by Robert K.G. Temple

May 1987
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CONTENTS

• Acknowledgements

• Author’s Note - What is the Mystery?

1. PART ONE - The Sirius Question is posed

1. The Knowledge of the Dogon

2. A Sudanese Sirius System - by M. Griaule and G. Dieterlen

2. PART TWO - The Sirius Question is rephrased

3. A Fairytale

4. The Sacred Fifty

5. The Hounds of Hell

6. The Oracle Centers

7. Origins of the Dogon

8. The Rising of ‘Serpent’s Tooth’

9. A Fable

APPENDICES

1. The Moons of the Planets, the Planets around Stars, and Revolutions and Rotations of Bodies in Space - Described by the Neoplatonic Philosopher Proclus

2. The Surviving Fragments of Berossus, in English Translation

3. Why Sixty Years?

4. The Meaning of the E at Delphi

5. Why the Hittites were at Hebron in Palestine

6. The Dogon Stages of Initiation