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Is our Sun and Sirius binary?
A persistent and well-sourced esoteric tradition — drawing on ancient Egyptian astronomy, Walter Cruttenden's binary research, and the Dogon people's anomalous stellar knowledge — argues the Sun and Sirius share a long-period gravitational relationship that orthodoxy has not ruled out and cannot yet fully measure. The 8.6 light-year separation is not, by itself, disqualifying for a very long-period binary. The question remains genuinely open in fringe astrophysics and deeply embedded in ancient sacred cosmology.
Evidence
- Walter Cruttenden, director of the Binary Research Institute and author of 'Lost Star of Myth and Time,' presents the most systematic modern case.
- The Dogon people of Mali are the most cited ethnographic anomaly.
- Confirmed by recent data: Sirius is itself a confirmed binary (Sirius A and B, 50.1-year orbital period), which Cruttenden notes makes it an even more dynamically complex gravitational actor than a single star.
- Rupert Sheldrake and Terence McKenna both referenced the Sirius connection in the context of morphic fields and time-wave cosmology respectively, treating it as a node of meaningful astronomical recurrence.
- He argues that the precession of the equinoxes — conventionally attributed to a wobble in Earth's axis — is better explained by the Sun's slow orbit around a companion star, with Sirius as the primary candidate.