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

: Instead of primitive storytelling, myths were a precise technical language used to preserve complex astronomical observations across generations.

: 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 authors propose that preliterate civilizations possessed a sophisticated understanding of , specifically the precession of the equinoxes . : Instead of primitive storytelling, myths were a