We (the org represented on this website) have our stuff (Dark Tradition) in order; this has nothing to do with the Dark Tradition or anything serious. The Light Tradition is also originally part of the Dark Tradition (the Light burns IN the Darkness). This fish tradition, or in fact the entire pagan tradition with their gods and planets and sons of gods and semi gods, is wholly separate except for the dualistic confusion it may have caused with the Light Tradition peoples, the Sun cults or even the Logos Cults that demonised the Darkness. One need only look at Christianity to see the Light tradition mixed together with the Fish tradition! It's under everyone's nose. The real Priests of Dagon of old wore a mitre headdress and the Catholic religion uses this same design on their headdress! Jesus is Icthys and he is also the Light. Anything of Darkness is demonized. There is a good example of Fish/Light and dualism.
The mythopoetic method, especially in the esoteric schools, involves layers of meaning; the literal meaning being only for the fools. This can be seen with this example I'll use with Cadmus, a Dagon cultist who sets off for Greece. Getting there, he erects his fish temple and the myths are all abut his fifty warriors, fifty this and fifty that; the number fifty being important in all the Fish Traditions. That refers to the star Sirius, the orbit, etc. 50 years. Then Cadmus has a change of heart and decides he wants to join the dark mother cult of Athena. So what happens to all of Cadmus's myths about 50 warriors? Well, the myth says a Serpent comes up against the 50 warriors and they fight each other - and of course, 5 are left loyal to Cadmus. Five is always the number involved in the Dark Tradition, especially the Eastern-rooted traditions. So, having erased his own myths from the Dagon cult, he now joins up with the dark cult with a new myth to back up his conversion. If Cadmus further told us that a Bright Warrior slew the Serpent and seven new warriors sprang up, it would be saying that he left the Dark Mother cult and joined up with one of the Light Tradition cults.
A note to newcomers: Too bad LaVey was never involved in any of this, and didn't know any of it. If anything, he foolishly turned these types of people completely off with his heavy handed trashing of the politics of the day (tolerant politics). He'd have at least given people FIVE "crown princes of Hell" instead of the Christian imitation of four. It should be known that Nemo who has the Temple of the Vampire was probably shown a copy of this material in here since I, early on, 1990 or so, xeroxed it in its handwritten form for Gilmore of the CoS to give to Nemo. Nemo was familiar with the Sirius Mystery - we talked on the phone and he said this. I also wrote him a very long letter (never kept a copy) all about this. He made up a lot of his Vampire lore using this Sirius lore as the model.
This is a real KEY to mythopoetic forms: 50 is always Fish or Oceanic. 7 is always Light or Logos tradition. 5 is always Dark esoteric Tradition. 5 inside of 7 is the older pure Dark Tradition with the Light contained within it. 3 is the later trinity type cults. Dark versus Light are the dualistic Solar cults. When cults and cultures were usurped - wiped out more or less - the older traditions got co-opted and often inverted by the conquerors and altered to fit their own mythemes. E.g., there are almost no traces of the previous matriarchy - patriarchy wiped it out. The same goes for about 90% of what was once in the Library of Alexandria - it was destroyed by the conquering and usurping cult of Christianity who, nonetheless, still celebrate those older pagan holidays with new stories to tell about why they celebrate. The Tau was once the symbol of the Mother Goddess in her wrathful form. Now it is a symbol of Jesus Christ, something comically the opposite of the original.
There is a recognizable pattern from the most ancient days on up to more familiar times that indicates to anyone familiar with this that cultural trends and groups of people replaced what was there. Aside from the numbers I've shown as a key, all fish or scale motifs were replaced by bird and feather motifs, sometimes showing a transition where both exist together. The Dark Tradition incorporates the Light Tradition within it, and the Light spoken of is the Vajra within, the inner Logos; but that got replaced by Sun Cults worshiping literal light and often condemning the darkness. The earliest people were matrilineal if not outright matriarchal; usually water played an important part and so did the literal earth (ground). The Solar cults were patriarchal and tended toward sky gods.
Abbreviations:
Fish Tradition = FT
Dark of Void Tradition = DT
Light or Vajra Tradition = LT
Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft and others = CM
CONTENTS:
Dogon Tribe - pure Sirius Fish Tradition (the veracity of the original document Temple relied on is in question - but that does not matter: this is still a story, a MYTH).
Egyptian, intermixed with the DT and with Sirius, Set/Osiris being Sirius, but Apap and such other entities being DT. (Based on older information on Egypt).
Sumerian
Babylonian
Greek, synthesized many elements as many of these different cults and peoples were in Greece.
Hindu
Jewish-Hebrew
Early Christians
Gnostic, Chinese, Polynesian, Persian, American Indian
Cthulhu Mythos (what the SSS was all about! The SSS used the Baphomet in 1963 at least). No other group used it. This section is included since some of the original Lovecraft Circle, and definitely the SSS people involved in the Cthulhu Mythos, knew this lore and the various traditions inside out and definitely put what they knew in their stories. This is the reason why so many people read the Cthulhu Mythos and think "this stuff is real." It was deliberately done. For this reason, we have included the Cthulhu Mythos section in an otherwise serious essay of comments on the Sirius Lore.
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THE DOGONS AND THE SIRIUS LORE
The information given here of the esoteric knowledge of the Dogons was given to French anthropologists by four priests and priestesses of the Dogon Tribe of Mali in Africa who claimed they had only a "slight acquaintance" with this extremely secret body of knowledge. These revelations represent only one phase of a level of the teaching permitted to ranking initiates, of which there are four graduated levels of initiation.
1. Giri so or word at face value: the lowest level consisting of simple explanations involving mythical characters, often disguised, their adventures simplified and not linked together. "It had to do with invisible deeds concerning the ordinary rituals and materials;" Cf. Greek section on mythology of gods and heroes - Sirius Mystery, R. Temple.
2. Benue so, or word on the side, includes giri so but also a thorough study of certain parts of rites and representations. Their coordination only appears within the great divisions of learning which are not completely revealed.
3. Bolo so or word from behind, completes the preceding learning and furnishes the syntheses that apply to a vaster whole, but does not include instruction in the truly secret parts of the tradition.
4. So dayi or clear word, which concerns the edifice of knowledge and its complexity. Note that so dayi sounds like the Sod Ihoh of the Hebrews (see note at end of Dogon section).
The Dogons do not claim to have been visited by extraterrestrial fish men or "Nommo" as they call them. They make no such claims. They learned the following from their forefathers. Ethnologists say the Dogons are the cultural and biological descendents of "ancient Greeks" from the Isle of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea. (These are Turkic-Turanian peoples: Reading of the Lemnos Island Inscription, By Polat Kaya, M. Sc. E. E.). The Lemnians themselves claimed descent from the fifty Argonauts of Jason in Greek legend who, according to the legend, went to Libya, migrated westward as the Garamantians, were driven south and eventually reached the River Niger in Mali after many centuries to interbreed with the natives and teach them. We will see later that the legend of the Nommo existed throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near-Eastern world. It is very common for teaching or doctrine to survive in a relatively pure form unchanged after many centuries once it has been transmitted to an isolated, backward people.