I'm about to post something that's going to go against everything you've ever been taught. If you're open minded, it's really going to make you think, if not you're just going to get a laugh out of it. You've been warned.
There is a tribe in Africa called the Dogon. They have a belief system based on something very interesting. To them, the most important star in the sky is "Digitaria", their name for what we call "Sirius B". What's interesting about this? Sirius B is invisible without a fairly powerful telescope. I would have no chance at all to see it with the scope I use. The Dogon have known about this star for a very long time, their tradition dates back at least 5000 years in Egyptian culture, and traces of this story can be found in the mythologies of almost all the ancient cultures.
As if that's not weird enough, they know even more about Digitaria. For one, their myths describe it as a "strong, heavy, small star". Well turns out it's a type of star called a white dwarf, which is much smaller than a "normal" star like our sun, but with more mass which makes it much denser (stronger and heavier). On top of that, they described it's orbit as being about 50 years around Sirius A, they even get specific enough to say it's between 49 and 50 years. Turns out the orbit is exactly 49.4 years. On top of that, they have drawings of what they describe as the orbit of Digitaria, and instead of placing Sirius A at the center of the orbit like you'd expect from a primitive culture (and even most people today would draw it) they showed the orbit as an ellipse with Sirius A at one of the focal points of the ellipse. Compare their drawing of the orbit with a modern astronomical chart of the orbit, and see how close they match!:
It gets even better. They describe a third star in the system, which we now call "Sirius C". Only as recently as 1995 was modern science able to confirm that this star is where they said it would be. This star is so dim that we're still unable to see it with the most powerful telescopes, the only way we even know it's there is the gravitational effect it has on Sirius A and B. The Dogon myth describes this as a weaker female star, and we now know it's a brown dwarf, which is indeed weak in terms of stars.
So how the hell do they know all this about something they can't possibly have seen? Well, it took researchers many years to gain the trust of the tribe's elders so they would tell the researchers this, their biggest secret. They say that, a long time ago, "visitors" came from Digitaria in a spaceship, landed, and told the people of Earth these things. They then "gave knowledge" to the people of the Earth. This giving of knowledge is these "visitors" helping to start the earliest civilizations, like Egypt, Sumeria, the very places these legends come from. And indeed, it's pretty mysterious how these early civilizations seemed to spring up from nowhere, instead of building up slowly like you'd expect. And these civilizations all have a knowledge of astronomy which seems way too advanced for them. Even the great pyramids in Egypt are aligned perfectly to the 3 stars in Orions Belt, which are related to Sirius.
The Dogon describe these visitors as amphibious fish like people called the "Nommo". On the left is an actual Dogon drawing of a Nommo, and on the right is an artists concept of what they might have looked like:
So, was Earth really visited by advanced amphibious beings in the far past, who helped jump start our civilization? There is no proof that it's NOT true, and the evidence is pretty convincing. What do you think?
"Think for yourself. Question authority" - Timothy Leary
Just curious what people think about that
