Case · UFO Afrinews No 6, July 1992
The Dogon of Mali and the dark companion of Sirius (editorial aside)
Dogon country, Mali, Mali
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
In her editorial on where the 'unknowns' might come from, Hind canvasses Sirius, eight light years away in Canis Major, whose faint companion the Pup cannot be seen without a telescope and was only found by Western astronomers in 1862. She relays Robert Temple's claim that the Dogon of Mali in north-west Africa have venerated this invisible star for at least four and a half centuries, marking each fifty-year cycle by carving a huge head and placing it in a cave; Temple saw nine such heads in one cave. The Dogon are also said to know the Pup's rotation and its elliptical orbit. Hind offers this alongside the Pleiades and the Centauri stars as a candidate homeland for the beings, before doubting that such advanced visitors would behave so ineptly.
What Hind made of it
Hind relays Temple's claim as one of several possible origins without evaluating it, then asks why beings from such stars would be so technologically inept.
In their words
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the Dogon have been devotees of this 'dark' star for at least 450 years
Cross references
- Robert Temple
- Editorial 'Belief Patterns', spreads 03-04
- Pleiades (Billy Meier)
- Alpha/Proxima Centauri (Elizabeth Klarer's Akon)