Hamlet's Mill reading (1 of 2)

Reading by myself (D.T. Smith), of Hamlet's Mill (1969) by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, minus the appendices. This book is a must for lovers of comparative mythology and history. The authors have pinned the central and most common theme since pre-deluge storytelling of equinoctial precession and the axis mundi. It SHOWS the roots of all major religions in archaeoastronomy and astrotheology. My Latin and Italian are good, but there are some sporadic terms of uncertain pronunciation, so please forgive these, as well as some long pauses due to this edition's horrible editing and frequent punctuation errors.