Hamlet's mill
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2215 - Graham Hancock
Podcast: The Joe Rogan ExperienceAnd there's very solid scholarly backing for this in a book I've mentioned to you before, which is called Hamlet's Mill by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend.
- Episode: Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastThey wrote an immense book in the 1960s called 'Hamlet's Mill'.
- Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble
Podcast: The Joe Rogan ExperienceBut these guys, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in an amazing piece of work called 'Hamlet's Mill' strongly dispute that. And they suggest that we're looking at an extremely ancient knowledge of precession, a worldwide heritage of a lost civilization to which all subsequent civilizations in all parts of the globe, forgetful of the source of the precious legacy they received, are the ungrateful heirs. Giorgio de Santillana was a professor of the history of science at MIT. Hertha von Dechend was a professor of the history of science at Frankfurt University, so they're no lightweights. They refer to the fact that a series of numbers keep cropping up in ancient myths all over the world associated with imagery. And those numbers are all based on the number 72.