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: How ancient cultures used the "fixed" stars to create a stable reference for tracking the slow "wobble" of the Earth (precession).

: They suggest all great world myths share a common origin in this celestial cosmology, which was later suppressed or forgotten by Greco-Roman worldviews. Academic Reception Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechend - Ham...

: The tension between the authors' view of myth as "exacting science" and the modern view of myth as "superstition". : How ancient cultures used the "fixed" stars

: Exploring how the figure of Hamlet—before Shakespeare—represented the "owner" of the cosmic mill that "grinds out" the ages of the world. Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechend - Ham...