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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time

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An MIT historian of science and a Frankfurt scholar's argument that world mythology encodes astronomical knowledge, especially the precession of the equinoxes. Academic reception was cold. Speakers cite it for the idea that ancient texts carry lost technical knowledge.

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Issuing bodyGiorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend; Gambit
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Wherehttps://archive.org/details/hamletsmill
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  • 0:42:39 Graham Hancock: The Great Pyramid Is a “Stargate” for Consciousness!
  • 2:59:59 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson)
  • 0:15:32 Something Big Happened In 12,000 BC...

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  • Graham Hancock: The Great Pyramid Is a “Stargate” for Consciousness! 26 October 2024

    • 0:42:39
      way back in the late 1980s. Um and and again pay tribute to the work of others. Probably mentioned it to you before, Hamlet's Mill, Giorgio de Santillana MIT not to be confused with the the guy who presents Ancient Aliens. Giorgio de Santillana was a professor of history of science at at MIT uh back in the 1960s.
    • 0:42:39 cited on the show
  • The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) 16 May 2025

    • 2:59:59
      Yes. And it seems like it was sort of retrofitted with this feronic headdress. Yes. And you have the book [snorts] Hamlet's Mill which talk about a lot of kind of ancient architecture aligning up kind of astronomically in these really amazing ways. And uh this is just probably another example, right? Yeah.
    • 2:59:59 cited on the show
  • Something Big Happened In 12,000 BC... 9 November 2024

    • 0:15:32
      and I do as well well the thing that never made sense to me about you know some of the extrapolations of the kind of Hamlet's Mill thesis this idea that we would build you know architecture specifically around the great procession you know the the the the vernal equinoxes you know that it's 26,000 years CES yeah
    • 0:15:32 cited on the show

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  • 0:42:39 Graham Hancock: The Great Pyramid Is a “Stargate” for Consciousness!
    way back in the late 1980s. Um and and again pay tribute to the work of others. Probably mentioned it to you before, Hamlet's Mill, Giorgio de Santillana MIT not to be confused with the the guy who presents Ancient Aliens. Giorgio de Santillana was a professor of history of science at at MIT uh back in the 1960s.
  • 2:59:59 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson)
    Yes. And it seems like it was sort of retrofitted with this feronic headdress. Yes. And you have the book [snorts] Hamlet's Mill which talk about a lot of kind of ancient architecture aligning up kind of astronomically in these really amazing ways. And uh this is just probably another example, right? Yeah.
  • 0:15:32 Something Big Happened In 12,000 BC...
    and I do as well well the thing that never made sense to me about you know some of the extrapolations of the kind of Hamlet's Mill thesis this idea that we would build you know architecture specifically around the great procession you know the the the the vernal equinoxes you know that it's 26,000 years CES yeah
  • Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend; Gambit · 1969

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