Cosmic Image

Pétur Halldórsson extends the research of the Icelandic scholar Einar Pálsson, whohad discovered the landscape features in Icelandic myths. This book reveals that allcivilised settersusedlandmarks linked to the seasonalpositions of the sun, and multiplesofcosmic numbersin the diameter of their cosmosand the borders of their centralsacredand administrative areas.Despitewide separation in placeand time, all the majorcivilisations usedthe samepattern to anchor their first formal settlementsto the sky.Thiscosmic image remains readable in the namesand legendsattached to landmarks in thecore areasat Memphis, Jerusalem,Athens, Rome,Venice, Paris, Jelling, London, Somerset,Ireland, Hebrides, Iceland, and Washington D.C.