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The Cygnus Mystery: Unlocking the Ancient Secret of Life's Origins in the Cosmos
 
 

The Cygnus Mystery: Unlocking the Ancient Secret of Life's Origins in the Cosmos [Kindle Edition]

Andrew Collins
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The Cygnus Constellation is the key to unlocking humanity’s belief in the origin of life in the heavens.

It was a universal belief in ancient civilizations that life came originally from the cosmos and ultimately would return there after death. The shamanic journey was always to this sky-world – and it appears that it was always located in the direction of the stars of Cygnus – also known as the Northern Cross – and was accessed either via the Milky Way or an imagined cosmic axis. Andrew Collins has found that this ancient belief is based on an early astronomy which is about 17,000 years old. All over the world, standing stones, temples and monuments are orientated towards the rising and setting of the stars of the Cygnus constellation or the “entry point” of the Milky Way.

Collins has discovered that the use of deep caves by Palaeolithic man was essential to the rise of religious thought and the belief in life’s stellar origins. Science has now confirmed the existence of high-energy particles in the caves – particles that come from a binary star known as Cygnus X3. Therefore it would seem that these ancient people were aware of what science is now telling us – that the DNA of life came originally from deep space

About the Author

Andrew Collins is a historical writer and the author of several ground-breaking books, including From the Ashes of Angels, Gods of Eden, Gateway to Atlantis, and Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy co-authored with Chris Ogilvie-Herald. He is the organiser of the annual Questing Conference, Britain's largest conference on alternative history.

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  • Publisher: Watkins Publishing (2 May 2011)
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  • Language English
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must reading for archeo-astronomy fans, 6 Dec 2006
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The Cygnus Mystery sits in the series of The Sirius and Orion Mystery. Much less than those two attempts, Andrew Collins does not try to hammer the point continuously that he is right and this is what we have to believe. Instead, he presents an overview of starlore around Cygnus, within various cultures, from across the world. It presents a powerful case (eg Inca towns like Cuczo and its Sacred Valley and Newgrange) that several ancient monuments were aligned specifically with this constellation in mind. Evidence that it therefore might be part of a Paleolithic astronomical framework, which Collins is able to confirm when he analyses some of the Southern French cave drawings.

Why Cygnus? Perhaps because Cygnus has recently been found to be the location of a more than bizarre and unexplainable astronomical phenomenon, labelled "cygnets", which would best be described as some type of energy sent from this location into the rest of the universe, but apparently specifically aligned towards our Earth.

Collins has tried to map Cygnus within the ancient astronomical lore and it should be seen as a powerful primer: presenting the evidence that Cygnus was important. Required reading for anyone interested in archaeo-astronomy... and a book upon which several others hopefully will be based.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Cygnus Mystery, 20 Dec 2006
I absolutely LOVED this book. I made sure I got my copy early, as I have been waiting for another book from Mr Collins, since loving his last book, too.

Mr Collins has a habit of writing books that give you a unique goosebump effect, found nowhere else. This book is somewhere between Robert Graves and Stephen Hawking.

It's a rare type of book for the subject matter, too. I've read plenty of books on the topics covered, shamanism, stone age culture, Avebury, and astrophysics, and have to say that The Cygnus Mystery covers them all with a degree of smartness you don't usually find. Andrew's book stands on its own, as is, with very good, solid research, and a real depth of grounded information, rather than a whole bunch of conjecture and jargon. You know from reading it that he really knows his stuff. So many authors nowadays don't do enough research, or use previous ideas and rehash them. Andrew's done something new and challenging and unique, and that has been a pattern for him throughout his long career as a writer.

His writing style is great, very unputdownable. I found in The Cygnus Mystery a book I am sad to finish, and can't wait for his next effort, which I'm sure will be just as good.

I'm sure Andrew will be thought of in years to come as a real ground-breaker in a number of different fields.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but loses the plot towards the end, 10 Feb 2010
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There are a lot of this kind of book around at the moment and a lot of them leave you thinking that their arguments are so full of holes that you can not take their theories seriously. Selective evidence gathering are also common but that isn't so bad in my view as the people issuing counter arguments could be accused of the same thing.

This is a very dry book to start with with the author covering a lot of old research and applying his own logic and investigations on top. The early chapters stack up to a decent theory but I couldn't help thinking that the author was seeing Swans everywhere.

The final part of the book becomes its Achilles heel as he dips into some of the things that Graham Hancock suggested in his "Supernatural" which seen more speculative than the serious points made in the previous 75% of the book.

Worth a read but only if you intend to go through a lot of the other material in the genre as a lot of them overlap and will you probably get a more rounded view of the late prehistoric world.
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