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203 genealogist in the United States, who has been studying and charting the bloodlines of the elite families for 26 years. He wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. David~ Paul Roland talks to Robert Temple, the author of 'The Sirius Mystery', a book centering on the ancient astronaut theory now re-released by Century. While other purveyors of the 'ancient astronaut' theory delight in sensational claims that our ancestors inherited precision engineering techniques, battery cells, lasers and even the principles of manned flight from extraterrestrials, author Robert Temple quietly concludes that our intergalactic visitors were content to leave us with the guidelines for establishing civilisation. Robert's exhaustive research, originally published in 1976 as 'The Sirius Mystery' (and republished this month in a heavily revised edition by Century), was unfortunately overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the theories of Erich Von Daniken. But after Von Daniken's conclusions had been largely dismissed as spurious speculation, Temple's sound scientific study has proven to be enduring inspiration to a host of other writers such as Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock and Colin Wilson who have ventured in search of the ‘true’ origins of civilisation. Temple, a highly respected classical scholar and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, was initially fascinated by his discovery that an African tribe called the Dogon appeared to have known for centuries that the dog star Sirius is actually a double-star a fact finally confirmed by astronomers in 1995. The star's companion, Sirius B, had been invisible to even the most powerful telescopes, although it's existence was suspected as long as 1830. The Dogon tradition records that knowledge of Sirius B and other astronomical data (such as the fact that the planets revolved around the sun, » that the moon was 8 dry and lifeless and that es a ee Be 9 SS OO BOL OO need ne Dae at ans Mee cies Oe Co Be Jupiter had moons and Saturn had rings) had been entrusted to their ancestors by fish-like gods from a third star in the Sirius system almost 5000 years ago. The Dogon called these gods the Nommo and had incorporated stories about them and Sirius in their rites and rituals. Temple's interest in a possible Dogon connection with ancient Egypt and Sumeria intensified when he recalled that the Egyptians held Sirius, the dog star, to be sacred and that Isis, the principal goddess of ancient Egypt and sister-wife of Osiris, was often depicted with two minor goddesses, suggesting that the Egyptians might also have known that Sirius was a three-star system. This knowledge was not incorporated in their hieroglyphics as it was reserved for initiates. He was also impressed by the fact that the Babylonians, who absorbed Sumeria into their empire in 2000 BC, believed that civilisation had been founded by fish Se ne DR SR En DY EES eee nett Lee a a eS a ee meaning ‘he who has residence in water". While Temple readily admits that there are still many unanswerable questions about which he can only speculate, he remains convinced that there were a number of roughly simultaneous landings by a technically advanced race of "extraterrestrials in ancient Egypt and Sumeria around 3500 BC. And that these visitors helped our distant ancestors to establish the first ARE THERE ANY GENEALOGISTS OUT THERE WHO WANT TO WORK TO UNCOVER THESE BLOODLINES WHICH HAVE HELD THE REIGNS OF POWER FOR SO LONG? IF SO, PLEASE CONTACT ME. The Sirius Mystery. by Paul Roland at Sighting Magazine gods under a leader named Oannes, a name strikingly similar to the Mayan word 'oaana’,