international corporation." A must for every bookshelf.ORDER the book, It seems clear that the Dogon did indeed get their information from other cultures. WebThe star Sirius is certainly no stranger to mysteries. If a European had visited the Dogon in the 1920's and 1930's, conversation would likely have turned to astronomical matters, including Sirius, the brightest star in the sky and the center of Dogon mythology. Temple has made very few verifiable assertions about mythology (and The Sirius Mystery is overwhelmingly about ancient myths, not about the Dogons or modern astronomy). Some pseudosciences such as homeopathy and free energy never die. The former study also concluded that while a triple system for Sirius could not be fully eliminated, the probability was low. I disagree wit deeee72. Furthermore, most Dogon symbology already has multiple levels of meaning; the sketches used to illustrate the Sirius secrets are also used in puberty ceremonies. Although Temple fails to prove its antiquity, the evidence for the recent acquisition of the information is still entirely circumstantial. I disagree. [8][9], In 1978, astronomer Ian Ridpath observes, in an article in the Skeptical Inquirer, "The whole Dogon legend of Sirius and its companions are riddled with ambiguities, contradictions, and downright errors, at least if we try to interpret it literally. (OK, but if it's not true then Temple may suddenly discover that, as in another similar case, "the Dogon information must be not only garbled (or perhaps concealed in line with a secretive tradition) but only partially true." Temples solution referred to legends of a mythical creature, the god Oannes, who might have been an extraterrestrial, described as descending to Earth from the stars to bring civilising wisdom to the Dogon forefathers. "Lecture 1st Beings of this type would be a bit like mermaids and mermen. Perhaps the 'sirens' are, figuratively, a chorus of mermaids recalled from earlier times.They are called in Greek Seiren.It is Modern astronomers have discovered the remains of the supernova Vela-X in a constellation which would have been visible in the low southern sky from Sumer. Pseudoarchaeology book by Robert K. G. Temple, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Sirius_Mystery&oldid=1135262588, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 23 January 2023, at 16:12. 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According to the Dogon priests, Sirius is orbited by a tiny secret star that they refer to as 'po', which traces an elliptical path around Sirius taking 50 years to The Stone Age storytellers speak by their campfires of other people on other planets and of other mysteries. A revised edition was published in 1998 with the new subtitle New scientific Readers of Skeptic are not so sanguine. Paranormal, ed. It seems likely that we will never know for sure. She claimed an alien starship commander had originally shown it to her. For instance, the anthropologist Walter Van Beek, who studied the Dogon after Griaule and Dieterlen, found no evidence that the Dogon considered Sirius to be a double star and/or that astronomy was particularly important in their belief system. Ideas originally published in 1948, reprint (Oxford University Press 1997). extremely dense and has a fifty-year orbit. The antiquity of the Dogon astronomy is not so obvious as ancient astronaut enthusiasts claim but neither has it been disproved. The Dogon have a traditional interest in the sky and astronomical phenomena. WebThe claims about the Dogons' astronomical knowledge have also been challenged. Even in the most optimistic reading of this tale, the Dogon know no more than we knew about the Solar System and nearby stars in the 1930s, which is about the time that Griaule and Deiterlen first interacted with them. Seriously: The Dogon and Sirius? claims about the antiquity of this information or of a connection with In September 1980, Dr. Philip C. Steffey did an in-depth analysis of Dogon astronomical traditions in "Some Serious Astronomy in the 'Sirius Mystery,' " which criticized Temple's book as "inadequate and full of factual errors and misrepresentation of critical material. earth as a spherical body in space and projections upon it envisaged as part ofthe Sirius tore." based his account on an interview with one person, Ambara, and an complete diagram that the Dogon showed to the French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, who were the original Myths and legends that are passed through generations are thousands of years old. "He sent me the manuscript which I found unreadable. by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano. He was told that fishlike creatures called the Nommo had come to Earth from Sirius to civilizes its people. 2000. For instance, the anthropologist Walter Van Beek, who studied the Dogon after Griaule and Dieterlen, found no evidence that the Dogon considered Sirius to be a double star and/or that astronomy was particularly important in their belief system. Figure 2. Nigel Appleby whose book Hall of the Gods was withdrawn from publication has admitted to being tremendously influenced by Temples Sirius Mystery. Some of this information has been selectively interpreted by Temple to support his claims. Meanwhile the Dogon myths continue to baffle investigators. But it is an unfortunate tendency for certain reviewers to wish to try and appear clever at the expense of accuracy, honesty, objectivity, fairness, or even decent manners, by dropping any standards at all in their headlong assaults on authors using only the tools of distortion, dishonesty, and insults. 1999. The tribe has a periodic Sirius festival called the "Segui" ceremony; each celebration lasts several years (the last was in 1968-72.) The Nommos descended from the sky in a vessel accompanied by fire and thunder. A Search for Faint Companions to Nearby Stars Using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2,. But now, in another recent publication Ancient Mysteries by Peter James and Nick Thorpe this mystery is also uncloaked as a hoax or a lie perpetrated by Griaule. for some unknown reason from a planet orbiting In his 1998 revised edition, Temple was quick to point out the new discussions in scientific circles about the possible existence of Sirius C, which seemed to make Griaules claims even more spectacular and accurate. The proof is supplied by (the Odyssey), where Helios is said to possess 7 herds of 50 cows each and 7 herds of 50 sheep, a transparent allegory of the days and nights of the year.") Temple considers alternative possibilities other than alien contact, such as a very ancient, advanced, and lost civilization that was behind the sudden appearance of advanced civilization in both Egypt and Sumer. S]V',H79aD>1 Q@d(FOY;"36y0Z{VXEJwOx._tto}#&i|HR-i4 There are innocent available explanations: typographical error or miscopied notes, for example. The Dogon beliefs about Jupiter and Saturn sound familiar too. Zeta Reticuli 2 (with about the same temperature and mass as the Sun) is another candidate. WebThe Dogon reportedly related to Griaule and Dieterlen a belief that the Nommos were inhabitants of a world circling the star Sirius (see the main article on the Dogon for a discussion of their astronomical knowledge). Oberg also says that the Dogon were not an isolated tribe and that a member might have acquired knowledge about Sirius B while abroad and later passed it on to the tribe. ch. But Fishs map used an arbitrary viewpoint in space. [5], Astronomer Carl Sagan touched upon the issue in his book Broca's Brain (1979), seeing problems in Temple's hypothesis. The biggest challenge to Griaule, however, came from anthropologist Walter Van Beek. informed the Dogon of Sirius B or "he misinterpreted their references Strangely, ancient records explicitly list Sirius as one of six "red stars." Whatever their place in the search for extraterrestrial contact, the Dogon myths are certainly odd. Clearly the Dogons (in common with many other cultures) were fascinated by Sirius, probably because its position in the sky was crucial to successful agriculture (it's the only star they have a name for.) What is interesting is that the Dogon knew about Sirius and its triple star system way before modern science found out its existence. Damanhur is 521.0 km from Siwa and 625.9 km from Thebes, a deviation of 20%. In 1977 two radio astronomers were interested enough in the Sirius mystery to direct their telescopes at the star system in hopes of picking up any artificial radio signals. The Sirius mystery, though, remains of great interest to many researchers today. things. Concludes Sagan, "There are too many loopholes, too many alternate explanations for such a myth to provide reliable evidence of past extraterrestrial contact. civilization. Feature Articles Dogon shame Did ancient gods from the Sirius star system visit an African tribe 5,000 years ago? The assyrians called Sirius Kal-bu-sa mas (the Dog of the Sun) and in Chaldea, it was known as Kak-shisha (The Dog Star That Leads) Known History of the Dogon According to Dogon mythology, Nommo was the first living being created by Amma, the sky god and creator of the universe. However, doubts have been raised about the reliability of Griaule and Dieterlen's work on which The Sirius Mystery is based,[4][5] and alternative explanations have been proposed. Or, Griaule's account may reflect his own interests more than that of WebRe: Dogon Sirius claim debunked - Graham Hancock Official Website Mysteries Taken from [ library.thinkquest.org] According to the Dogon priests, Sirius is orbited by a tiny secret star that they refer to as 'po', which traces an elliptical path around Sirius taking 50 years to Worse still, hundreds of thousands of years ago, Sirius B was a dying red giant. ", A series of articles has appeared in the Griffith Observer, an astronomy magazin Readers of Skeptic are not so sanguine. Nor does he establish a connection between the Dogon creator Nommo and the star Sirius. From the findings of Van Beek and the authors of Ancient Mysteries, it is clear that Griaule himself was responsible for the creation of a modern myth; one which, in retrospect, has created such an industry and near-religious belief that the scope and intensity of it can hardly be fathomed. One of Temple's main Concluded Ridpath: "The parts of the Dogon knowledge that are admittedly both ancient and profound, particularly the story of Nommo and the concept of twinning, are the parts that bear least relation to the true facts about Sirius. A critical analysis has to investigate the accuracy of such claims, so as to judge the validity of the book's conclusions. Sagan, "Nowhere in his 295 page book does Temple offer one specific statement from the Dogon to substantiate his ancient astronauts claim." WebThe population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000.. . It is also the home of the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius A. They dont have telescopes or other "Legends of the Dogon: belief in a long-solved MANY SKEPTICS WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT ONCE SOMETHING IS debunked, that will be the end of it. They seem to have One problem with this idea is that Sirius B has been a white dwarf for at least tens of thousands of years. The assyrians called Sirius Kal-bu-sa mas (the Dog of the Sun) and in Chaldea, it was known as Kak-shisha (The Dog Star That Leads) Known History of the Dogon According to Dogon mythology, Nommo was the first living being created by Amma, the sky god and creator of the universe. Legends of the Dogon Belief in a Long-Solved Mystery Resurfaces. The good news is that two of the first five entries were from skeptical websites (CSICOP and Bob Carrolls Skeptics Dictionary). Europeans too believed that the "white dwarf' Sirius-B star was the heaviest thing in the universe, although in later years astronomers were to find On top of that, there is another star, Sirius B, orbiting at an average distance of about 20 AU (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and Sun). No other anthropologist supports their opinions. their knowledge without contact with an advanced technological The Dogon have a traditional interest in the sky and astronomical phenomena. In 1998, Temple republished the book with the subtitle new scientific evidence of alien contact 5,000 years ago. The books reputation was first dented in 1999, when Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince published The Stargate Conspiracy, in which they allege that Temples thinking had been heavily influenced by his mentor, Arthur M. Young. Temple's theory is heavily based on his interpretation of the work of ethnographers Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen. Melanin Conference, San Francisco, September 16-17, 1987"). It is important to look at the assumptions and implications of the claims made about the Dogon. So much for the Nommos. by Philip Coppens. Scientists learn that the Dogon do not possess secret knowledge about the star Sirius and its companions. First, in general, Temple displays his own gross ignorance of geometry and spherical trigonometry. New evidence deals a devastating blow to what was considered to be the best case for extraterrestrial visitation. century technological matters brought to them by visitors from other parts They point out that the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians used spherical lenses6 (even though they are a bad choice to use in telescopes try seeing an image through a glass bead). Griaule himself was aware of the discovery of Sirius B and in the 1920s before he visited the Dogon there were also unconfirmed sightings of Sirius C. The Dogon were well aware of the brightest star in the sky but, as Van Beek learned, they do not call it sigu tolo, as Griaule claimed, but dana tolo. "Robert Temple on three different occasions, by mail and phone, attempted to get support from me and I steadfastly refused," Asimov wrote. The Dogon myths may or may not be related to these other putties (or even to Kepler's supernova, which has been seriously suggested.) Journalist and skeptic James Oberg collected claims concerning Dogon mythology in his 1982 book UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries. So where does this leave the mysteries of Sirius? Ancient What is interesting is that the Dogon knew about Sirius and its triple star system way before modern science found out its existence. rotation is astronomically possible but whether it is correct or not we cannot yet know. By comparison, our own Sun was that old 3.4 billion years ago. All agree, however, that they learned about the star from Griaule. Van Beek states that this creates a major problem for Griaules claims. Read Skeptic on Apple or Android devices, or on PC or Mac via PocketMags.com. with the bright star Sirius (sigu tolo, "star of Sigui"), called interpreter. If a European had visited the Dogon in the 1920's and 1930's, conversation would likely have turned to astronomical matters, including Sirius, the brightest star in the sky and the center of Dogon mythology. This of course would destroy the modern influence explanation totally. The book's advertising blurb quotes prolific science writer Isaac Asimov, who says, "I couldn't find any mistakes in this book. Except that this isnt the original Dogon drawing. The alleged visitors from outer space (Temple claims missionaries didn't show up until 1949.) in elliptical orbits of astronomical phenomena. The Dogon and Sirius. Griaule," Current Anthropology 32, 1992, pp. Seriously: The Dogon and Sirius? Appleby also believes there exists a modern arrogance that cannot countenance the idea that ancient civilisations might have been scientifically superior. Schroder, D.J., et al. To Temple, this proved that "geodetic surveys of immense accuracy were thus practiced in ancient Egypt with a knowledge of the One group says the Dogon got their information from aliens from the Sirian system called Nommos. Used under aCreative Commons license. Robert Temple, who spent eight years studying mythology, is convinced that he can trace the Sirius-B information back to the Sumerians. I published, showed the distances to be nowhere close, in error by tens of miles, at least ten percent -- hardly "immense accuracy. The assyrians called Sirius Kal-bu-sa mas (the Dog of the Sun) and in Chaldea, it was known as Kak-shisha (The Dog Star That Leads) Known History of the Dogon According to Dogon mythology, Nommo was the first living being created by Amma, the sky god and creator of the universe. This proves that geodetic surveys of immense accuracy were thus practiced in ancient Egypt with a knowledge of the earth as a spherical body in space and projections upon it envisaged as part of the Sirius lore.". When I set him a draft of a sharply critical review written for Astronomy magazine, he replied with a blistering counterattack in a letter to my editor: "A virulent attack against my honesty, integrity, and intelligence," he called my review. If so, I wonder why that passage was ever "worth pointing out" in the book in the first place. The brightest star in the sky is Sirius, now called Sirius A. One of the pieces of evidence Temple cites is a sand picture made by the Other ancient astronomical records make no mention of Sirius being red. "Perhaps (Oberg) is unaware," Temple went on, "that the differential curvature of the earth variously distorts distances shown on maps. implausible notions such as the claim that the Dogon got their knowledge At least three are farther and at least one of them has rings too. There are no stable orbits around the less massive Sirius B which exceed three years. On this episode of MonsterTalk we chat with archeologist Dr. Ken Feder about giants, biblical archeology and one of the biggest hoaxes in American history. To penetrate this supposed disguise (which might not be a disguise at all, other classical scholars maintain), Temple resorts to ancient puns, to hidden meanings, to "garbled versions" which he must amend to fit the theory, to the exchange of consonants in innocent-looking words, to similar-sounding words from Griaule and Dieterlen describe a world renovation ceremony, associated seem to have done little else than give the earthlings some useless "their purpose in disguising their secrets was to see that the secrets could survive.". The Symbolism of the Tarot: The Minor Arcana, The Symbolism of the Tarot: The Major Arcana, My Reading with Kristine from Psychic Source Review, Get the best Psychic Reading Ever Best Psychics Ive Reviewed, The Cathars: the struggle for and of a new Church, The Strange Stone Discs of Baian-Kara-Ula, William Blake: What paintings of visions come. they were not told by beings from the star Sirius.". Moon is traveling through Cancer today. He points out that Griaule and Dieterlen stand alone in their claims about the Dogon secret knowledge. In 1952, Young was one of nine people present during the first contact with the Council, an event initiated by Andrija Puharich, the man who brought Israeli spoonbender Uri Geller to America. "It does not!" no conclusions of any kind." Temples response to criticism has so far been evasive. Print versions available in Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Korean. some 8.6 light years from earth. Speculation about the Dogon on numerous websites is now mingled with fact, leading to wide misunderstanding among the public about Dogon mythology. If I were alone in picking on Temple's thesis, he might be able to argue a case for ad hominem persecution. It has a mass of 2.35 times the mass of the Sun. The Pleiades are sometimes mentioned, but this is not possible. Some astronomers speculate that the white dwarf Sirius B might have been a flaming red giant only 2000 years ago although current astrophysical theories decree that any such transformation in less than 100,000 years is impossible. Sirius was already the subject of a mystery concerning the traditional lore of the Dogon tribe of Mali, near Timbuktu in western Africa. Carl Sagan's contribution to this discussion was in his book Broca's Brain (1979). stream Sirius figures prominently in the Dogon myths. History Debunked then goes on to demonstrate the type of pseudo-scientific nonsense this has lead to by providing a link to an Ethnomathematics paper and reading out its conclusion. Europeans too talked about the discovery of a third star in the Sirius system; later investigations, however, ruled out that possibility. Either way, the original purity of the Dogon-Sirius story is itself a myth as it is highly likely that Griaule contaminated their knowledge with his own. [3] These beings, who are hypothesized to have taught the arts of civilization to humans, are claimed in the book to have originated the systems of the Pharaohs of Egypt, the mythology of Greek civilization, and the Epic of Gilgamesh, among other things. "The ancient peoples were not concealing information from us out of spite," he writes. It is a type of fuel that can lead to what Clay Farris Naff cleverly calls the neuron bomb. In this post, Michael Shermer asks, Is there a moral standard that stands above all the worlds religions that is based on some transcendent source?. Ridpath asserts. Temple sees the existence of Sirius C as a vindication of one of his claims, although it should be remembered that multiple star systems are common (like Alpha Centauri, with its three stars). The Dogon. (Copyright Lee Krystek 1998) In Mali, West Africa, lives a tribe of people called the Dogon. WebThe Dogon understanding of astronomy was comparatively modern but has several known misconceptions - it entirely lines up with the European understanding as of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before the discovery of relativity. Since Sirius B is a very dense white dwarf star about the size of Earth, it can only be seen in dark skies with medium-sized telescopes. These same myths, Temple claims, identify a planet circling that star as the home of Nommo, an alien creature who founded the Dogon civilization. The other five are still seen as red but from the time of Arab astronomers to the present day Sirius has been blue-white. Sagan further commented that he was surprised, given the freedom of viewpoint that Fish used, that her map didnt match the Hill map better!4. 11.1. History Debunked then goes on to demonstrate the type of pseudo-scientific nonsense this has lead to by providing a link to an Ethnomathematics paper and reading out its conclusion. And this is what Mr. Oberg has done." This step was taken by others, particularly Temple, in the Sixties and Seventies. See also von Dniken, Zecharia Sitchin, and UFO. October 1977 saw Marvin Luckermann's "More Sirius Difficulties," on ancient calendar systems and an alternate, non- extraterrestrial explanation for the ancient fascination with the number fifty (the article quotes Michael Astour's book Hellenosemitics as saying, "This exorbitant figure, very popular in Greek myths, has its explanation: it is the number of seven-day weeks in one lunar year. WebNew evidence deals a devastating blow to what was considered to be the best case for extraterrestrial visitation. Whew! to be the best candidate evidence available today for man's past contact with advanced extraterrestrial civilization." Its appearance in the dawn sky over Egypt warned of the impending Nile floods and the summer's heat and marked the beginning of the Egyptian calendar. As the brightest star in the sky it was known and worshiped by ancient civilizations. 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