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...SIRIUS MYSTERY...
...Space-Gods Revealed by Ronald Story is a coherent and much-needed refutation of Von Däniken's theories. Robert K.G. Temple's The Sirius Mystery argues with some sophistication the likelihood that superior beings from Sirius visited earth between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago. Both books are squarely in a modern fiction-science mode that had its recent renaissance during the early '50s when the country was overtaken by mass UFOria...
Rocket Ships. Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery is a bit harder to dispose of. Temple is a 30-year-old American who holds a B. A. in Oriental studies and Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania and is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in England, where he now lives...
...mysteries, an thropological dates and the tricky cross currents of comparative mythology. The kernel of his thesis lies with the Dogon, an African tribe living in Mali. After studying their legends in the works of French anthropologists, Temple became convinced that the Dogon had precise knowledge of the star Sirius thousands of years before telescope technology revealed such information to astronomers...
...there was the vague feeling back in Washington, even in the White House, that none of this would cure the new malaise very much. At the Vail branch of the White House, Ron Nessen, the President's press secretary, attributed the problem to dog days, and indeed, Sirius the Dog Star, which governs this temperamental season in mythology, seemed to have an unusual hold on the affairs of state...