"Hamlet's Mill" − a dearth of scholarly support but here's an unpublished doctoral dissertation
"Hamlet's Mill" − a dearth of scholarly support but
here's an unpublished doctoral dissertation
Source: http://sci.tech−archive.net/Archive/sci.archaeology/2007−09/msg00428.html
• From: David
• Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:05:58 −0700
On Sep 5, 6:53 pm, benlizross wrote:
David wrote:
On Sep 5, 9:18 am, Doug Weller
wrote:
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:04:11 +1000, in sci.archaeology,
Peter Jason wrote:
"David" wrote
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Reviews Written by Jane B.
Sellers
(Portland, Me. USA)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member−reviews/A3DTNEL4VB5MI9?ie=U
I am curious whether Doug
Weller, Tom
McDonald, or Peter Alaca
etc.
consider Jane Sellers
woo−woo.
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"Hamlet's Mill" − a dearth of scholarly support but here's an unpublished doctoral dissertation
Well, I've been mauled & bitten; let us weep
for poor Jane.
Her comments on Hancock and Bauval are here:
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=7
She's good.
Doug
...
Thus, you say Jane Sellers is not and never was woo−woo. I agree.
Well, in the book notes you directed us to, she appeared to be
supporting the "Hamlet's Mill" theory that ancient myths and rituals
encode numerical data relating to the precession of the equinoxes. This
always struck me as pretty woo−woo, though supported by some scholars of
note. Is it taken seriously these days?
Ross Clark−
History of Constellation and Star Names
members.optusnet.com.au/~gtosiris/page7.html
"Hansen, Chad. (2002). The five−fifths of myth. [Note: Unpublished
doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Dallas. Abstract:
The main argument of the dissertation is that mythoi from around the
world, as well as epics and legends that derive from these mythoi,
embody an awareness of astronomical entities and events. In
particular, the five planets visible to the naked eye can be divided
into two groups according to their motion. The three planets Saturn,
Jupiter, and Mars form one group, called here the Big Three, and the
two planets Venus and Mercury form another group, called here the
Divine Twins. These two sets of planets were personified by various
groups of people from around the world, and woven into myth as the
main characters of many stories. From the very outset, these five
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"Hamlet's Mill" − a dearth of scholarly support but here's an unpublished doctoral dissertation
planets were thought to be involved in a celestial scenario of divine
kingship of the sky and the gods, as well as the divine origin of
human beings. The Big Three also contributed to the structure of
society through clan division. The astronomical event known
scientifically as the precession of the equinoxes was interpreted by
the mythopoets as a succession of World Ages, each of which was ruled
by a different king of the gods. This idea of world time led directly
to the advent of the calendar as the expression of this succession.
The grand myth of the World Ages was eventually transformed into epic
and legend, in which traces of the myth can be discovered, using the
techniques of critical hermeneutics in general and comparative
mythology in particular. The dissertation discusses these astronomical
underpinnings as they are expressed, in particular, in Egyptian
mythos, in the Hindu epic The Mahabharata, in the Celtic legends
compiled in the Mabinogi, and in the Mesoamerican mythos of the Mayan
people as this is recorded in the Popol Vuh. Although some argument to
this effect was proposed in the text Hamlet's Mill, no one to date has
proposed the global distribution of this motif, nor offered so
comprehensive an analysis of these archaeoastronomical influences in
world narrative. Hence, this dissertation advances theories and
evidence that are not only original in their orientation, but
groundbreaking in their content.]"
.
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