Sirians

The Sirius lore carries two natures. The Sirius A branch is described as tall, blue- or lavender-skinned humanoids with aquatic-adapted features, sometimes gill-slitted: benevolent, philosophical, and drawn to water. The Sirius B branch runs the other way: a cold-blooded, warrior-caste reptilian people, sometimes said to rule the humanoid branch, sometimes to war against it. The contactee literature keeps the two entangled as one bloodline with two temperaments.

The foundation is Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery (1976), built on anthropologist Marcel Griaule's fieldwork among the Dogon of Mali in the 1930s and 1940s. Griaule reported the Dogon held detailed knowledge of Sirius B, a companion star invisible to the naked eye and not confirmed by Western astronomy until 1862, including its roughly 50-year orbit. Temple argued the knowledge came from ancient amphibious visitors, identifying them with the Nommo of Dogon cosmology. Later writers, including Murry Hope (The Sirius Connection, 1996) and Patricia Cori, expanded both branches, with the reptilian reading pulling toward the wider Draco mythos.

Sirian contact claims are channel-derived rather than sighting-based: no occupant-report tradition attaches to them. The Dogon connection functions as the lore's claimed historical encounter.

Sirius runs deep in esoteric tradition well beyond ufology, from ancient Egypt's Sothic calendar to Theosophy, which gave Temple's thesis fertile ground. The "Sirian" remains a fixture of starseed identity culture.

The Dogon case, the lore's one testable pillar, is contested at the source: anthropologist Walter van Beek's later fieldwork found no widespread Dogon knowledge of Sirius B, suggesting Griaule's methods projected or seeded the material, and skeptics note European astronomical knowledge could have reached Mali before the 1930s. Astronomers add that Sirius is a young system unlikely to host evolved life. Temple's defenders maintain the orbital-period detail resists easy transmission. The verdict on the star-knowledge decides the verdict on the Sirians, and it remains argued.