The Dogon tribe around Mali in West African caught attention because they might have been able to identify that a star was a binary system before modern tech did (possibly due to good eyesight but also possibly just bad anthropology.)
This led to a lot of interest in their religion, which have elements that ancient astronaut weirdos have adopted into that mythology. It deserves some not stupid attention.
I don’t know anything about any of this other than the 2 minutes I just spent reading wikipedia.
My guess would be that Griaule overlaid a contemporary understanding of astronomy on top of their mythology, either through ineptitude or as a way to procure funding for more expeditions.
What I mean is, it’s infinitely more likely that their mythology was “we are the descendants of the brightest star we can see”, than they are actually descended from refugees from sirius.
The Dogon tribe around Mali in West African caught attention because they might have been able to identify that a star was a binary system before modern tech did (possibly due to good eyesight but also possibly just bad anthropology.)
This led to a lot of interest in their religion, which have elements that ancient astronaut weirdos have adopted into that mythology. It deserves some not stupid attention.
Interesting.
I think this is a better link.
I don’t know anything about any of this other than the 2 minutes I just spent reading wikipedia.
My guess would be that Griaule overlaid a contemporary understanding of astronomy on top of their mythology, either through ineptitude or as a way to procure funding for more expeditions.
What I mean is, it’s infinitely more likely that their mythology was “we are the descendants of the brightest star we can see”, than they are actually descended from refugees from sirius.