Precession Myths: Hamlet's Mill and The Lost Star of Myth and Time

Prepare yourself to enter a bewildering labyrinth, wherein lies an unexplored and uncharted realm. This is what Hertha von Dechend and Giorgio de Santillana did when they wrote Hamlet's Mill, where they argue that the tormented, self-questioning Prince of Denmark comes down to us from a long tradition of astronomical myths and that he is himself the Lord of the Golden Age, the Once and Future King. According to these scholars, the story of Hamlet, the melancholic, withdrawn, brooding intellec...