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Review of "The Cygnus Key" by Andrew Collins (Part 1)

1/24/2018

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THE CYGNUS KEY: THE DENISOVAN LEGACY, GÖBEKLI TEPE, AND THE BIRTH OF EGYPT
Andrew Collins with Rodney Hale | 464 pages | Bear & Company | 2018 | ISBN 978-1591432999

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​British writer Andrew Collins opens The Cygnus Key, due to be published this May, with an acknowledgements page giving ample thanks to two cash cows whose profiteering largesse has made his work profitable: Ancient Aliens and Gaia TV. That he treats these outlets for the outré as something serious should tell us everything we need to know about the intellectual firepower behind his elaborate house of cards suggesting that civilization began with the Denisovan hominins, who, through a long memory as the Nephilim of myth, inspired ancient Egypt through the remnants of their hitherto unimagined civilization. And yet it is the preface to the book that really sets up the more disturbing layers of Collins’s narrative, one implicit in his several earlier books on the same subject but here accidentally made clear. In the fictional opening scene of the preface he imagines the extinction of the Denisovans and assigns to these miraculous generators of civilization one trait that no great godlike men can lack: white, or at least light, skin. He takes time to claim that when the Denisovans succumbed to a hypothetical Homo sapiens invasion and interbreeding, the Denisovans would have noted that “their skin [was] darker” than the improbably light Denisovans, whom science knows only from a few bones.
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​It’s only a throwaway phrase, but the fact that the skin color of the Denisovans is not known raises uncomfortable questions about why Collins would associate his heroes with whiteness in the absence of evidence.
 
Collins waves away his own fictionalization of the Denisovans’ last days by dismissing question of accuracy as irrelevant. It’s only a story, after all. Instead, he asks us to believe that the Denisovans were the giants of old, the men of renown. He implies that we can accurately recreate the Denisovan anatomy entire from the finger bone, two teeth, and a toe bone by which the entire subspecies is known. The robustness of the finger bone suggests a body somewhat like Neanderthal, but he leaps to imaginative lengths to project this into the realm of Biblical giants.
 
Within mere paragraphs, Collins is deep into speculative territory, claiming with little explanation that the Denisovans identified the constellation Cygnus the Swan (Collins’s own personal hobbyhorse) with the very act of creation at the dawn of time, and that they believed in life after death. There is no way to prove any of that from a few bones and a handful of artifacts. He ends the preface by claiming that he will try and the he intends to prove that the Denisovans invented civilization.
 
To do so, he starts with a lengthy recycling of claims about Göbekli Tepe taken from his last several books on the subject, as well as some of his online articles. This includes his unproven assertion that a small carved rock depicts the pillars of the 12,000-year-old monumental Turkish site. He is also concerned with the appearance of round holes at the site and the question of why ancient funerary monuments around the world have round holes. Besides being the easiest shape to bore through rock, Collins suspects that circles have deep spiritual meaning because eyes are circular.
 
He further wishes to understand Göbekli Tepe by suggesting that it aligns to the stars. To seek out such alignments, he notes that the ancient site is located close to Harran, the medieval home of the Sabians, a city of star-worshipers noted by Arab writers. He suggests that it is “reasonable to conclude that some semblance of the beliefs and practices of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic peoples of Göbekli Tepe had somehow been absorbed into the religious traditions of the earliest Harranians, the precursors of the Sabians or Chaldeans, who occupied the region through till medieval times.” It is not reasonable, merely speculative. The vast time distances involved—12,000 BCE to 1200 CE—make it impossible to trace direct lines of connection, especially about specific beliefs. When we compare almost unimaginable length of time to the known differences between Mycenaean religion in 1200 BCE and Archaic Greek faith in the same location by 700 BCE—a distance of just five centuries—and the almost insurmountable difficulties of tracing continuity even when we know the gods share the same names and the people spoke the same language, the claim that Neolithic faith can be reconstructed from Arab accounts of medieval star worship becomes deeply problematic, more so when Collins tries to pretend that the bone plaque is carved in the likeness of a future Egyptian hieroglyph for mountain and that three dots on it are three stars of Cygnus’ wing, an oddly arbitrary suggestion born of Cygnus obsession. He says that computer analysis proves that the plaque accurately depicts these stars in the correct position, but that depends, I suppose, on which Göbekli Tepe pillars you think it shows and what direction you assume the viewer is standing in. Assumptions pile on assumptions.
 
Based on this, Collins repeats his earlier claim that the various enclosures of Göbekli Tepe were aligned to Cygnus and that new enclosures were built periodically when the old ones fell out of alignment due to the precession of the equinoxes. This might be true or might not, but there is nothing special at the site to suggest an interest in Cygnus or a recognition of it as a constellation. As Collins himself offhandedly notes, the buildings might also be explained more generally as facing the Milky Way. He hides this amidst some self-puffery about the Origins of Civilization Conference he produces, as though it were an academic symposium and not a fringe history entertainment carnival.
 
Collins also tries to make the case that Pillar 43, which depicts a menagerie of animals, including several birds and a scorpion, is actually a diagram of Cygnus and Scorpius. He claims that “Hellenic” mythology identified Cygnus the Swan with a vulture, but I can find no evidence of this outside of Collins’s own books. He sources the claim to Richard Hinckley Allen’s 1899 book on Star Names, where the claim appears in reference to a different constellation, Aquila: “As the eagles were often confounded with the vultures in Greek and Roman ornithology, at least in nomenclature, Aquila also was Vultur volans…” Collins used the transitive property to apply this to Cygnus because of a Roman mistake in which a few writers conflated Cygnus with Lyra, which was known as Vultur cadens. One vulture is as good as another, apparently. Collins has a talent for stating as fact speculative hypotheses with unsteady foundations.
 
He builds another argument off of a similar misrepresentation of Victorian scholarship. According to his end notes, he takes from Robert Brown’s Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations etc. the claim that the constellations of Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila were the Stymphalian birds of the Hercules myth and also vultures. Brown actually wrote, speculatively, that the three bird constellations were the “demon-birds” hunted by Marduk, whom Brown, following incorrect Victorian belief, claimed to be Hercules. He also said they were kites (birds of prey), not vultures. The inferences here are even more obscure: Hyginus (Astronomica 2.8) said that Cygnus was wrongly known by the generic name “the Bird,” and Brown suggests that this means that it might have been a kite. Collins sees vultures and kites as interchangeable and therefore makes Cygnus a vulture and applies all of Brown’s speculation to Cygnus, and chooses to then further equate the “Demon-Birds” with the Stymphalian Birds… and I know the reason why.
 
Robert Brown, Jr., in “The Celestial Equator of Aratos,” published in the Transactions of the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists, ed. E. Delmar Morgan, vol. 2 (London: Committee of the Congress, 1893), 478-479, claims that the Stymphalian Birds are actually Mesopotamian in origin:

The constellational birds Eagle and Raven are stellar reduplications of the tempest, the Akkadian “divine Storm-bird,” Lugal-tudda (“the Lusty-king”), called by the Semitic Babylonians Zu, a word meaning both “stormy wind” and a kind of vulture. […]  The Stymphalian birds are said by Mnaseas, the learned Alexandrian grammarian, to have been daughters of Ornis, i.e., the constellational Bird of Aratos, known as Kyknos, the Swan; and Kyknos is also represented as a son of Ares, and is said to have been killed in single combat by Herakles, just as Hyginus tells us that Herakles slew the Stymphalian birds “in insula Martis.” The Aryan Ares-Mars is the analogue of the Euphratean Storm-god, and so the Storm-bird-clouds, children of the latter, become connected with the former.
​Granted, this is an odd thing to know off the top of my head, but I read this paper for my book Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages. Brown was possessed of the racism of his time, and he believed that Greek mythology represented a pure Aryan faith corrupted by Eastern decadence. Replace a few words—try “Indo-European” instead of Aryan—and overall Brown had an inkling of modern ideas of the influence of the Near East on Greece’s Indo-European heritage, though one much less developed or complete than today. Collins, who doesn’t understand Brown’s influences, or his errors, takes from it only what he wants: connecting Cygnus to Mesopotamian psychopomps, even though few modern scholars would support Brown’s chain of reasoning. Modern scholars suggest that the Mesopotamians saw Cygnus as a “panther-griffin” or “panther,” not a bird. Heracles/Hercules and the Stymphalian Birds might actually have an indirect Mesopotamian origin, though, inspired, as Classical scholar M. L. West noted in The East Face of Helicon, by Assyrian “bird-strangler” images, though this is speculation.
 
I dwell on these minor points to make a bigger one: Collins grossly oversimplifies, connects dots that are of uncertain relationship, and never admits where he is following outdated, incorrect, or highly speculative claims from centuries past. Instead, he delivers Victorian verdicts with the zeal of a convert and expects that the reader will never check the sources to see how rickety his constructed fantasies are.
 
Anyway, none of this is new. This material, and the succeeding chapters defending vultures and scorpions as essential elements of shamanic tradition, and Neolithic Turkish sites as practitioners of a sky-based faith seeking to send souls to the Milky Way, are retreads of material from his last few books, often with minimal differences.
 
The second section of the book makes an even more difficult leap, suggesting that the civilization that grew up along the Nile came to Egypt from southern Turkey, five thousand years earlier. To make this case, he devotes a lengthy passage to Helwan, a late Paleolithic / early Neolithic settlement (technically classified as “epipaleolithic,” c. 18,000-9,600 BCE) near what is now Cairo. This culture may have had contact with the Sinai, and thus the early proto-Semitic world beyond. Collins instead sees Helwan as the last stop on a daisy-chain of civilizational knowledge that defused from Göbekli Tepe down to Egypt over thousands of years. Helwan points are found in Helwan, the Levant, and at Göbekli Tepe, so there is perhaps some suggestion of a connection, but Collins overstates the degree of connection since the points are thought to have originated in Mesopotamia and spread north and south. So far as I have read (albeit not comprehensively), it is unclear if the Egyptian points represent diffusion or independent development of a similar form. Collins’s discussion is dry, technical, and boring, and yet somehow also manages to avoid dealing seriously with the question of whether a real connection exists.
 
The third section purports to reveal the secrets of the pyramids, which seems to have nothing to do with the subject of the book. This secret is the suggestion that the pyramids were surveyed and laid out using equilateral and right triangles from a nearby hill. My, the Nephilim’s secret knowledge keeps getting revised downward. This geometric talk exists mostly to justify Collins’s attack on Robert Bauval’s (and by extension frenemy Graham Hancock’s) Orion Correlation Theory. Collins and Hale decided that the pyramids actually represent the wing of Cygnus. This claim “sent my mind into a spin,” Collins says, because “promoting the discovery would bring me into conflict with Robert Bauval and his supporters.” Truth be damned! This is personal! Stupidly, Collins takes great pains to explain how thoroughly he was forced to research this new idea in order to justify contradicting Bauval, though he offers no such assurance that he was equally thorough in rewriting mainstream history. That is simply assumed to be wrong. Oh, and all this took place in the middle 2000s, and (like so much of the current volume) was reported in an earlier Collins book, Beneath the Pyramids ​(2009).
 
The remainder of this section is an overlong argument that the Egyptians placed their heavenly paradise at the north celestial pole, and therefore near to Cygnus—though the celestial pole would answer to the issue with or without Cygnus, however it was envisioned. He does this in order to justify the remainder of the book, in which he attempts to argue a very small, dull fringe theory: namely, that the identification of the imperishable circumpolar stars (including Cygnus during its time as one) diffused from Denisovans to Paleolithic humans and then to Egypt. It’s a rather tiny hill to die upon, but tomorrow we will explore his quixotic charge up this molehill.
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Initiate
1/24/2018 09:54:44 am

It is notable that Collins and some of his other "giant" sidekicks have had a few confabs recently at the Rudolph Steiner House in England. Seems there may be some theosophical connections in this crew. Shades of Blavatsky in everything this gang come up with. Gobekli Teppe is just what it appears to be. A monument that is more crudely constructed than what came later. It may not even have any celestial associations at all. The oldest monument and already they are astronomers of the highest order recording this in stone? Nah.

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Only Me
1/24/2018 10:23:22 am

So, Collins had a lot of fringe ideas with paper thin connections of his own making, but no linchpin to hold them together. With the discovery of the Denisovans, he now has one. Cool. Looking forward to reading tomorrow's post.

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Scott Hamilton
1/24/2018 01:26:29 pm

The real funny part is that he wasn't waiting for the Denisovians. He used to claim the shamans preserving knowledge/civilization were what he called the "Swiderians", or what archeologists call the Swiderian culture. (We know nothing about the ethnic beliefs at the time, and the culture was just humans and not a sub-species, so real archeologists try not to make them sound like one.) Why Collins became so obsessed with Swiderian culture was not really clear to me in the book of his I read. He made a bunch of sweeping statements about them being Neanderthal-hybrids and traveling all over the world,even though I don't know of any proof of that. Once the Denisovians were discovered he dropped the "Swiderians" so fast you'd think they'd asked him for a cut of his book sales. At least Swiderian culture existed at about the right time for his speculations about a Younger Dryas event (if nowhere near the right place), the Denisovians are way too early.

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Only Me
1/24/2018 03:45:36 pm

Interesting. Thanks for the info, Scott.

Jaroslav Kukla link
8/11/2018 05:15:35 pm

It is not too wise to tie one cave to an entire " culture" or " people", but it is correct to see on the stelaes of gobekli tepe,the astronomy! Their( Collins,Hancock) recent " discovery" of the CygnusX1-Black hole-as the WOMB of souls, I wote about,5 years ago,when solving the modern masonic astronomy of 9/11,
Bloody Masonic Fingerprints Left On 9/11 Crime Scene! Furthermore,I gave exact dates,such as 11,967 BC and 9,745 BC ,
or 2,630 BC for the pyramids of Giza,being built and encoded date into the Minkaure pyramid-slope,as D.G.N.( DoGoN),43.50°in arc minutes for years,as 2,630' and 2,630BC!

Paul S.
1/24/2018 02:11:16 pm

The Denisovans and Gobekli Tepe are perfect for fringe writers to incorporate in their speculation because they definitely existed, but little is known about them with any degree of confidence. This makes them ideal targets for ill-supported theories.

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Bob Jase
1/24/2018 02:48:03 pm

All these mysterious superior white civilizations all getting killed off by hordes of people of color - knida makes me wonder what was so superior about them that they couldn't defend themselves.

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Americanegro
1/24/2018 06:39:12 pm

Said Rhodesia.

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Americanegro
1/25/2018 03:58:54 pm

Holes at Göbekli Tepe?!! That's clear evidence of a Norse presence, probably Götlanders on a land uptaking/acquisition mission. Now it's clear that the structure itself is a land claim. Of course the academics will cover it up.

What it needs is a visitors center with public bathrooms.

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Norbert Fiks link
1/28/2018 11:11:40 am

I stopped after reading a couple of paragraphs of your review. Collins' "theories" are so ridiculous, that it even hurts only to read
about it.

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JUDITH GRAHAM link
2/17/2018 04:09:20 pm

May I please see your research and identified facts which disqualify any of Collins' work, or at least the basis for your comment about his theories. I am trying to weigh information factually and am not familiar with your work. I thank you.

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Jaroslav Kukla
8/15/2018 04:16:10 am

One of them is his silly interpretation of the " Vulture stela 43",telling us that the " ball" on the right wing is Northern,polar hemisphere! Plus,turning the Swan upside down...The CygnusX1-Swan-Black hole is the primary gocus,clearly visible on Cygnus X1-Wikipedia,the Black hole encircled by RED,on the right wing,for some reason,A.Collins fo not want to see! All the surrounfing dtelaes are VULVIC HOLES,yet,he shovel fown our throats his silly theory,that the " ball" is Polar circle! I advice to him to look at Eikipedia,plus at Codex Xouche-Nuttall,page 36, depicting the true path of the souls, just as depicts it out,the Way of Dead in Teotihuacan,15°28' NE-SW! MATCHED BY EVERY " HOLY WAY" and angle-slopes of Bethlehem-Jerusalem,Luxor-Karnak,or Arrow in Stonehenge,and so on! He has some serious errors in his book,The Cygnus Key! Because the KEY IS THE BLACK HOLE ON THE RIGHT WING OF THE SWAN!!!

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Georg D.
1/30/2018 11:36:29 am

Mainstream science is not any better. Gravity waves exist because of an event billions of years ago detected with a crude laser experiment by two old researchers who then won millions of dollars for fake science and fake gravity waves. If you can't prove it in a lab then sorry but it's not real.

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Americanegro
1/30/2018 05:29:36 pm

Please to be defining "lab".

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JUDITH GRAHAM link
2/17/2018 04:06:20 pm

I am trying to learn all I can about the ancients. My passion has been in Egypt and was thrilled that a theoretical connection to Goebekli Tepi may exist. I have met Andrew Collins and found him to be most interesting. Noting all of the attacks written and posted in this article, would each of you kindly post your own research so that I may be enlightened. I am duly sickened by Trumpism commentary and would really appreciate seeing facts that offset Collins' theories. Thanks

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Peter B
7/6/2018 09:53:22 pm

Collins's logic has more than a whiff of Robert Templery about it. Why does anyone think fit to publish this kind of crap?

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Jaroslav Kukla
3/30/2019 05:56:01 pm

You are uneducated and arrogant in this subject! This book is very good,mainly from the astronomical point of view and the cycles of life-death-life....I am into this subject for 27 years,knowing far more than Collins had revealed! His Swiderians, and now Denisovans-theory chapters I ignore..

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Jaroslav Kukla
8/11/2018 05:55:49 pm

I'm in archeoastronomies for 27 years on my own. Mr.Collins is correct in the astronomy,but I don't buy any Swiderians or Denisovans as a " culture" or group of people,based on discovery of just ond ir even five caves! That' s absurdity from a writer of s such calibre!
And I must criticise him for falling short calling the Black hole on myth terms, what was done already in Hamlet's Mill,in 1968,while the reader expected it on ckear terns: Black hole-CygnusX1-the Swan, also known as as Yama,in the ancient Egypt and world,since Yama was the god and goddess of the dead,meaning dezd people,and their deoarting souls across Orion and Black hole,to the galactic( " cosmic") WOMB= galactic double centre!For the purpose of purification and rebirth-resurrection!
A such writer should know that Milky Way was called in ancient Egypt as Meri-yam, from where came biblical Miriam and Mary,Mother of alk Gods!
Ancient Egypt was Ta(v)- meri...
A.Collins failed in many ways in his newest book,The Cygnus Key!
He is avoiding to mention modern masonry,their architecture and number patterns.
He failed to mention the SWAN,being the " sacred bird" of his,British royal family...He missed the Tibet most sacred lake,the Swan lake( Yamzho Yumco) as the Dragon( Milky Way)...
He missed the world famous Zouche-Nuttal Codex,page 36,clearly depicting the Milky Way as Dragon,havjng two CUBICAL JARS filled with human souls in purgatory washing anew process,and that the CUBE-CAA'BA or KABAH, being the galactic WOMB at the centre of Milky Way! And JAR-POT-CUP-CHALICE,of Aquarian Age,head of Anno Magnus,by the Potter( Y.S.R.= DjoSeR)- Creator! See the Kaa'ba in Mecca or Revel.21:17!
Collins failed in seeing the Codex Mendoza of 7 and 9 " constellations" with calendrical number pattern! That one alone,best explain the numbers 7 and 9! He never oticed the Aztec stone calendar of Tonatiuh having 12x3 feet,or 144×36 inches= 5,184, the 1/5th of thd Grest solar year!
He failed to show the Gobekli Tepe Vulture stela 43 as the Swan constellation with Black hole on its right wing,as shown in CygnusX1-Black hole-WIKIPEDIA!
This stela,43 can be clearly compared to the famous Lid of Pakal,he had failed,just as with the Chinese famous T-shaped silk from the tomb of Lady Tao( Tav?) of Ma-wa g-dui!
Cygnus constellation isn't the Womb! It is the galactic double centre!
Furthermore,what is he writing ablut in his book,I wrote about,5 years ago,on the web sites! See: end gimes in 2032-2033,the rezl mzyan prophecies...Bolon Yokte Ku, or, Bloody Masonic Fingerprints Left On 9/11 Crime Scene!

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John
9/6/2018 02:17:42 am

Your scathing review is someone misleading. The story is mostly an alternative view with the intro being noted as a fantastic concept by the author. The Denisovans he images as brown skinned but with black or blond hair and white husky-like irises. So your debunk as it being a racist or Eurocentric work is wrong. It also has a lot of hypothetical writing in the vein that Neanderthals and similar hominids interbred with humans coming out of the subtropics. It is likely Australian Aborigines are mixed with Denisovans as we do know the DNA of “those few remains”. What many amateurs and hardcore academics would dismiss as bad fringe theory is really complex analysis with citation leavened with speculation and fantasy concepts, all fantastic areas are outlined as pure conceptual speculation. Rigid “scientific” thinking has drifted from this curious altruism to more minimalistic secularist tones, and this really as a educated resourced view on anthropology and archaeology.

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Jaroslav Kukla
3/30/2019 05:50:41 pm

Andrew Collins lost the concept.I'm in the ancient archeo-astronomies for 27 years with some great results! The ancient world left us( to our current civilisation) a great message: cyclic life.The souls of thedeceaed human beings departs fo the phallic, male stargate in the Belt of Orion( Min,Tav,Hammer of Thor,etc.),the galactic anticentre,with the M42/ 43 nebulaes,also known as Trapesium...The " symbolical testicles with semen,yam"...The phraoh's soul was releasedto Orion,the celestial Smith, with its famous Hammer,or Sword,etc...The Belt of Orion with Trapesium nebulaes is clearly visible as the letter T-tav,dominating the winter skies. The soul travels-gravitate towardthe galactic double centre-the cosmic/ galactic Womb for purification and rebirth-resurrection! Clearly depicted on the Codex Zouche- Nuttal,page 36,Aztec codex with Milky Way as the Dragon-Serpent in the sky! In the middle of its body are two cubical JARS- POTS with sailing human souls across! The Dragon clearly swallows the Red man,and is giving a birth to the Yellow man... Closeto the Dragon mouth are lined up,the White and Black man...I believe,each race of this four,dominate one" Sun Age" in the Great
Year( Anno Magnus)...Belt of Orion is the galatic anticentre and entrance of the souls into the cycle of rebirth-resurrection...
The CygnusX1 is the yonic,female stargate,also known as the Swan,or Yama.Locted in the area of Northern Cross,also known as the Swan,flying away from the Deark Rift/ Cleft of Milky Way,also known as Mesopotamia,separted by the two biblical rivers,Pishon and Gihon,as described in Genesis 2:8-14,where all the GOLD is( Black hole,the Swan,or,Yama), the exit for the purified souls for another cycle of life on Earth,entering the newborn infant's body,I believe,in accordance with the karmic laws! The Northern Cross,or the Swan,is the most sacred place in the Milky Way,all religions and many myths are focused at!This galactic Mesopotamia-Dark Cleft is lso the ncient Pradise,Eden,Heavens,Valhalla,Bujan,Nava,and so on,with dozens of name round the world! The reason,why the Swan is sacred bird, plus Swan lakes,like the Tibetan Dragon resembling
YAMZHO YUMCO LAKE! Swan is the sacred bird of the British masonic queen..Swantovit( Victorious Swan) was the Highest god of the Western Slavs on the Rujana/ Rügen island of fertility( Ruja= to be in sexal heat)...With Scandinavin,Viking Sven,germanic Schwan,Geek Leda,Russian Lada and Lebed,Slovak Labuť,and so on...The 3 pyramids of Giza and Teotihuacan,match not only the Belt of Orion stargate,but also the 3 wing stars of the Swan-Cygnus constellation,therefore,the 3 stars of the Northern Cross...Considering this " mistery" being solved..Plus the empty granite coffins in pyramids or in Cuzco...Dueo the rebirth-resurrection process...The reason,why old people turninto " infants,loosing hair,teeth,wearing daipers with cooling body,but the mind,spirit is always young an connected to the childhood...Ready for he next cycle of life trough the two " mountains of Christ Transfiguration" , Hermon and Tabor( Tav)....

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Dot dot com
9/19/2019 02:45:05 am

Jealous much? Someone didn’t get enough attention as a child. What a fucking whiny little bitch you are. For someone who can’t stand Collins you sure do put a lot of time and effort into continuously talking about him. Grow up and have some respect. Not everyone is going to have the same theories. If that was the case nothing would ever be figured out. Now, go back to your mothers basement and suck it up buttercup. By the way, I know who Andrew Collins is(brilliant) but who are you again? Drawing a total blank here. Sit down, be humble.

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Samuel Rivera link
4/10/2020 12:56:51 pm

Way are there two main megaliths in the center of each temple? Way are they dressed with what it looks like Priestley gowns with belts and what it seems H symbols on them? Are these representing the first tow priests in the world, Adam and Eve? Is this way they were expelled from the garden? Way all, the discussion by all scholars look away from this discussion and ignore it?

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