The Cygnus Mystery

"In The Cygnus Mystery, Andrew Collins traces astronomic lore back to 15,000 BC, when Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, was the Pole Star. At that time, our Paleolithic ancestors practiced their religious rituals in caves deep in the earth...In the same era, humanity underwent a change in physical and neurological makeup so fast it seemed to occur overnight. What caused this sudden leap forward? The Cygnus Mystery proposes that it was a dramatic rise in cosmic rays reaching Earth--and provides evidence that the rays, which left subatomic traces in those same deep caves, emanated from a binary star system known as Cygnus X-3"--BOOK JACKET.