Giorgio De Santillana, Hertha Von Dechend - Ham... -

: 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

: The "Mill" refers to the rotation of the heavens. The authors trace the recurring motif of a "broken mill" (like the Icelandic Amlóði’s kvern) through Norse, Babylonian, and Indian traditions as a metaphor for the shifting of the Earth's axis. Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechend - Ham...

The book has a polarized legacy, often described as more of a "monumental art of the fugue" than a standard textbook. : They suggest all great world myths share