History That Never Was?
Cycles of Civilization: From Myths to Models
What if myths are not allegories but encrypted memories of real catastrophes? History That Never Was? Cycles of Civilization traces echoes across continents: India’s “second sun,” the fire of Sodom, Atlantis and Santorini, vitrified forts in Scotland, and Navajo tales of “heavenly arrows.”
Drawing from epics, archaeology, and models of collapse (Kondratiev, Toynbee, Tainter, Turchin), this book argues that myths may be cultural palimpsests — oral “incident reports” of vanished civilizations, encoded in allegory yet rooted in reality.
You’ll find competing interpretations tested against evidence: • Archetypes of Jung vs. geological catastrophes vs. memory of lost technologies, • Why “melting stone” and “second suns” recur in distant cultures, • How cycles of complexity make civilizations fragile — including our own XXI century.
Available now in Kindle (print paperback to follow). A provocative, research-driven read for anyone curious about archaeology, mythology, and the future of civilization.
Civilizations rise and fall. Myths are not fantasies, but shadows of memory. The question is not whether it happened — but what we choose to remember.