On Thursday January 17th the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will

review and discuss "The Cygnus Mystery" (2006)  and "The Cygnus Key"

(2018) by Andrew Collins. These recent books are in the tradition of

"Hamlet's Mill" (1969), "The Sirius Mystery"(1976) and Gordon White's

"Star Ships" (2016) and they all fall into the category of popular

celestial archaeology. Most importantly for us in the Hermetic community

they all seek to validate our ancient Initiatiatic Code which holds that

we descend from the Heavens and to the Heavens we shall return via the

Milky Way as our "River of Souls." Like so many of his predecessors in this

Collins locates the ancient Shamanic origins of this in old Hyperborea

in North Central Asia. He presents a good case for Cygnus the Swan

bringing down the souls like the stork brings babies. He suggests that

the  Paleolithic genius-giant Denisovian hominids recently discovered in

Siberia were the originators of of our Celestial mythology and that they

carried it all the way down to ancient Egypt. I am not sure I agree with

all his ideas but for the most part he seems on the mark -- so if you

want to follow the Starry Path to immortality, tune in and we'll fly

with the swans.