Sirius
Sirius (Alpha Canis Major) is popularly known as the “Dog Star,” and
is 8.6 light years from Earth. In the Great Pyramid of Giza the southern shaft
was aimed at Sirius. which was associated by the ancients with the goddess Isis,
cosmic mother of the kings of Egypt.
Parsamian is an astral-physicist at the Byurakan Observatory and Internationally renowned lecturer on Astronomical History. He studied the Ancient Astronomy at Metsamor, Armenia's Stonehenge. "Sirius is most probably the star worshipped by the ancient inhabitants of Metsamor," Parsamian explains. "Between 2800-2600 BCE Sirius could have been observed from Metsamor in the rising rays of the sun. It is possible that, like the ancient Egyptians, the inhabitants of Metsamor related the first appearance of Sirius with the opening of the year."
The West African tribe known as the Dogon has foretold the existence of a dark companion to Sirius for thousands years. The Dogon are believed to be of Egyptian descent and they migrated to Mali, West Africa bringing with them this legend that is traceable to approximately 3200 B.C. Without the aid of modern optical instruments and mathematics they could not have possibly known the existence of this dark companion, the existence of which was theorised in 1844 but not photographed until 1970.
The Aboriginals of Tasmania were largely wiped out during the last century and were a completely different race from the mainland Australian aboriginals. It is not commonly known that their religion involved a worship of the ‘dark companion’ of Sirius as well. The conventional wisdom, as stated above, is that Sirius is significant because its rising is related to the New Year. However, Tasmania is in the southern hemisphere.
There are groups who believe that the ancient Egyptians came from Sirius and there appears to be circumstantial evidence to support this. Besides the link with the great pyramid is the issue that the ancient Egyptian culture seemed to come from nowhere. The usual evidence of cultural development is missing, which lends credence to the idea of an extra terrestrial injection of culture.
The historian Robert Temple has explored this in a remarkable book "The Sirius Mystery." He presents a persuasive case for the Dogons being the last people on Earth to worship extra-terrestrial amphibians who landed in the Persian Gulf at the dawn of civilization, and whose presence can be detected in drawings and legends of the gods of ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece.
