Nisi cognitio finitas, infinitum sit necesse est ignoratio
Finally I’m here. But what to post? Been very busy staying at home with the baby who has spots across his torso including his arms. My GP was puzzled enough to call in her senior at the practice to have a look. Possibly what’s called the fourth disease which is a viral rash that is so mild it hardly rates as a disease.
Phil Coppen is an esotericist with an unusually sceptical approach to the topic – rightly so, since so much is tendentious rubbish in the esoteric world. He considers the rather poorly handled case of the religious views of the Dogon people in Mali…
Dogon Shame
…in which he reveals the anthropological source of the “data” that indicates the Dogon knew of Sirius’s dark companion (a white dwarf drowned out by Sirius A) was actually the “source” of that knowledge, a certain Martin Griaule, who had studied them as an anthropologist and wrote an article that became Robert Temple’s The Sirius Mystery. When Walter van Beek went and spent a decade with the Dogon in 1991 he discovered that they knew next to nothing of the elaborate lore that Griaule had reported in 1950 and had been Temple’s inspiration in 1965.
Case closed, but there’s one point left unexplained. The Babylonians, and the Hindus, both speak of Seven Sages who assisted the first Kings of Man and actually accompanied them on the Ark. According to Berossus the Sages, specifically Oannes, were amphibious and only half-human – not gods or demons, but something else in the form of man. Carl Sagan and Iosef Shklovskii considered this case, in their Intelligent Life in the Universe, to be the most likely example of contact with ETIs – though far from proven. And the Sages are connected with Sirius – but why? Sirius A & B are far too young to be likely prospects for native ETIs to have evolved – B is believed to have already gone through its red giant stage and mass-dumped onto A. Thus the whole system has already been baked by a star going through the Asymptotic Giant Stage i.e. bad news for life.