The Dogon Religion

[Schadenfroh]

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They knew the existence of Sirius B, a white dwarf of extreme density belonging to the Sirius system as a twin star of Sirius A, and back then mostly unknown and barely visible with a very powerful telescope.
In fact, it was not until 1970 that Sirius B was photographed for the first time by Irving Lindenblad.
Marcel Griaule had been told the secret religious knowledge of the dogon, after a proper ritual preparation. The dogon claimed they had known about Sirius B, which they called the Digitary star, by fish-like beings called Nommo, who came from Sirius thousands of years before.
Their ritual masks, hundreds of years old, are all about the Sirius cult. Further more, dogon knew the Moon is dry and dead, they knew the Saturn rings and the Jupiter moons.

interesting

 

[Cristatus]

that's pretty cool stuff, but how old is the dogon religion?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: logic1485
that's pretty cool stuff, but how old is the dogon religion?

very

 

[DaveSimmons]

dogon it!

Better them than the Dagon religion I guess.