It should be noted that the Dogon tradition 54 includes a full awareness that planets orbit suns , a knowledge that contains a rough awareness of our solar system. There are two symbols for the Star of Women , and these will also return again. Its symbol contains two pair of lines that are relevant features of a Dogan legend. I must step out of context to share some most relevant examples. A great many of the most ancient of Egyptian temples , such as the temple of Isis at Denerah, were created so that the light of the helical rising of Sirius would travel down the main corridor to place its red glow upon the altar in the inner sanctum of the temple - when that light reached the altar, the beam of light from Sirius was transformed into Sothis , the Star Goddess.
Research is currently in progress , to validate a similar transformation.
There is one last Dogon symbol, collected by the French researchers, that is most relevant. In 1950, the two French anthropologists returned home and published their ethnography of a quaint African tribe , with a very complex mythology linked with mythical knowledge about unseen stars. Then Fate stepped in. One of the researchers just happened to glance at another scientific paper, an astronomical report. The rest is history.