Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology & science have developed separately. This one took me about two years to read. Santillana and Dechend write tortuous sentences that are difficult to follow; the material, which is often complex and detailed, is often poorly presented and their points are not always obvious. and 100 A.D. a single archaic system prevailed throughout most of the civilized and proto-civilized world is pure fantasy. It is an anthropological detective story that traces the origins of myths throughout the world and finds common elements in their origins. This is a book that reminds me of the mythological discourses by Joseph Campbell.
by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend. Saxo tries to explain: "This was a gentle but witty fashion of invoking a curse upon his uncle's riches."
H. R. Ellis Davidson referred to Hamlet’s Mill as: [...] amateurish in the worst sense, jumping to wild conclusions without any knowledge of the historical value of the sources or of previous work done. It isn't written for the average reader and really makes you think to understand it, but if you dig into it (and skim the blah blah blah parts) you'll end up with a mind-blowing view of earth and life that school didn't teach you. An intense overview of the common origins of science and myth.
One finding is that the geography of myth is not that of the earth but rather is celestial.
(Leach 1970) "De Santillana has served us well once more by underscoring a pioneering idea, but von Dechend's implementation of that idea will prevent many scholars from recognizing its validity."
Myth continues to open its vastness to me, yet withholds its secrets. This is a dense analysis of ancient mythology in which the authors explain that most myth is not about the adventures of historical human characters but of astronomical bodies.
It was meant to allow those who knew (a) to determine unequivocally the position of given planets in respect to the earth, to the firmament, and to one another; (b) to present what knowledge there was of the fabric of the world in the form of tales about 'how the world began'.
This is along the notions of Joseph Campbell's works.
Contains English translations of sixteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century French author Emile Zola. [...] The Mill is thus not only very great and ancient, but it must also be central to the original Hamlet story. In the years surrounding the Civil War, European immigrants and textile workers came to Rhode Island to work in the stateas mills.
A page turner it is not. The mere 450 pages are so densely packed that it took me almost three stinkin' weeks to read, but it was worth every frustrating minute.
Brilliant! Considers geographic, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the American past from both larger (the "Anglo World," the West) and smaller (regional and local) perspectives to reduce American "exceptionalism" to proper proportions.
Since the whole universe was thought to be ruled by the same living, volitional forces, it was by no means a simple “primitive” or childlike fantasy that what happened in the sky was related to what happened on earth in describable ways. If this theory is correct, both the history of science and the reinterpretation of myths have been enriched immensely.". 381)."
The second time I read it I started to understand the thesis and the mode of argument. Hertha von Dechend (who is generally held to have written more of the book)[17] prepared an expanded second edition several years later.
Why are all myths all over the world so similar? "The cowed reviewer is soon reduced to wondering whether mere critical prose should even be expended on something that obviously solicits the suspension of disbelief."
At most, it has been given a grudging sort of praise. Drawing on scientific data, historical & literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power & accuracy were suppressed & then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view.
Consequently, Santillana and Dechend prefer to rely on the work of "meticulous scholars such as Ideler, Lepsius, Chwolson, Boll and, to go farther back, of Athanasius Kircher and Petavius...", They give reasons throughout the book for preferring the work of older scholars (and the early mythologists themselves) as the proper way to interpret myth; but this viewpoint did not sit well with their modern critics schooled in the "current anthropology, which has built up its own idea of the primitive and what came after". bibliography and indices), This page was last edited on 12 August 2020, at 23:12. Grist Mill and adjoining house. If so, then civilization goes back much further than we have been taught to believe. I read this book long ago, and just as with Calazzo's "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony", it made a lot more sense when I read it the second time.
The German translation, which appeared in 1993, is slightly longer than the original. Santillana and Dechend write tortuous sentences that are difficult to follow; the material, which is often complex and detailed, is often poorly presented and their points are not always obvious. A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. Early Israel was not "one man's family", however dysfunctional. It's all well and good to notice Mars takes roughly two years to complete an orbit, and to write stories about a character with warlike attributes who returns after a two year journey, as von Dechend notes in the preface to the book. We’d love your help.
Like all religions, Israel's was shaped by the language, in this case Hebrew, in which it is expressed.
Escape the Present with These 24 Historical Romances. It was, however, a major influence on Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, where he devotes a whole chapter to this book.
Because they contain astronomical and mathematical knowledge and are the vehicles used to transmit this knowledge to the future. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. White (1970:541). In more ways than one. The foundation and endowment of the Premonstratensian priory at Postel (Bijsterveld).
Giorgio de Santillana a Professor at MIT looks at mythology, astronomy, precession of the axis and of the Zodiacal stages of precession. Circa 1850.
This text is extremely dense and was definitely not read in one sitting. The "Mill" of the title represents the earth's wobble, which takes nearly 26,000 years to complete, and the ancients knew this. regional, local, district and council authorities, local authority associations, public services, training and professional bodies, universities and ecclesiastical buildings and staff architects to commerce and industry. "Why," he remarks, "in Fengo's stud there are too few of that kind fighting."
Such knowledge tells us civilizations were devoting a minimum of several centuries to careful astronomical observation, because it would take generations to notice a one degree change. Their attempt to delineate the details of this system by a worldwide scatter of random oddments of mythology is no more than an intellectual game. Refresh and try again. (In fact, anyone who finds Hamlet's Mill baffling can turn to Hancock, who does a good job of explaining its key message.) Simply boggles the mind that ancient stories could be so similar while so geographically distant from one another. How could they? Strata of earlier religions are still visible beneath the surface of Israelite monotheism. Is a golden calf about the vernal equinox sun in the Age of Taurus? Hamlet's Mill book. Now... take all this and maybe the ancient myths have been misconstrued. Yet many cultures did notice, and when they pass down stories involving zodiac signs we need to decide if they are extremely ancient clues which time the stories to distant epochs. Barber & Barber (2006), itself a study aiming to "uncover seismic, geological, astrological, or other natural events" from mythology, appreciates the book for its pioneer work in mythography, judging that "Although controversial, [Santillana and von Dechend] have usefully flagged and collected Herculean amounts of relevant data.
The knowledge of this civilization about precession, and the associated astrological ages, The recent discovery of the remains of ancient villages buried beneath the Black Sea is the latest instance of mounting evidence that many of the "mythic" catastrophes of history--the fall of Atlantis, the Biblical Flood--were actual events. The sun always appears to make the same annual journey through the background stars, and ancient cultures were also very much aware of precession.
What if the gods, the places they lived & what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetu. However, their thesis is so radical and their scholarship so thorough, that it has undeniable claims to be one of the Great Books of History.
It's much more impressive to see that many cultures understood the almost 26,000 year cycle of the precession of the earth's axis. A wolf crosses Hamlet's path, and he is told it is a horse. Th. A great book interested in deep patterns of myth and archetypes.
Their thesis is that myths are a form of astronomy in code. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
It's all connected! The essay was reissued by David R. Godine, Publisher in 1992. would have been encoded in mythology, typically in the form of a story relating to a millstone and a young protagonist—the "Hamlet's Mill" of the book's title, a reference to the kenning Amlóða kvern recorded in the Old Icelandic Skáldskaparmál. "Her only proofs are analogy, often strained.
• Explains why, contrary to many prophets of doom, we are actually on the cusp of an era of incredible creative growth. What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? To see what your friends thought of this book, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth.
Rhode Islandas Mill Villages is a fascinating visual history of the development and evolution of over 150 years of life in Simmonsville, Pocasset, Olneyville, and Thornton. An academic perspective on myths and legends and their sources.
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One might quote such passages indefinitely." "[15] Nevertheless, the conclusions the authors draw from their data have been "virtually ignored by the scientific and scholarly establishment.”[16], The full hardcover title is Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth & the Frame of Time. On page 320 we read "here ancient Greek myth suddenly emerges in full light among Indian tribes in America, miraculously preserved." Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität) is a nonfiction work of history and comparative mythology, particularly the subfield of archaeoastronomy. Packed with diagrams, maps, and astronomical charts, this useful guidebook decodes the ancient mysteries of the Pueblo Indian world. White (1970:541).
it requires thought and study...really thinking.to understand it we need to look outsude our normal way of understanding earth and how it works.
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