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Nommos

Amphibious Sirius B teachers of the Dogon people

The encyclopedia, drawing on the Dogon ethnographic record and Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery, describes the Nommo as amphibious instructor-beings from Sirius B who shared astronomical knowledge with the Dogon of West Africa.

Also called: Nommo.

Home
Sirius B system
Star
Sirius
Alignment
Benevolent: Described as serving others and helping humanity

What they look like

Amphibious beings with humanoid upper bodies and fish-like lower bodies and tails.

What each source says

Per Temple and the Griaule and Dieterlen fieldwork, the Dogon knew details such as the orbital period of Sirius B, a star invisible to the naked eye that Western astronomy only found in 1862.

A–Z Encyclopedia · A–Z v3 entry N4; Robert Temple; Griaule & Dieterlen (Dogon ethnography)

The wider ancient-astronaut community pairs the Dogon's Nommo with the Mesopotamian Oannes and the fish-cloaked apkallu sages, amphibious teachers who rose from the water to give early peoples writing, law and astronomy. Many read both as memories of the same aquatic Sirian lineage. This pairing comes from the community, not from Ismael Perez.

Starseed community · Community tradition; Berossus via later Greek writers; Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery

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