The Cygnus Key

New evidence showing that the earliest origins of human culture, religion, and technology derive from the lost world of the Denisovans

• Explains how Göbekli Tepe and the Giza pyramids are aligned with the constellation of Cygnus and show evidence of enhanced sound-acoustic technology

• Traces the origins of Göbekli Tepe and the Giza pyramids to the Denisovans, a previously unknown human population remembered in myth as a race of giants

• Shows how the ancient belief in Cygnus as the origin point for the human soul is as much as 45,000 years old and originally came from southern Siberia

Built at the end of the last ice age around 9600 BCE, Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey was designed to align with the constellation of the celestial swan, Cygnus--a fact confirmed by the discovery at the site of a tiny bone plaque carved with the three key stars of Cygnus. Remarkably, the three main pyramids at Giza in Egypt, including the Great Pyramid, align with the same three stars. But where did this ancient veneration of Cygnus come from?

Showing that Cygnus was once seen as a portal to the sky-world, Andrew Collins reveals how, at both sites, the attention toward this star group is linked with sound acoustics and the use of musical intervals "discovered" thousands of years later by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Collins traces these ideas as well as early advances in human technology and cosmology back to the Altai-Baikal region of Russian Siberia, where the cult of the swan flourished as much as 20,000 years ago. He shows how these concepts, including a complex numeric system based on long-term eclipse cycles, are derived from an extinct human population known as the Denisovans. Not only were they of exceptional size--the ancient giants of myth--but archaeological discoveries show that this previously unrecognized human population achieved an advanced level of culture, including the use of high-speed drilling techniques and the creation of musical instruments.

The author explains how the stars of Cygnus coincided with the turning point of the heavens at the moment the Denisovan legacy was handed to the first human societies in southern Siberia 45,000 years ago, catalyzing beliefs in swan ancestry and an understanding of Cygnus as the source of cosmic creation. It also led to powerful ideas involving the Milky Way's Dark Rift, viewed as the Path of Souls and the sky-road shamans travel to reach the sky-world. He explores how their sound technology and ancient cosmologies were carried into the West, flowering first at Göbekli Tepe and then later in Egypt's Nile Valley. Collins shows how the ancient belief in Cygnus as the source of creation can also be found in many other cultures around the world, further confirming the role played by the Denisovan legacy in the genesis of human civilization.

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Andrew Collins is a science and history writer who investigates advanced civilizations in prehistory. He is the co-discoverer of a massive cave complex beneath the Giza plateau, now known as "Collins' Cave." The author of several books, including Origins of the Gods and Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, he regularly appears on radio shows, podcasts, and TV series, including Ancient Aliens, The UnXplained with William Shatner, and Lost Worlds. He lives in Essex, England.

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Acknowledgments
Preface: Last of the Denisovans

PART ONE
GÖBEKLI TEPE

1 An Artist's Work

2 Mystery of the North

3 Celestial Signs

4 The Enigma of Pillar 43

5 Scorpionic Gateway

6 Cult of the Leopard

PART TWO THE BIRTH OF EGYPT

7 The Lost Oasis

8 Egyptian Genesis

9 Mystery of the Helwan Point

10 Visions of Helwan

PART THREE SECRETS OF THE PYRAMIDS

11 A Grand Design at Giza

12 Orion versus Cygnus

13 Osiris Arisen

14 Starry Destiny

15 Womb of the Stars

PART FOUR COSMIC CODE

16 Giza Revelation

17 The Hidden Key

18 Cosmic Symmetry

19 Harmonic Convergence

20 Music of the Spheres

21 Secrets of the Gods

22 Celestial Swan Song

23 Sonic Temples

24 Shaping Sound

PART FIVE GENESIS POINT

25 The Road to Helwan

26 Division of the Two Lands

27 Who Stole Iwnw?

28 Place of the Bennu

29 The Mountain of Anu

30 Homeland of the Primeval Ones:
Part I--The Coming of the Shebtiw

31 Homeland of the Primeval Ones:
Part II--Memphite Origins

32 Homeland of the Primeval Ones:
Part III--A Certain Ratio

PART SIX
STARRY WISDOM

33 Bird on a Pole

34 Siberian Roots

35 The Land of Dawn

36 Counting Time

37 Revolution 432

38 Time Turned to Stone

39 The Cygnus Key

40 The Denisovan Legacy

41 Gateway of the Gods

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