: Many academic historians and philologists dismissed it for its "chaotic" organization, "pure fantasy" regarding historical timelines, and reliance on tenuous etymological associations.
The authors propose that preliterate civilizations possessed a sophisticated understanding of , specifically the precession of the equinoxes . Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechend - Ham...
: They suggest all great world myths share a common origin in this celestial cosmology, which was later suppressed or forgotten by Greco-Roman worldviews. Academic Reception : Many academic historians and philologists dismissed it
: Instead of primitive storytelling, myths were a precise technical language used to preserve complex astronomical observations across generations. "pure fantasy" regarding historical timelines