The planet, Kepler-452b, is about 1,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It's about 60% bigger than Earth, NASA says, and is located in its star's habitable zone -- the region where life-sustaining liquid water is possible on the surface of a planet.

It takes 385 days for the planet to orbit its star, very similar to Earth's 365-day year, NASA said. And because it's spent so long orbiting in this zone -- 6 billion years -- it's had plenty of time to brew life, Jenkins said.

The shape of the megalith
is intended to be as it is.

The Kings Stone represents the star
Deneb in Cygnus and shows birds
of various kinds from various perspectives.
It is a masterpiece of Stone Age art.

From the side-front
the entire megalith
is the head of an eagle
and a smaller bird head
can also be seen at the top

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452

Kepler-452 is a G-class star located about 1400 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus.[1] It has a similar temperature as the Sun, but is 20 percent brighter, four percent more massive and has a 10 percent larger diameter.[2][3] It is also 1.5 billion years older than the Sun, having an age of about six billion years.

The exoplanet Kepler-452b, orbiting in the habitable zone of Kepler-452, was discovered in July 2015 by the Kepler spacecraft.

7,500-YEAR-OLD STONE CIRCLE IN ARMENIA ALIGNED TO CYGNUS'S BRIGHTEST STAR

A Report by Andrew Collins, 20.04.10

A new study into Armenia's Carahunge stone circle complex, has shown that it is arguably one of the oldest known megalithic sites outside of Turkey, dating to around 5500 BC. Moreover, investigations by Russian prehistorian Professor Paris Herouni indicate that Carahunge (car means "stone" in Armenian, and hunge means "voice" or "sound"), located some 200km from the Armenian capital Yerevan, not far from the town of Sisian, was created as an astronomical observatory marking the movement not only of the sun and moon, but also the stars.

Indeed, Herouni's work at Carahunge was impressive enough to draw in the expertise of the late Professor Gerald Hawkins, who was impressed by the thoroughness of the survey undertaken by his Russian colleague.

Key hole to Cygnus

More significant is that Carahunge's principal stellar alignment is towards Deneb, the bright star in the constellation of Cygnus the swan.

A number of the standing stones bear smooth angled spy holes that are 4 to 5cm in diameter, each one being angled towards different points on the horizon or ancient targets in the heavens.

A key stone had a hole that was focused due north towards the meridian. This suggested that it targeted a bright star at its culmination - i.e. the highest or lowest point it reaches as it revolves around the north celestial pole.

Of course, gravity will affect design. In any given mass category high-gee animals should have shorter, stockier bones than those evolving in low-gee environments. To provide proper support, bone cross-section must increase directly with weight. Weight is the product of mass and gravity, so bone diameter must be proportional to the square root of gravity.

Let’s apply this to man. The typical human femur, the most perfectly cylindrical and largest single bone in our bodies, measures 3.5 centimeters in diameter. Using the above square-root relation, we find that the thigh-bone should increase to 4.9 cm on a two-gee world or shrink to 1.6 cm on a 0.2-gee planet for identical support of a 70 kg human body mass. Experiments have confirmed that animals reared in high gravity grow thicker bones, stronger hearts, and lose fat, but alien creatures will not appear wildly over- or underbuilt as compared with Earth life of equal mass.

Blajeny and Proginoskes
by mscorley

And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.

And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

In the Levant, polydactylism—an excess of fingers or toes—was considered to be a mark of the Rephaim, a race of giants. If you were a giant, you apparently needed more fingers or toes. According to Genesis, the Rephaim were one of the peoples who lived in Canaan before the Israelite conquest (see Genesis 15:18–21). In Deuteronomy 3:11, we learn indirectly about the impressive stature of the Rephaim. Og, the last king of the Rephaim, possessed an iron bed “nine cubits long and four cubits wide.” A cubit is about 18 inches, so Og’s bed measured over 13 feet in length.

Weapons of Giants: Huge Bronze Axes Discovered in Denmark



A pine tree farmer in Denmark has made an astonishing discovery: five enormous Bronze Age axe heads buried in a field near Nørre Snede in Jutland, Denmark. Did these weapons belong to the legendary giants that are said to have inhabited the area?

Norse mythology is rife in stories about an ancient race of violent giants known as the Jötnar. Banished to Jötunheimr by the ruling divinities (the Æsir), these giants were oftentimes hostile to mankind.

But is there any historical backing to these tales? As a matter of fact, many believe the presence of giants in worldwide mythology was inspired by a race of flesh-and-bone humanoids of giant statures.



The axe heads measure 12 inches (30 centimeters) in length and each one weighs two pounds. Dating revealed they were made sometime during the 16th century BC, making them one of the oldest weapons of their kind discovered in Denmark. They are twice as heavy as axe heads usually are, suggesting that the men who wielded them must have been giant in stature.

The Flag of the Nordic Council is white, with a stylised circular motif of a white swan upon a blue (Pantone Reflex Blue C) disk. The Swan has enough wing feathers standing for the eight members and territories of the Council: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Swan symbol

The origin of the Swan symbol is the 5 Nordic swans, which appeared for the first time on a poster for 'Nordens Dag' ('Nordic Day') in 1936 based on Hans Hartvis Seedorff Pedersen's poem "The Nordic Swans".

In 1956, stamps illustrated with the 5 swans, although in different designs, were issued in the Nordic countries.

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The Cygnus Mystery

All around the world ancient peoples fixed the location of heaven in the same segment of sky, the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. But why?

From Göbekli Tepe to the Great Pyramid to cutting edge of astrophysics, Andrew Collins sets out to find answers on an extraordinary historical quest to unravel the sky-religion of our most distant ancestors.

The Cygnus Mystery provides compelling evidence that …

- The veneration of Cygnus as a bird associated with cosmic life and death goes back 17,000 years to when the constellation occupied pole position in the northen night sky

- Cygnus is at the root of all the world's religions

- The origins of astronomy, literature, ancient cosmologies, even transoceanic sea voyages all occurred some 17,000 years ago

- Cosmic rays from a binary star known as Cygnus X-3 helped accelerate human evolution during the last Ice Age

- Traces the very DNA of life from shamanic art in Paleolithic caves to the foundations of the Great Pyramid, from psychedelic journeys in the Peruvian Amazon to Francis Crick's discovery of the double helix

- Reveals that our ancestors knew what science is now telling us - that life on Earth originated among the stars, a fact known and accepted by our ancestors

The March 2006 issue of ASTRONOMY NOW cites the findings of British anthropological writer Denis Montgomery. In 1995 he proposed that high levels of Beryllium-10 in the Antarctic and Greenland ice cores for a period of 2,000 years, c. 35,000 BP, argue that sudden transitions in human behaviour patterns around this time show that the two events are not exclusive to each other. Most obviously, the flowering of cave art in Western Europe, c. 32,500-30,000 BP, is a clear sign that something quite extraordinary was taking place (and, of course, c. 17,000-14,000 BP, when further high levels of Be-10 are present in the same ice cores).

Based on suggestions made by American and Russian scientists working on the Greenland and Antarctica ice cores at the beginning of the 1990s, Montgomery proposed that the source of the cosmic rays was a close supernova, most likely the one that caused the beautiful stellar debris caught on camera by the Hubble space telescope and known to astronomers as the Cygnus Veil, or Cygnus Loop. Located in the right wing of the celestial swan, the shock waves of this cosmic event were believed to have ripped open the Earth's protective layer of ozone, causing cosmic rays and ultraviolet radiation from the sun to rain down on the unsuspecting world beneath. For many years the exploding star would have been brighter than the full moon, making it a blinding light source that turned night into day.

Premature deaths, cancer and mutations would have resulted in both animals and humans on a massive scale. Yet very gradually the supernova would have burnt out, and an immunity achieved by the human survivors, our own Homo sapien ancestors, who were the successors of the less adaptable Neanderthal peoples.

Even though the 35,000 BP cosmic event highlighted by the Be-10 levels in the ice cores alluded to Montgomery is the same as the one proposed by the Meinel Institute, said by them to have taken place c. 40,000 years ago, the suspected source of the cosmic rays is unlikely to have been the Cygnus Veil, or Loop. This is now known to have been created when a dying super giant in this suspected binary system exploded into a supernova just 5,000 to 8,000 years ago. Moreover, at worst this spectacular event, which would have temporarily made it one of the brightest sources in the night sky, was far too distant to have affected life on Earth.

This reassessment of the Cygnus Veil comes from revised data regarding its distance, now thought to be around 1,400 light years away, instead of the presupposed 150 light years banded around in the early 1990s. Moreover, no other similar event is known to have occurred around 35,000-40,000 years ago, even though close supernovae cannot be ruled out as the cause of mass extinctions on Earth, either in the past or in the future.

Swan Symbolism

Because of its pure white color, the swan is a symbol of light in many parts of the world.

As a dream symbol, the swan can signify self transformation, intuition, sensitivity, and even the soul, the ‘higher Self’ within each person.

Though in some regions it was considered a feminine symbol of the moon, in most it was a masculine symbol of the sun. In ancient Greece, for example, the swan was linked to Apollo, the god of the Sun. The god Zeus took the shape of a swan to get close to Leda, with whom he had fallen in love. And in Celtic myth, a pair of swans steered the Sunboat across heaven. As a feminine symbol, the swan represents intuition and gracefulness, and goddesses such as Aphrodite and Artemis were sometimes accompanied by swans.

As a symbol in alchemy, the swan was neither masculine nor feminine, but rather symbolized hermaphroditism or ‘the marriage of the opposites’, fire and water. It was an emblem of mercury, as it was white and very mobile, because of its wings.