Petur Halldorsson extends the research of the Icelandic scholar Einar Palsson, who had discovered the landscape features in Icelandic myths. This book reveals that all civilised settersusedlandmarks linked to the seasonalpositions of the sun, and multiplesof cosmic numbersin the diameter of their cosmosand the borders of their central sacredand administrative areas.Despitewide separation in placeand time, all the major civilisations usedthe samepattern to anchor their first formal settlementsto the sky.This cosmic image remains readable in the namesand legendsattached to landmarks in the core areasat Memphis, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Venice, Paris, Jelling, London, Somerset, Ireland, Hebrides, Iceland, and Washington D.C.