The Sirius Reception Hypothesis: Why the Dogon Knew About Sirius B

THE DOGON MYSTERY — RESOLVED BY THE RECEIVER MODEL

The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, possess traditional knowledge about the Sirius star system that should not have been possible before the invention of the telescope:

• They knew Sirius is a binary system (Sirius A + B)
• They knew the companion (Sirius B) is a small, dense, white object
• They knew the orbital period is approximately 50 years (actual: 50.09 years)
• They knew Sirius B orbits in an elliptical path

Sirius B was not telescopically observed until 1862 (Alvan Graham Clark) and not photographed until 1970. The Dogon traditions predate both.

THE CONVENTIONAL DEBATE:

Skeptics argue the Dogon acquired this knowledge from European missionaries or explorers in the early 20th century (the "contamination hypothesis"). Proponents argue the traditions are genuinely ancient. The debate has been unresolved for decades.

THE RECEIVER MODEL RESOLUTION:

If the Great Pyramid (or a similar receiver system) was capable of receiving information from the Sirius system at 1420MHz, the Dogon mystery dissolves:

1. The pyramid's Queen's Chamber shaft aims directly at Sirius
2. A transceiver at Giza could have received detailed information about the Sirius system
3. This information would have been available to ancient Egyptian astronomers/priests
4. Egyptian knowledge was transmitted throughout Africa via trade and cultural exchange
5. The Dogon (whose cosmology shares deep roots with Egyptian traditions) inherited this knowledge through oral tradition

The "impossible knowledge" about Sirius B is not impossible if you have a radio receiver pointed at Sirius that can resolve information about the system. The Dogon didn't need telescopes. They needed someone to tell them — and that someone had a receiver.

THE BROADER PATTERN:

The Dogon are not the only ancient people with anomalous stellar knowledge:

• The ancient Egyptians associated Sirius (Sopdet) with Isis and considered it the most important star — far more important than the Sun in their stellar theology
• The Sumerians associated Orion with their most significant deities
• Multiple ancient cultures show disproportionate knowledge of and reverence for exactly the star systems the pyramid's shafts point at

If the pyramid was a receiver, this reverence makes sense. These weren't arbitrary mythological associations. They were acknowledgments of WHERE THE INFORMATION CAME FROM.