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 According to these scholars, the story of Hamlet, the melancholic, withdrawn, brooding intellectual, is found all across the world in the Icelandic Edda, the Finish Kalevala, the Iranian Shanama, and the Indian Mahabarata. Further, they say that these epics encode advanced astronomical knowledge of a process called precession of the equinoxes, wherein the constellations gradually shift position in a 26,000 year cycle called the Great or Platonic Year. In these myths, the shifting of ages come to be associated with ages of higher and lower civilizations, in what the Hindus call the Yuga cycle. In Lost Star of Myth and Time, Walter Cruttenden follows in the footsteps of Hamlet's Mill, in search of answers for what causes these ages, in hopes we may return to the Golden Age of the Satya Yuga.