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MineralMan

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7. Oh, yes, in one form or another.

Reply to cachukis (Reply #6)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 10:24 AM

Jan 2019

Pretty much every religion and culture has a creation myth. That's a response to the natural human curiosity about where all this stuff originated. The old storytellers came up with stories about that, right out of the box. Those myths go in all sorts of directions, but they answer the question satisfactorily for their audience.

Tribal chieftains and their storytellers had strong relationships with each other. The chieftain was in charge of what to do, and the storyteller was in charge of explaining why.

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The Origins of "Genesis," or "Bereshit" in Ancient Hebrew [View all] MineralMan Jan 2019 OP

By contrast, the Hindu Vedas were complete before 800 BC. MineralMan Jan 2019 #1

Enuma Elish cachukis Jan 2019 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author MineralMan Jan 2019 #5

I believe the Babylonian captivity (around 530 B.C.) was the ground packman Jan 2019 #3

Very likely. MineralMan Jan 2019 #4

Methinks the stories had been around for a while. cachukis Jan 2019 #6

Oh, yes, in one form or another. MineralMan Jan 2019 #7

Could this be a point of control of "the sons of god," cachukis Jan 2019 #8

Syncretism Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #9

Nothing new under the Sun, I guess. MineralMan Feb 2019 #10