Cygnus: The Entrance To Heaven

Now let's talk about Cygnus in ancient cultures.

So to start this off, let's break down the ancient understanding of the Cygnus constellation, which was regarded by just about every single civilization.

Ancient Egyptian cosmology talks about a bird known as the Great Cackler, a cosmic goose who brings the universe into manifestation by letting out a divine honk or call.

It lays the sun egg from which the Creator God emerges.

His name altering depends on which cult centers the myth is attached to.

On the famous round zodiac of Dendera, created as late as 50 BC, there appears a cosmic goose, and careful analysis of its position in the night sky shows that it formed a part of a constellation composed of the stars of Cygnus and the bright star Altair in Aquila.

the Celestial Eagle, an area of the Milky Way dominated by the dark nebulous region known as the Great Rift.

This indicates that the ancient Egyptians saw the point of creation as located in the vicinity of Cygnus.

Now let's go to India.

Brahma, the creator god, is said to have emerged from a cosmic egg laid by Hamsa, the swan goose, responsible, like ancient Egypt's great cattler, for creating the divine sound that brought the universe into being.

Brahma rides on a sky car pulled by seven swans, while the swan goose is also the avatar of his wife, Saraswati.

the goddess of music, writing, and divine inspiration.

She is the personification of what was once India's most sacred river, the Saraswati, which rose in the foothills of the Himalayans in southwest Tibet.

In ancient Vedic astronomy, Hamsa, the swan goose, was associated with the stars of Cygnus.

demonstrating once more that shamanic-based cultures throughout the world saw this constellation, located on the Milky Way, as the point of creation in the entire universe.