Andrew Collins is a well-known writer of speculat­ive theor­ies of human develop­ment and myst­er­ies. In his latest book, he turns to leg­ends of the stars and how cosmic influ­ences may have influenced human evolut­ion.


Cygnus is the Latin for swan. There happ­ens to be a very prom­in­ent con­stell­at­ion called Cygnus which curr­ently sits in the region of the sky not too far from the North Cel­est­ial pole (and actu­ally con­tained the North Cel­est­ial pole some 16,000 years ago). The book exploits the fact that this con­stell­at­ion was known by a number of anci­ent soci­et­ies and that the swan is a prom­in­ent char­ac­ter in many myth­o­log­ies.