Sirius
(22.5”L x 13”W x 23”H)
In StarSentient® SIRIUS, an oceanic, siphonophore sentiment has again manifested. It is crafted from three tiers of thick blue, aquamarine and deep, green-blue, solid glass with all elements in as made, gloss finish. The aqueous quality of the glass pervades it due to the thickness of each of the elements. However, it is much less green and more aquamarine than the photos show. This sculpture is channeled for the addition of internal LED lighting, if desired and hangs from the ceiling.
SIRIUS, is named from the ancient Greek word for scorching or glowing, “serios,” Sirius’ luminosity and brilliance has profoundly, important history in historical world cultures, most particularly for the Dogon tribe of Mali, west Africa. They believe that their ancestral, spiritual progenitors were amphibious, twinned, androgynous beings called the Nummo, who came to teach them from a planet in orbit around a dwarf star. That star, Sirius B, is not viewable from the Earth unless using very strong magnification. This star is now known to be of a pair coupled with the massive Sirius A, making it a binary system (A circling B every 50 years). That this tribal people knew of the existence of this second star, 10,000 time fainter and undiscovered by modern astronomy until 1862, remains a marvel still to be scientifically explained, unless, of course, one accepts their sacred myth story with astronomical knowledge said to come from the Nummo. In the Dogon ethos, these are said to have come to Earth in a spacecraft over 5,000 years ago. There are numerous other features of our own solar system that the Dogon people know about and attribute to the teachings of the Nummo.
We can only see Sirius A with the naked eye and standard telescopes and call it Sirius. Sirius A is a main sequence younger blue-white star 200-300 million years old that is 1.7 times as large as our Sun. The two stars are about 8.6 light years away, making them amongst the very closest of our celestial neighbors situated in the Canis Major constellation. Canis means dog in Latin but the Greks had already named the constellation Megas Kyon (“Great Dog”). It would seem that the famous colloquial appellation for it, ”The Dog Star.” began as an ancient reference to the annually hottest, mid-Summer, “dog days” when the constellation was in the Mediterranean night sky and its brightest star, Sirius, rises there just before dawn and lingers until made invisible by the sunlight of day.
