The cygnus mystery: unlocking the ancient secret of life’s origins in the cosmos

From the distant past and a far-off star comes a revelation to change all we know about who we are, where we come from, and where we go from here

All around the world, ancient peoples fixed the location of heaven-the source of cosmic life and death-in the same segment of sky, the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. But why?

From the oldest temple in the world to the cutting edge of astrophysics, Andrew Collins sets out to find answers on an extraordinary historical quest to unravel the earliest beliefs of our most distant ancestors.

The Cygnus Mystery reveals that our ancestors knew what science is now telling us-that life did originate among the stars. Andrew Collins provides compelling evidence that

traces the DNA of life from shamanic art in Paleolithic caves to the foundations of the Great Pyramid, from psychedelic journeys in the Peruvian Amazon to Francis Crick’s discovery of the double helix

points to the origins of astronomy, literature, ancient cosmologies, and even transoceanic sea voyages-all at a time of sudden, striking change for humanity, some 17,000 years ago

high-energy subatomic particles in the walls of ancient caves came from a binary star known as Cygnus X-3-source of powerful cosmic rays likely to have reached Earth and accelerated human evolution during the last Ice Age