In their famous book, “Hamlet’s Mill,” Giorgio de Santillana - TopicsExpress



          

In their famous book, “Hamlet’s Mill,” Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend explore the folk stories and mythologies of thirty ancient cultures, and what their study reveals is remarkable. It appears that all of these ancient peoples—and who knows how many others?—believed in a very different model of history than that which predominates our modern age of so-called rationality. Essentially, the difference is that in these ancient cosmologies, both human consciousness and the motion of history were viewed as cyclical rather than linear. These ancient cultural beliefs are very tied in with the precession of the equinox. It was widely believed that time moves in a great cycle corresponding to the precession of the equinox, and that within this cycle exists an alternating pattern of Dark Ages and Golden Ages. The philosopher Plato viewed this cycle as what he called the Great Year.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 23:20:12 +0000

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