Lyrans and the Vegans
A contactee and a channeler built humanity a family tree in the stars, with Lyra as the root race and Vega as the darker daughter. Here is where that story actually comes from, and every claim on this page wears its evidence.
Ask certain corners of the internet where the human race began and you will not get Africa. You will get a constellation. The claim is that every humanoid species in the galaxy, ourselves included, traces back to a single root race that arose near the stars of Lyra, then split, spread, and in one branch turned on another. It is one of the most sweeping origin stories anyone has ever told. And almost none of it comes from the research file that is supposed to hold it. So let us open the file first, then go find where the story actually lives.
01What the file actually holds
The corpus file's own catalog entry for the Lyrans (section 3.7) is brief and unsteady. It describes them as human-like in appearance, with accounts that vary from source to source (some even claim cat-like features), and gives their alleged origin as the Lyra and Vega star systems. The document does not hedge about its own confidence here: its header rates this entry Tier 4 on its five-tier scale.
In that same entry, the Lyrans are cast as nothing less than humanity's genetic ancestors, sometimes called the 'original humans,' and painted as explorers and colonizers who spread across multiple star systems. It is an enormous claim to hang on a single catalog row, and the file seems to know it, which is why the whole entry carries the lowest confidence it offers.
The Vegans appear in the file exactly once, as a single row in a second table of 'additional reported types' (section 3.9): 'dark-skinned humanoids,' origin 'Vega (Lyra),' source given only as 'channeled sources.' The document rates this row Tier 4 as well. That one row and the brief Lyran entry are, together, the entire corpus record for a story that claims to explain the origin of the human species.
02The two people who told it
The file names two primary sources for the Lyran narrative, and the first is the contactee Billy Meier, whose claims begin in 1975. The document does not present him uncritically: it flags in its own notes that Meier's supporting photographs are 'widely considered hoaxed.' That matters, because those photographs were the evidentiary heart of the case, and the corpus doc itself sets that flag against them rather than treating them as genuine.
The second named source is not a witness at all but a channeler: Lyssa Royal Holt, whose channeled material the file lists as a primary source distinct from Meier's contactee claims. Here the corpus record simply stops. It names 'Lyssa Royal Holt channeling' and leaves it there, with no title, no date, and no co-author. To find the actual text, you have to leave the file entirely.
So we left it. The text behind that bare phrase is a book: The Prism of Lyra: An Exploration of Human Galactic Heritage, by Lyssa Royal and Keith Priest, first published in December 1989 by Royal Priest Research Press and still in print in later editions (current ISBN 9781891824876). This is a verifiable publication, and it is the single most important source for everything the myth actually contains. Yet it appears nowhere in the corpus file's bibliography by title, date, or author.
The book comes in two halves. Part one is the material Royal states she channeled in 1989 from a multidimensional entity she calls Germane. Part two is a transcript of a 1999 workshop in which Royal, channeling Germane again, expanded on the same ideas. So the origin story of the entire human species, in this telling, is a record of one person speaking in the voice of an entity, twice, ten years apart.
And the credentials behind it are worth stating plainly, because the book is a set of claims about human genetics, galactic history, and astronomy. Its co-author, Keith Priest, is described in publisher and bookseller biographies as an 'independent researcher' and a complementary-medicine practitioner in acupuncture and homeopathy. He is not presented as an astronomer, a physicist, or a historian. That does not make the book wrong, but it tells you exactly what kind of authority it carries, and what kind it does not.
03The root race and the split
Here is the story the book actually tells. Per the Germane material, humanoid consciousness first arose in the region of the Lyra constellation, and from there, in the text's own words, 'civilizations began exploding in all directions' to found the galaxy's other humanoid star-nations. This is the load-bearing beam of the whole mythos, the 'root race' premise. And it is worth noticing that the corpus file contains none of it. The file preserves only the bare tag 'Lyra/Vega star systems.' The cradle-of-all-humanoids story lives entirely outside it.
From that Lyra root stock, the material says, two named strains split apart. The Lyrans are described as light-skinned, a 'Caucasian type.' The Vegans, from the star Vega within Lyra, are described as darker-skinned and are compared explicitly to Native American, East Indian, and Aboriginal Australian peoples on Earth. Read that comparison carefully: it maps the real human populations of one planet onto an invented family tree of the stars, which tells you a great deal about where the story was really written.
| Strain | Star origin | How the material describes them |
|---|---|---|
| Lyrans | Lyra | Light-skinned, a 'Caucasian type' |
| Vegans | Vega (within Lyra) | Darker-skinned, compared to Native American, East Indian, and Aboriginal Australian peoples |
One thread of this does have a second, independent life inside the corpus file, and honesty requires flagging it. The file's separate entry for the Nordic / Pleiadian type (section 3.3) lists that group's alleged origin as 'Pleiades star cluster; OR Lyra constellation.' That is a second, more generic trace of the same Lyra-origin idea, one that does not cite Royal and appears to predate her specific version. It rates a notch higher, Tier 3, but it corroborates only that the idea circulates, not that it is true.
04The family tree, and the war
| Root branch | Said to have begat |
|---|---|
| Lyra (the root race) | Terra (Earth humans) and the Pleiadians |
| Vega (within Lyra) | Orion and Sirius |
The material does not stop at two strains; it draws a full genealogy. Lyra, it says, 'begat' Terra (Earth humans) and the Pleiadians directly, while Vega 'begat' Orion and Sirius. The distinction is deliberate and worth preserving rather than flattening: in this specific cosmology the Sirians descend from the Vegan branch, not straight from Lyra. It is a tidy chart, and it is absent from the corpus file, which treats Pleiadians (section 3.3) and Sirians as unlinked catalog entries with no family tree between them.
And then the family goes to war. The source material frames a historical, mythic conflict between the two lineages: Vega is said to have developed a more 'masculine,' domination-oriented character set against Lyra, some feminine-aligned Lyrans are said to have relocated toward Sirius, and the Vegans are said to have developed martial-arts and energy-manipulation traditions defensively in response. It is a compelling piece of storytelling. It is also, start to finish, unrecorded in the corpus file and unsupported by anything outside the channeled tradition itself.
Meier's strand ties into the same root in its own way. His contact material, separate from Royal's, specifically pins Pleiadian and human common ancestry to 'a star group near' the Ring Nebula (Messier 57) in Lyra, and describes the early Lyrans undertaking migrations by 'Space Arks' that founded colonies including the Pleiades. That is the detail that connects the file's Meier citation to the root-race idea. It is also the same Meier whose supporting photographs the corpus doc itself flags as 'widely considered hoaxed.'
05The company it keeps
| Reported type | Its source |
|---|---|
| Vegans (Lyra) | 'Channeled sources' |
| Blue Avians | Corey Goode (2015+) |
| Ebens | 'Project Serpo' document (2005) |
| Andromedans | Alex Collier (1990s) |
Step back and the file itself tells you how to weigh all of this. The corpus document files 'Vegans (Lyra)' inside a single table (section 3.9) of comparably speculative, late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century channeled and contactee taxonomies: the Blue Avians (Corey Goode, 2015 onward), the Ebens (the anonymous 'Project Serpo' document, 2005), the Andromedans (Alex Collier's 1990s contactee claims), and more, every one of them rated Tier 4. That placement is the quiet verdict: the Lyran and Vegan mythos is not a special case, it is one of several evidentially equivalent, unconnected star-nation stories sitting side by side.
And below even that, the story keeps generating detail with no one's name on it. Later, unsigned 'starseed' blog material, a further step removed from Royal's original text, describes a 'standard Vegan' genetic subtype averaging roughly six to seven feet tall, non-Caucasian, and darker-skinned. It reads with the confidence of a field measurement, but it has no traceable author and no date. This is the floor of the whole subject: elaboration piled on channeling piled on a contactee, each layer more specific and less accountable than the one beneath it.
Fast Facts
- The two strains
- Lyrans (light-skinned) and Vegans (darker-skinned), split from a Lyra root race
- Named sources
- Billy Meier's contactee claims (1975) and Lyssa Royal's channeling
- The book
- The Prism of Lyra (Royal and Priest, December 1989)
- Channeled entity
- 'Germane,' per Lyssa Royal
- The family tree
- Lyra begat Terra and the Pleiades; Vega begat Orion and Sirius
- In the corpus file
- One catalog entry on Lyrans, one row on Vegans, both rated Tier 4
- Confirmed
- None; the whole cosmology is channeled, no origin verified
What we can actually stand behind
The book behind the myth is real and datable. The Prism of Lyra (Royal and Priest, December 1989), its two-part channeled structure, and Keith Priest's biography as a complementary-medicine practitioner rather than a scientist are all verifiable facts. What is solid here is the paper trail of the claim, not the claim.
The one strand with any independent footing is thin. The corpus file's own Nordic / Pleiadian entry separately traces a Pleiadian origin to the 'Lyra constellation,' a second mention that does not cite Royal and appears to predate her. It shows the Lyra-origin idea circulates. It says nothing about whether it is true.
Everything load-bearing rests entirely on channeled testimony, and the file's own rating agrees: Tier 4. The root race in Lyra, the Lyran and Vegan split, the Lyra-to-Terra-and-Pleiades and Vega-to-Orion-and-Sirius family tree, the Lyran-Vegan war, all of it. The least-supported claim of all is the anonymous, undated 'starseed' elaboration that a 'standard Vegan' runs six to seven feet tall and darker-skinned, a detail with no traceable author and nothing beneath it but repetition. We record the mythos and refuse to dress it as evidence.
So the Lyrans and Vegans end as a family portrait with no family: a genealogy of the whole galaxy sketched by one contactee and one channeler, elaborated by anonymous blogs, and barely acknowledged by the very research file that is meant to catalog them. And yet the story keeps its grip, because it answers a question science leaves open: where did we come from, and are we alone in it? Strip the channeling away and the honest version of that question still stands. If humanity ever does find its relatives among the stars, will the map look anything like the one drawn in a 1989 workshop, or nothing like it at all?
Sources & further reading
Everything above is drawn from our research library on Theories of Anything. Open the full file to check the sourcing and go deeper.
Image credits
- lyrans-hero.jpg photograph by Bautsch, via Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)
- lyrans-star-chart.jpg chart by the International Astronomical Union and Sky & Telescope (Roger Sinnott and Rick Fienberg), via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0 Unported
- lyrans-ring-nebula.jpg photograph by NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University), via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain (NASA/ESA creation)