The Dogon people are a people in Africa, living in the mountains south of Timbuktu, and now they are under the jurisdiction of Mali? Our country. ? For a long time, this nation has attracted great interest from anthropologists because of its preserved myths and legends. It is obviously different from other ethnic groups in Africa.
Like the legend about Sirius. ? Their legend mentions that Sirius has a dark, dense and invisible partner, where there is life? The heaviest substance in the world. So he called this "dark partner" Potoro, which means star. Wave? It is a tiny particle, which means a star as small as a particle. ? The legend caused a shocking commotion.
It was not until 1844 that astronomers began to infer that Sirius had an invisible star from its abnormal trajectory? Companion star; The existence of Sirius Day was not confirmed until 1862. ? Sirius Day is a white dwarf star that can't shine. Its diameter is similar to that of the earth, but its mass is similar to that of the sun. Therefore, the material weight of Sirius Day is extremely high, and the density is as big as a teacup, which is already 12 ton. ?
Here comes the problem. Why did the Dogon people know about this naked eye phenomenon thousands or hundreds of years before modern astronomers? The invisible Sirius? Whispering? Or the lost civilization learned an extremely amazing phenomenon from the highest priest of the Dogon people: there is a wealth of knowledge about a distant star in the religious teachings that the Dogon people have spoken for 400 years. Even with a telescope, the star is invisible to the naked eye
This is Sirius's companion. The Dogon people called Sirius's companion "Putoru". In their language, "Park" refers to tiny seeds and "Toru" refers to stars. They also say it is the "heaviest star" and it is white. In other words, they have correctly explained the three basic characteristics of this star: small, heavy and white. In fact, Sirius's companion star is a white dwarf. Astronomers first guessed the existence of Sirius companion in 1844. With the help of high-powered telescopes and other modern astronomical instruments, people realized that Sirius was a small and dense white dwarf star in 1928. It was not until 1970 that the first photo of this star was taken.