Another interesting detail in the Dogon cosmology is the description of a third star that exists in the Sirius system.

They say that digitaria - the white dwarf companion of Sirius A - “is not Sirius's only companion: the star emme ya … is larger than it, four times as light (in weight), and travels along a greater trajectory in the same direction and in the same time as it (fifty years)”.

Some anthropologists have ridiculed this idea. However, modern science had no reason not to believe the Dogon.

The suspected third companion was observed by a few renowned astronomers during the early 1900s, but the reports were never really verified. While a study in 1973 by Irving Lindenblad at the U.S. Naval Observatory concluded that there is no astrometric evidence for the existence of a third body in the Sirius system, another study in 2000 by a team of French astronomers arrived at a somewhat different conclusion. It seems there is still unstudied evidence out there.

And from a more theoretical perspective, John Harris, an expert on Babylonian astronomy, discovered an amazing resonance relationship that occurs within the Sirius system itself. Taking into account the paired highly eccentric orbits of Sirius A & B and their differing separations, he was able to integrate the various orbital parameters only by incorporating an additional “third” motion for Sirius A & B.

To be more specific: For the computations to make sense it requires a phase-locked, synchronous planar rotation of both stars with the same period of almost 50 years and also in the same direction as the orbits.

I think it is very interesting that Harris’ theoretical findings about a third motion in the Sirius system seem to corroborate the statement from the Dogon teachings.

However, a co-orbiting body with a different sized orbit and mass, having exactly the same orbital period, seems to be too incredible to accept even as a possibility. It would overthrow everything we have been told by the authorities about the laws of gravity - assuming we were told everything!

If the Sirius system has some unusual and still undiscovered properties that could even affect us here on Earth, then the term “gravity” would certainly have to be re-evaluated under a different light.

Maybe some stars have more mass than previously presumed. Maybe one can not classify everything according to Newton, making assumption about the masses of stellar objects based on computed velocities and distances or the kind of light they emit.

Aside from the fact that solid masses are an exceedingly rare thing in the universe, we also have to keep in mind that we are dealing here with the relatively unknown properties of super-dense matter.

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