Tag: Hamlet

The โ€œHamlet's Millโ€: the archaic language of myth and the structure of time

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On May 30, 1902 Giorgio De Santillana was born in Rome, author together with the German scholar Hertha von Dechend of the basic work of modern astrotheology: "Hamlet's mill: an essay on the myth and structure of time", published at the end of the years Sixty. For the occasion, we report the introduction in its entirety.

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Hamlet, or of infinity and action

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Mythical-anthropological portrait of the protagonist of one of the most paradigmatic Shakespearean plays: reflections on the Dionysian Man in front of Mรฆlstrรถm and non-sense, on the "border" where Hamlet reigns as "Fool", on the existing dichotomy between visible-tangible and invisible -intangible.

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Stellar symbolism and solar symbolism

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di Andrew Casella
cover: "The zodiac and the planets"ย by Bartholomeus Anglicus, taken from De proprietatibus rerum, Ahun 1480

[follows from Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorphย eย A Science in Tatters: Survival of the Doctrines of Cyclic Time from the Timaeus to the Apocalypse]

To resume the common thread of the images that we introduced in the first two appointments of this cycle, in the light of the previous considerations, it might be useful to quote a passage from Norse mythology.

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