Cosmic Image

Pétur Halldórsson extends the research of the Icelandic scholar Einar Pálsson, who had discovered the landscape features in Icelandic myths. This book reveals that all civilised setters used landmarks linked to the seasonal positions of the sun, and multi-ples of cosmic numbers in the diameter of their cosmos and the borders of their central sacred and administrative areas. Despite wide separation in place and time, all the major civilisations used the same pattern to anchor their first formal settlements to the sky. This cosmic image remains readable in the names and legends attached to landmarks in the core areas at Memphis, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Venice, Paris, Jelling, London, Somerset, Ireland, Hebrides, Iceland, and Washington D.C.