The silence of the gods is a thunderous echo that resonates among the naive and noisy hubbub of nonsense of rational and secular modern thought. Disdaining the pejorative visions of myth as a mere fable, of madness as a simple mental illness and of political power as the product of a rational renunciation of the satisfaction of selfish human appetites, Ayala Blanco affirms, instead, the power of myth as a real presence, of madness as a divine possession and of the exercise of power as a display of strength and capacity. With an admirable handling of Hindu and Greek mythologies, of classical thought, of more contemporary authors not infected by modern self-referential pride (Nietzsche, Colli, Calasso) and of the main theorists of quantum physics (Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Bohr), the author convincingly demonstrates that scientific thought led, although by a very different route, to the same conclusion expressed in the Vedas thousands of years ago: the illusory nature of all human knowledge of reality.