> oral traditions aren't durable they aren't really durable as they are heavily distorted as they are passed down (thus "legends"); whereas with writing you co

> oral traditions aren't durable they aren't really durable as they are heavily distorted as they are passed down (thus "legends"); whereas with writing you could, for the first time, read the events as they were originally described at the time (whether the description was truthful in another matter, but there is no distortion in the transmission, though there is the question of translation of course)