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> Why would every mainstream religion we still have some knowledge of on earth be based on the same basic stories retold. Most of the world was explored by Chr
by Telemakhos 4y ago
> Why would every mainstream religion we still have some knowledge of on earth be based on the same basic stories retold.
Most of the world was explored by Christian missionaries like Jesuits, who also educated the informants who in turn told them about foreign cultures. You'd be surprised how many Noah's-ark-like myths the informants told the Jesuits only after the Jesuits told them about Noah's ark. Or, to use another example, a number of books on Greek myth and tragedy retell an Inca story about the emperor opening a box and unleashing smallpox on the Incas, as an independent parallel to the story of Pandora's jar: but the source of the Inca smallpox story was himself a Jesuit-educated native informant who had learned the story of Pandora from the Jesuits before inventing the story of the Inca emperor. The contact between two cultures is a two-way street: the informants who report stories may contaminate them with the stories learned from those they are informing.
- 9dev 4y agoStill, Noah‘s ark being a collective memory of the journey from another star to earth sounds like a great science fiction story!
- nosianu 4y agoUhm... Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_... That ship carried our real ancestors. And the first thing they did was declare leaves to be money and then burn down forests to make it more valuable. -- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309207-thank-you-since-we-decided-a-few-weeks-ago-to https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309207-thank-you-since-we-d...
- 9dev 4y agoYeah, I love that series. It’s never actually drawing that religious connection to the bible though, as far as I can remember. Also, I’m yearning for some good, more serious, well-written science fiction…