The ark brought an amphibious group of beings known as the Nommo. Temple interpreted this to be an old account of a spacecraft landing. To this data, Temple added his own reflections on a Dogon legend that speaks of an ark descending to the ground amid a great wind. The Dogon’s knowledge of Sirius and its dwarf twin was discovered by two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, who worked among them in the years immediately after World War II.
The discussion of the Sirius Mystery became an integral part of what was termed the “ancient astronaut” hypothesis, the idea that in ancient times earth was visited by extraterrestrials who seeded it with knowledge and left remnants of their presence in various ancient drawings and artifacts. The Dogon reputedly knew all of these facts. Dogon legends about Sirius were said to have originated long before any astronomer could have figured out the existence of the second star (now called Sirius B), calculated its 50-year orbit, or discerned its status as a small white dwarf. This was a fact discovered by western astronomers only in the nineteenth century.
He asserted that the Dogon people, who reside in the African countries of Mali and Burkina Faso, had been aware for many centuries that the star Sirius was being orbited by a second star. Temple put forth a most intriguing claim. Its appearance marked the beginning of the year in the Egyptian calendar. In Egypt, for example, it appeared in the dawn sky shortly before the annual flooding of the Nile and was thus seen as a warning. Sirius is the brightest star in the sky over North Africa, and as such was known and venerated by different ancient nations. Sirius Mystery (religion, spiritualism, and occult)
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