Giorgio de Santillana’s Hamlet’s Mill is an exercise in un-forgetting.  Ancients believed the world moved through various ages: “Each age brings a World Era, a Twilight of the Gods. Great structures collapse; pillars topple which supported the great fabric; floods and cataclysms herald the shaping of a new world.” And each at was marked by an astronomical shift, as “the secular shifting of the sun through the signs of the zodiac which determines world-ages” (2). Each new world was organized by... Read more

In his Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks, Jean Richer writes, “during more than two thousand years, the Phoenicians, the Hittites, the ancient Greeks, and then the Etruscans, the Carthaginians, and the R?mans, had patiently woven a fabric of correspondences between the sky, especIally the apparent course of the sun through the zodiac, the inhabited earth, and the cities built by humanity” (xxv). He began his investigation with a theory about the alignments of ancient Greek temples: “The origin of this... Read more