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The majority of the Dogon people live in what African country?

Mali. The majority of the Dogon tribe live in Mali near the city of Timbuktu. There is also a smaller population living in Upper Volta, also known as Burkina Faso.

The Dogon live along what river?

Niger. The Niger river has its source in Guinea, runs through northwestern Africa, and empties into the Gulf of Guinea.

The Dogon center their lives around what star of our Milky Way Galaxy?

Sirius. Sirius is actually a binary system, and it has even been theorized to be a tertiary system. The Dogon base their beliefs on a tertiary Sirius system.

The Dogon believe that what came from the Sirius system?

Extraterrestrials. The Dogon believe that an extraterrestrial race visited Earth and created life.

Name one of the two French anthropologists who received secret information from the Dogon.

Griaule & Dieterlen. Four Dogon priests approached the anthropologists and told them that they were ready to tell them the secrets of their tribe. This came after the anthropologists had lived with and studied the tribe for over 15 years.

The Dogon imparted information about nuclear weapons, Pluto's moon and the AIDS virus, among other things.

f. Actually, the Dogon possessed knowledge about Jupiter's moons, the Sirius system and the DNA sequence, among other things.

No more than 6 months after the Dogon had divulged their secrets to the anthropologists, one of the anthropologists mysteriously disappeared and was not heard from again.

f. Marcel Griaule died in 1956, and Germaine Dieterlen died in 1999, aged 96.

Carl Sagan was a skeptic of the Dogon's mysterious self-achieved knowledge. He believed that the Dogon got their information from Europeans who traveled to Africa in the 1920s.

t. Sagan believed that either the Europeans imparted the knowledge to the Dogon in the 1920s or that they received it from a local school in Timbuktu or from other people near the area of the Dogon prior to the anthropologists' study.

What is the name of the book by Robert Temple that goes into the life and mystery of the Dogon?

The Sirius Mystery. 'The Sirius Mystery' hit the shelves in 1976. It explores the Dogon culture in great detail and attempts to explain the Dogon's mysterious knowledge of our universe.

What is the name of the Dogon creator of life on Earth?

Nommo. The Dogon believe that Nommo created life. He possesses very similiar qualities to figures of other religions - for example, the Dogon believe that Nommo was crucified and resurrected, and will return to Earth in human form.