Messengers from Sirius The Dogon the Stars and the Science of the Ancients

<p> <em>Messengers from Sirius</em></p><p><strong>The Dogon the Stars and the Science of the Ancients</strong><br>By Jojo Penwood</p><p>Beneath the sandstone cliffs of Mali the Dogon people have preserved a cosmic legacy that defies conventional history. <em>Messengers from Sirius</em> explores one of the most provocative mysteries of ancient knowledge: how a pre-technological African society came to possess precise astronomical information about Sirius B-a white dwarf star invisible to the naked eye and only confirmed by Western science in the 20th century.</p><p>Anthropologist Jojo Penwood takes readers on a sweeping journey through Dogon cosmology symbolism and ritual revealing a worldview where science and spirituality are inseparable and the stars are not distant objects but conscious entities woven into the fabric of daily life. From the amphibious Nommo beings said to descend from Sirius to the 60-year Sigui ceremony that mirrors the orbital cycle of Sirius B the Dogon tradition challenges our assumptions about how knowledge is acquired preserved and understood.</p><p>Blending anthropology astronomy philosophy and indigenous science this book invites readers to reconsider the boundaries between myth and fact oral tradition and empirical data ancient wisdom and modern cosmology. Whether the Dogon's knowledge came through ancestral observation cultural transmission or something more mysterious <em>Messengers from Sirius</em> opens a dialogue between worlds-between Earth and sky past and future science and symbol.</p>