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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My first thanks must go to my wife, Olivia, who has been an excellent proof-

reader and collater and who made the greatest number of helpful suggestions

concerning the manuscript.

Two friends who read the book at an early stage and took extreme pains

to be helpful, and devoted much of their time to writing out or explaining to

me at length their lists of specific suggestions, are Adrian Berry of the London

Telegraph, and Michael Scott of Tangier. The latter gave meticulous attention

to details which few people would trouble to do with another's work.

This book would never have been written without the material concerning

the Dogon having been brought to my attention by Arthur M. Young of

Philadelphia. He has helped and encouraged my efforts to get to the bottom

of the mystery for years, and supplied me with invaluable materials, including

the typescript of an English translation of Le Renard Pale by the anthropologists

Griaule and Dieterlen, which enabled me to bring my survey up to date.

Without the stimulus and early encouragement of Arthur C. Clarke of

Ceylon, this book might not have found the motive force to carry it through

many dreary years of research.

My agent, Miss Anne McDermid, has been a model critic and adviser at

all stages. Her enthusiasm and energy are matched only by her penetrating

intuition and her skill at negotiation.

Others who have read all or part of this book and who made helpful

suggestions of some kind are Professor W. H. McCrea of the Department of

Astronomy, University of Sussex, John Moore of Robinson & Watkins, Brendan

O'Regan of the Stanford Research Institute, Edward Bakewell of St Louis,

and Anthony Michaelis of the Weizmann Institute Foundation.

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I am indebted to Adrian and Marina Berry for bringing me into touch with

A. Costa, and to A. Costa for generously supplying his splendid photographs

of the Dogon, some of which appear in this book, and also for his introduction

to Mme Germaine Dieterlen. I am indebted to Mme Dieterlen for giving her

permission and the permission of the Societe des Africainistes of Paris (of which

she is Secretary-General) to publish in English the entire article 'Un Systeme

Soudanais de Sirius', which Mme Dieterlen wrote in collaboration with the

late Marcel Griaule.

Among those whom I have consulted on specific points in my research and

who have been extremely helpful are Geoffrey Watkins, Brigadier R. G. S.

Bidwell, O.B.E., the Hon. Robin Baring, James Serpell, Seton Gordon,

Herbert Brown, and Robert and Pauline Matarasso. I am also indebted for

help or encouragement of varying kinds to Fred Clarke, Professor Cyrus

Gordon, Robert Graves, Kathleen Raine, William Gunston, Professor D. M.

Lang, Professor Charles Burney, Professor O. R. Gurney, Dr Irving Lindenblad,

Dr Paul Murdin, Hilton Ambler, Gillian Hughes, Carol MacArthur, R.

Markham, Richard Robinson, Dr Michael Barraclough, and Angela Earll.

In production of this book my British editor, Mrs Jan Widdows, and

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my American editor, Thomas Dunne, have been cooperative, helpful, and

sympathetic. The cartographer Daniel Kitts has cheerfully prepared maps

and diagrams to requirements which were often exasperating. Miss Mary

Walsh showed ingenuity in picture research. Stephen du Sautoy has also been

helpful and shown a great deal of imagination in connection with production

of the British dust-jacket design, allowing the author a considerable say in a

matter which is often barred to him.

I would like to acknowledge indirect debts to the African priests Manda,

Innekouzou, Yebene, and Ongnonlou, without whom the subject for this book

could not honestly be said to exist, since it probably could never have been

formulated. Two early pioneers deserve especial mention: the late Sir Norman

Lockyer, who found ways to consider together the previously separate fields of

astronomy and archaeology, and the late Thomas Taylor of London, who

devoted his life to the translation and exposition of texts which have survived

the centuries of malignity, abuse, book burnings, and slaughter which for two

millennia have been the fate of those who adhered to 'the Great Tradition' -

nor did Taylor himself escape the consequences of his position in pain and

suffering. Thanks are also due to the philosopher Proclus for making public

certain specific allusions to secret traditions which he might have concealed.

r. K. G. t.

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Acknowledgements

Author's Note

What is the Mystery?

CONTENTS

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TO THE READER

PART ONE

The Sirius Question is posed

1 The Knowledge of the Dogon ii

A Sudanese Sirius System by M. Griaule and G. Dieterlen 35

PART TWO

The Sirius Question is rephrased

2 A Fairytale 55

3 The Sacred Fifty 82

4 The Hounds of Hell 101

5 The Oracle Centres l2l

6 Origins of the Dogon 153

7 The Rising of 'Serpent's Tooth' 175

8 A Fable

PART THREE

Beyond the Mystery

APPENDICES

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I The Moons of the Planets, the Planets around Stars, and Revolutions

and Rotations of Bodies in Space - Described by the Neoplatonic

Philosopher Proclus 223

II The Surviving Fragments of Berossus, in English Translation 24.8

III Why Sixty Years? 258

IV The Meaning of the E at Delphi 265

V Why the Hittites were at Hebron in Palestine 268

VI The Dogon Stages of Initiation 273

Bibliography

Index

283

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Summaries follow each chapter in Part Two. The sheer amount of the material

dealt with makes it advisable for the reader to put it into a smooth perspective

by reading over these summaries which have been prepared so that the reader

may refresh his memory if he wishes. The author can offer no apology for the

complexity of the material, but he can present these slight aids for its

comprehension.

Every effort has been made to trace the ownership of all illustrative material

reproduced in this book. Should any error or omission in acknowledgement have

been made the author offers his apologies and will make the necessary correction

in future editions.

What is the Mystery?

The question which this book poses is: Has Earth in the past been visited by

intelligent beings from the region of the star Sirius ?

When I began writing this book in earnest in 1967, the entire question was

framed in terms of an African tribe named the Dogon, who live in Mali in the

former French Sudan. The Dogon were in possession of information concerning

the system of the star Sirius which was so incredible that I felt impelled to

research the material. The results, in 1974, seven years later, are that I have

been able to show that the information which the Dogon possess is really more

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