THE SECRET OF THE INCAS: Myth, Astronomy and the War Against Time [View all]
...is an incredible collection of research by Dr. William Sullivan
on ancient myths and their relationship to animals,
ancient cultures and astronomical bodies
aligned with world events.
This book is delightful in knowledge and consistently intense.
In 1969 a book was published which figured to revolutionize the study of human history. This was Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, written by two historians of science, Giorgio de Santillana of MIT and Hertha von Dechend of Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. The startling hypothesis of this book was that myth, on one level, constitutes nothing less than a technical language created to encrypt and pass on very sophisticated astronomical observations related to the precession of the equinoxes. Dr Sulivan follows up after a twenty year study in Peru on Hamlet's Mill applied to the Incans.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Sullivan is a native New Englander. Educated at Harvard College, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rajasthan India, and later studied the History of Religion under J.G Bennett at Sherborne House in Gloucestershire, England. In 1988, after several years of fieldwork in Peru and Bolivia, he received a doctorate in American Indian Studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He lives in central Massachusetts
The Book: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Incas-Myth-Astronomy-Against/dp/0517888513
There is now a video about his work and is filmed in one of the most important Incan spiritual valleys in all of South America.
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