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British
science writer Andrew Collins has authored several of the most intriguing
books ever published on ancient mysteries. His best-selling 1997 book, From
the Ashes of Angels, traced the beginning of civilization to an area
near Lake Van in Turkey where a mysterious group of people called the Nephilim
appear to have lived around the end of the last Ice Age. Collins latest
book published in November 2006 in the UK, The Cygnus
Mystery, is in many ways a follow-up to all of his prior books and
begins at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. There, Collins was faced with the oldest
temple structures known to exist anywhere in the world. The enignatic
underground temples at Gobekli Tepe are dated to 11,500-years ago.
Collins
came to understand that all of the temples at Gobekli Tepe were oriented to
the North. This finding led him to evaluate important archaeological sites
in the Americas, India, China, Europe, and Egypt. He concluded that the
earliest religions of the world venerated the constellation of Cygnus,
which is located at the Great Rift in the Milky Way. Cygnus is typically
depicted as a swan or other bird and is shown in the oldest cave art in the
world. Rituals performed at various American mounds, at Maya and Inca
sites, at stone circles in Europe, and in Egypt appear to have have been
done with the idea that Cygnus was seen as the portal of souls to and from
the sky world.
Some
years ago it was suggested that the three large pyramids at Giza were built
to represent the stars of Orion's belt. This idea was exciting and new at
the time, but as many have shown, the three stars of Orion's belt don't
precisely fit over the three pyramids nor are the pyramids aligned in the
same way as the constellation of Orion is seen in the sky.
As
Collins came to see that Egyptian religious beliefs incorporated Cygnus
into their system, he was surprised to find that the three center stars of
Cygnus actually fit precisely over the three pyramids of Giza. He also
discovered that in 2600 BC the main star of Cygnus, called Deneb, rose on
the NE horizon in perfect alignment with the three pyramids and the ancient
site of Heliopolis. Then he found that Deneb set on the NW horizon in 2600
BC. It was clear that Giza was erected to somehow venerate Cygnus.
Visiting
Egypt to carefully calculate the movements of Cygnus, Collins was
eventually led to a sacred well in a closed Moslem cemetery at Giza. The
well, called Beer el-Samman, is located about 300 yards south of the
right front paw of the Sphinx. A village elder told Collins that the well
was "the entrance to Giza's Duat-underworld." The well is a
well-formed, brick-lined deep artisan well still used today and there is
evidence that blocked passages lie at its base. Interestingly, if the
remaining stars of Cygnus are placed over Giza, all of them fall on sacred
sites. The mouth of the celestial bird Cygnus, Albiero, lies at
Gebel Ghibli, the sacred knoll south of the Sphinx, quite close to the well
of Beer el-Samman. The correspondence between the idea that the well is the
entrance to the underworld and its location at the mouth of the celestial
bird Cygnus is intriguing.
The
famed American psychic, Edgar Cayce, told of a Hall of Records at Giza,
which was located somewhere underground between the Sphinx and the Great
Pyramid. However, Cayce's description of the entrance to the Record Hall
was that it was between the right paw of the Sphinx and the Nile, on a line
from the Great Pyramid. Curiously, Collins' discovery of the well at Gebel
Ghibli closely fits Cayce's description.
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