Black History Month fact #16
The Dogon of Mali, descendents of Ancient Egyptians, located the star of Sirius and its companion star millenia ago, around 3200 BCE, with the naked eye.
The star, which scientists call Sirius B, wasnât even photographed until it was done by a large telescope in 1970.
According to their oral traditions, a race people from the Sirius system called the Nommos visited Earth thousands of years ago. The Nommos, according to the Dogon legend, lived on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed on Earth in an âarkâ that made a spinning decent to the ground with great noise and wind. It was the Nommos that gave the Dogon the knowledge about Sirius B.
The legend goes on to say the Nommos also furnished the Dogonâs with some interesting information about our own solar system: That the planet Jupiter has four major moons, that Saturn has rings and that the planets orbit the sun. These were all facts discovered by Westerners only after Galileo invented the telescope.
Dogon mythology tells that the Nummo preferred dark, cool caves and liked to move about at night rather than in the daylight. This can explain how they were able to detect Sirius with the naked eye: their eyes were more sensitive to light in the dark.
Black History month fact #28: Rome had an African emperor
fact #27: Haiti was the first free Black nation of the âNew Worldâ
fact #26: The Pan African flag and its colors.
fact #25: Judaism originates in Africa.
fact #24: Buddhism originates in Africa.
fact #23: Africa is bigger than you think.
fact #22: The origin of black female sexual exploitation in US media.
fact #21: Catholic Virgin Mary was Black.
fact #20: Africans founded Chinese dynasties.
Fact #19: Africans invented the calendar.
Fact #18: Africans came before the Mayans.
Fact #17 Africans discovered America
Fact #16: Africans saw planets with the naked eye.
Fact #15: Africans in Europe
Fact #14: vase Heart symbol
Fact #13: Chess originates in Ethiopia
Fact #12: The Great Pyramid of Giza and Pi (3.14)
Fact #11: The Rosetta Stone
Fact #10: The Shabaka Stone
Fact #9: Ancient Egyptians wore locs.
Fact #8: Africans had walled cities.
Fact #7: Africans had the first sewers, toilets, and perfumes.
Fact #6: The first modern humans were born in Africa
Fact #5: Ancient Egyptians were Ethiopian-descendent.
Fact #4: Origin of Greek language
Fact #3: West African empires were wealthy
Fact #2: Etymology of the word Egypt
Fact #1: Pyramid builders were Black.
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