About the Dogon have again forgotten. Forgot thoroughly: after ethnographic expeditions to them in the 1960-1970s poudivlyalis, Poehali and forgotten. 40 years of modern science hardly recalls. And it is in vain: humanity, more seriously embarking on the search of first contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations possibly could in this way to find some hints in his own crib, on the planet Earth.


Secret Dogon

The Dogon is one of the ancient Sudanese tribes, which, escaping whether from enforced Islamization, whether from a terrible drought - elders of the tribe already confused as true causes "great migration", - we reached West Africa and settled in the bend of the Niger river near the high plateau of Bandiagara, on the territory of the modern Republic of Mali. Well, you never know archaic peoples in peace, live in the African wilderness?

It turned out, however, that the Dogon tribe is very special. In the beginning of XIX century it was opened for Europe Lieutenant French colonial troops Louis Deplane. But in addition to the original ritual masks used by the Dogon in religious ceremonies and holidays, he saw nothing in particular. "I never met such a poorly adapted to humans country as the land of the dogons," he wrote Lieutenant Deplane in the official report.

In 1931 to very remote, difficult of access regions, where the Dogon have found a second home, got famous French anthropologist Professor Marcel Grill. He was impressed by the legends and myths that the Dogon, not knowing writing, orally transmitted from generation to generation. It turned out that ignorant Dogon know about the origin and structure of the Universe so that the rest of the mankind to breakthrough ideas of albert Einstein even had no idea.

Marcel Grill and his colleagues have constantly to organize a scientific expedition to the Dogon. Scientists have long lived with the tribe, has shared with him their joys and sorrows, helped doctors and medicines. The Dogon was gradually filled with confidence in this smart and friendly to newcomers of the "Big world", has started to devote their most intimate secrets. Grill and his assistant, Professor Germain, Dieterlen, were virtually among their catches.

According to the results of years of research the French ethnographer moved finally to open scientific publications. And first of these, published in 1950, made a real sensation. The beliefs of the Dogon on the device of our world and the Universe were so advanced and scientifically sound, which inadvertently crept into the idea: not contacted if the ancestors of the Dogon in very ancient times with some space aliens, shared with the natives of the Land a little bit of your knowledge?

Let's start with the fact that, unlike almost all other religious beliefs in the world, the Earth, in the opinion of the Dogon, is not the centre of creation. While the "advanced" Europe persecuted Galileo Galilei and he detested the doctrine of Copernicus, the Dogon not only spoke to his sons about the plurality of worlds, but he instructed them that Earthmen were not the only reason in the Universe and that they are just children, compared with more advanced space civilizations.

The modern theory of the "Big Bang", in which the universe was born, posits that before this event all of its matter compressed to an incredible density, took an infinitely small volume, and such categories as space and time did not exist. And here is how it looks in the interpretation of the Dogon: "In the beginning of all things was Amma is a God who never rested on anything. Amma was a ball, egg, and the egg it was closed. Besides him, there was nothing". Actually, in the language of the Dogon the word "Amma" and now means something fixed, limited and very heavy. Listen Dogon further: "the World inside Amma was even no time and no space. Time and space are combined into a single whole... But the moment came when Amma opened his eyes. The idea came out of the spiral, which, circling in his belly, identified future growth of the world... the world is infinite, but it is possible to measure". Einstein and relativity theory in its purest form!

"Amma kept inside, squeezed the four elements: water, air, fire and earth. Then Amma decided to create the world. In each of the four parts of it caused an explosion, which is the reason of existence", - tell the Dogon.

The milky way, to the myriad worlds which includes our Galaxy, the Dogon referred to as the "edge of space". "The border of the place, " explained Grilu the Dogon, - a placeholder for one part of the stellar world, a part of which is our Land, and this whole world spinning spiral. Amma has created an infinite number of stellar worlds in the form of spirals. What modern science says about the prevalent form of structuring of galaxies? Correctly: that the vast majority of galaxies has the shape of a spiral.

Again the word of the Dogon: "Spiral stellar worlds are inhabited worlds. Amma that gave the world the movement and form, simultaneously with all things created and all living beings... how on our planet and in other Lands..." Not knowing writing and has the most primitive notions about astronomy the Dogon confidently operate with such notions as "stars", "the planet" and even "the satellites of the planets. "The fixed stars - say the Dogon, is such stars that don't revolve around other stars. Planets and satellites of the planets are the stars that rotate circles around other stars." About our luminary the Dogon confidently say, "the Sun rotates on its axis as if under the action of spiral springs... and the Earth turns itself around him and runs around the space in a large circle".

In the Solar system, the Dogon confidently distinguish Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. This is not surprising: all four are seen in the sky with the naked eye. But how do they know that Saturn is dense asteroid ring? Why do they represent Jupiter surrounded by four satellites Modern astronomers have discovered Jupiter already 16 satellites, but the most significant is really four. However Galileo told about this fact to the world only after the opening of these heavenly bodies in 1610 And the Dogon for centuries before Galileo knew about their existence. By the way, they also claim that the satellite is and Venus. Until such modern science has not discovered. But who knows, maybe we are just not yet Mature enough technologically to the point, which is owned by being shared with Dogon their knowledge.


Under the sign of whitefish-Tolo



A special place in the mythology of the Dogon is Sirius (they call it Sigi-Tolo) is the brightest star in our sky. Actually, it's not one star but three, say the Dogon, they are very close from each other, "are the cornerstone of the universe" and "had a major impact on the development of life on Earth".

What about Sirius modern science? Sirius is at a distance of 8.6 light-years from Earth, mass stars approximately 2.4 times the mass of the Sun, age - from 200 to 300 million years. The hypothesis that Sirius is actually a double star, made in 1841 German mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. And only in 1862 astronomers this fact was confirmed.



The second star Sirius, it is not visible to the naked eye, as Sirius Century. It is at a distance of 20 astronomical units from Sirius a and is a white dwarf. In the past, as many astronomers, Sirius In, most likely, was a bright blue star of spectral class a: about the same as today's Sirius A. Some experts say that over time, both Sirius will merge in a blinding flash of a supernova. Sirius With modern astronomical instrument is not yet discovered. But this does not mean that such things never happen.

The Dogon argued that Sirius In (they call it In Tolo) - "this star, rotating around Sigi-Tolo, making one turn in 50 years. When Sigi-Tolo befriends In Tolo, she starts to Shine very brightly, and when removed from him, she begins to flicker, so it seems as if it has turned into a few of the stars". When astronomers have discovered Sirius In and carried out all necessary calculations, it turned out that the period of circulation of both stars about their common center of gravity equal... some 50 years! The frequency of light of Sirius And depending on rapprochement with Sirius In also confirmed by astronomers.

Again, listen what they say the Dogon, "Tolo is the most difficult of heaven phone It has a density that when you gather together all the people, and they will not be able to raise even a small piece". Surprising insight: that Sirius was In first discovered in the Universe white dwarf - faded and cowering to an incredible density (50 t/cm) celestial body.

The first people on the planet, say the Dogon, appeared from Sirius: "On the Earth flew heavenly ARKS with planets, the sun which was Tolo before its explosion. While descending, each ark "described the double helix, showing their movement the course of life is a whirlwind, that quickened the first its part". Pretty obvious analogy with the form of the double helix molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) - media of our genetic code!

Myths Dogon very detail and how the aliens with Siriusa inhabited our planet. First come the creature, named Wow... This most CSOs rebelled against Amma and took some of his intimate knowledge... Oh my three visits in space in small... ARKS Source of energy for space ARKS served particles""". The Dogon very describe the vicissitudes of flight CSOs, in particular, the emphasis on the fact that CSOs have made some very complex maneuvers that the movement of his "ark" coincided with the movement of the Earth (lit-but - "came to Earth in a successful marriage"). The need gravitational maneuvers for successful orbital insertion of one or another planet - one of the axioms of modern satellite navigation!




"Then, " tell the Dogon, arrived Nommo, who faithfully followed all instructions Amma... He began to colonize the planet people... On his ark were all necessary to create a life and people - four pairs of twins, or eight Ancestors. Flew the ark to the Earth through a special "window of time"that created Amma. After boarding the ark was the first on Earth descended Nommo, followed by all the others. When the ark was empty, Amma pulled up at the sky copper chain on which hung the ark, and closed my sky box"".
Fans of the cult TV series "Stargate" even explain nothing: the Dogon, describing the arrival of the space mission from Sirius, as if he were guided by the same scenario.


Trace copper sandals



In one of the early works Griolya "the Sudanese system of Sirius " the arrival of the legendary Nommo on Earth is described as follows: "the ark eight periods circled in the sky, shining like a giant rainbow, from horizon to horizon. At the moment of landing, he slipped in the mud, and the pit, emerged from a blow became a lake Debo... Leaving the ship, the Nommo put first of all to the ground the left leg. This meant that he takes the Ground in his possession. The mark left foot Nommo, reminiscent of trace copper sandals".


Grill died in 1956, at the time of the next expedition to the Dogon. Ten years later, the French astronomer Eric Gerrie from Marseille, watching on TV for the first steps of a man on the moon's surface, have experienced a painful feeling of deja vu: where is it as if I saw something similar? Eventually remembered: this image is inspired by "the Sudanese system of Sirius " Griolya. Lunar footprint left by astronauts, is the "copper sandal Nommo"!

Gerrie again re-read works Griolya. Then agreed to meet with Germain, Dieterlen, his faithful and devoted helper, who continued the work of his teacher. From conversations with her Gerrie made firm conviction, ethnographers tried accurately record the words of the Dogon, they are not customized their stories known to the modern science of physical, chemical, and even more astronomical processes, about which they had a very rough idea. Therefore, legends Dogon is worthy of attention of specialists evidence of a long-standing paloviita space aliens on the planet.

After that Gerrie became one of the most consistent advocate of myths Dogon, wrote about an interesting book, which was published in 1975, a year later appeared Robert temple "Secrets of Sirius", which also encourages scientists: treat the myths Dogon seriously, take a close look - you'll see them hints that said nothing ethnographers Grealy, Dieterlen, but can come across a very interesting thought of astrophysicists and astronomers and others like them.

Soviet science has come to the identity of Marseille Griolya with his "bell". In "Big Soviet encyclopedia" the outstanding French ethnographer devoted only one paragraph, which States: "the Basic works on the spiritual culture and archaeology of the peoples of West Africa and have a pronounced anti-racist direction. However, demanding respect for the African civilization, Grill came to her one - sided showed her the essence of the religious beliefs and mythology and in fact advocated the preservation of archaic elements of African culture that does not meet the tasks of construction of the new Africa."

So, without mentioning the Dogon, Soviet science was sent their amazing cosmogonic myths "to the dustbin of history". But the manuscripts do not burn, does it? And it is never late to find that yesterday was considered "junk"pearl grain of truth.