Are The Three Pyramids at Giza Aligned to Orion or Cygnus? by Dr. Greg Little

(I-Newswire) November 10, 2006 - In his 1997 book, "From the Ashes of Angels," British science writer Andrew Collins traced the beginning of civilization to Lake Van in Turkey where a mysterious group of people called the Nephilim lived around the end of the last Ice Age. Collins latest book published in November 2006, "The Cygnus Mystery," continues the quest and begins at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. There, Collins was faced with the oldest temple structures known to exist anywhere in the world. The enigmatic 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 depicted as a swan or other bird and is also shown in the oldest cave art in the world. Cygnus was seen by the ancients 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 initially exciting, 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 found 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 rose on the NE horizon in perfect alignment with the three pyramids and ancient Heliopolis. Then he found that Deneb set on the NW horizon in 2600 BC. It was clear that Giza was erected to venerate Cygnus.

At Giza, Collins was led to a sacred well in a closed, off-limits Moslem cemetery at Gebel Ghibli, the sacred knoll of Giza. The well, called Beer el-Samman, is 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." Interestingly, if the remaining stars of Cygnus are placed over Giza, the star forming the mouth of the celestial bird Cygnus, Albiero, lies at Gebel Ghibli, 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 stated that the entrance to the Record Hall 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 fits Cayce's description perfectly.

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