The Dogon Tribe - Taught by Aliens?

In the Homburi Mountains near Timbuktu in the African country of Mali lives an ethnic group who have at the centre of their religion a star that is not able to be seen by the naked eye and extremely difficult to observe through a modern telescope and was first photographed in 1970. In fact, it is only in the last 50 years that astronomers have discovered this particular star. The star in question is called Sirius B and is part of a binary star system. The other star in the system is Sirius A. The question is, how did the distant ancestors of this tribe know about the star and who told them about it?

Between 1931 and 1956 a French anthropologist called Marcel Griaule studied and lived with the Dogon tribe. They frequently talked about their god whom they called Nommo but because they did not trust him they did not tell him who their god was. They also had frequent ceremonies where they would wear costumes made out of bamboo sticks. These costumes were very square and box like and even the headdress was square shape with just a slit for the eyes. From the moment he watched the first ceremony Marcel thought that the costumes looked similar to an astronaut's space suit.

It was some years before the Dogon high priests began to trust Marcel and started to show him and tell him about the origins of their religion. They spoke to him about their god Nommo who was from a deity of amphibians who arrived in a magnificent ship from the sky. They preached to them as the Dogon gathered around their huge spaceships. The god Nommo was their leader and told them that they came from a star which orbits Sirius A once every 50 years. This star turns out to be Sirius B which has only recently been recorded as orbiting Sirius A every 50 years. It's existence was only suspected in 1844. They also claimed that the orbit was elliptical, which it is, and it rotates on its own axis, which it does.They also referred to another star in the system as being called the 'female' which orbits around Sirius B. This has been suspected by astronomers but as yet not been confirmed.

The Dogon also knew about the rings of Saturn and that Jupiter has four moons and have known for hundreds of years that the planets orbit the sun.

The most amazing thing which Marcel Griaule was shown was a plate like object with about the same dimensions as a large plate which had a wooden rod about 1 foot in length attached to the centre of the plate like object. One of the tribes elders told Marcel that the object was full of mercury and that it was an anti-gravity machine which had been handed down for thousands of years. When spun using the rod, the object simply hung in the air and continued to spin until it was stopped.

Whether you believe this or not, there is an interesting parallel in that at this moment in time NASA and China are experimenting with anti-gravity engines and they are both using mercury as the prime component.