In Search Of... Season 4 # 13, The Dark Star

The relationship between a remote African tribe and the heavens is described in a tribal dance. They tell about a distant dark star invisible to the naked eye. Now the dark star has been found by advanced science. A people called the Dogaan live in the south of the African desert. Yearly the Dogaan knowledge is passed down to the next generation in a celebration. A large circle and its four satellites is shown in an ancient painting in a cave. Here the teaching takes place. Among the Dogaan suicide, murder or theft is unknown, they believe of a perfect existence. The known is linked with the unknown.

Dr. Hans Guggenheim learned that the understanding of the stars is linked with the growing of grain. The planting is totally dependent on a very precise day because the tribe would not survive in the desert otherwise.
After 5 years Dr. Guggenheim was accepted amongst the elders. The knowledge says that the Numo descended from another star and entrusted them with 366 symbols. The symbols reveal an infinite number of stars. The universe began with a vast explosion and left nothing but a shell. This empty shell became the star called the Pontolo. In 1950 the Dogaan star was discovered as Sirius B. By their knowledge about the stars the Dogaans discovered the functions of the body and knew about blood-circulation long before Western civilization learned about it. Every 60 years there is the very biggest festival of the Dogaan – exactly when the star is closest to Earth: Every 60 years.