In 1969, a book was published which put forth a long overdue reinterpretation of ancient mythology. The authors argued the myth was the technical language of a lost science, a science that mainly encoded a profound grasp of astronomy. That book was Hamlet’s Mill, and the authors were well respected historians of science, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend. Much of the pioneering new insights came from earlier work by von Dechend, published in German, but Santillana eagerly joined the... Continuar leyendo