West-Africa Sky-Visitor Folklore.

This node covers West-African oral traditions, especially among the Dogon and neighboring peoples of Mali, describing sky and water beings sometimes read as ancient extraterrestrial visitors. The ethnographic record of these myths is genuine, but the 'ancient astronaut' interpretation — popularized by Robert Temple's Sirius-B claims — is unsupported and likely shaped by 20th-century cultural contamination. It is best classed as folklore.