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May 6, 2024, 4:22 am UTC    
October 15, 2007 09:31PM
Ecclesiastes says there is nothing new under the sun and this was
penned for the bible around 2500 years ago. Ecclesiastes was prob-
ably an oral tradition long before the advent of writing which puts
it many more centuries before this.

There are lots of types of myths and some are probably literally
true and a fair representation of actual events and other types can
be more in the realm of epic poetry or songs which are hugely em-
bellished and only loosely based on any sort of thing which actually
occurred.

In modern times we are very quick to discount all of these myths and
accept a whole new sort. Most myths survive because they illuminate
moral imperatives or paint the true nature of life and Gods. We re-
tell them endlessly often reset in a modern context. But the fact is
that some of these are probably literally true. We don't understand
them but this is partly because we can't see through the eyes of the
ancients and partly because we don't have the imagination to see.

There is nothing new under the sun. Everything was done and said long
before the first known individual trod the Earth. Some of the myths
may even be about people who lived far in the misty past.

One imagines Isis was such an individual.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
Subject Author Posted

Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Rick Baudé October 14, 2007 10:18PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Anthony October 15, 2007 11:38AM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Rick Baudé October 15, 2007 08:20PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg October 16, 2007 02:29PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Rick Baudé October 16, 2007 08:39PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

rich October 16, 2007 10:53PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Rick Baudé October 16, 2007 11:21PM

Is there a myth of Atlantis?

Doug Weller October 17, 2007 04:03AM

Re: Is there a myth of Atlantis?

Hermione October 17, 2007 04:20AM

Re: Is there a myth of Atlantis?

Doug Weller October 17, 2007 05:05AM

Re: Is there a myth of Atlantis?

Hermione October 17, 2007 06:21AM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

rich October 16, 2007 11:55PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg October 17, 2007 03:58AM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

rich October 17, 2007 12:17PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Pete Clarke October 16, 2007 02:44PM

Excellent point

Anthony October 16, 2007 04:22PM

Re: Excellent point

Warwick L Nixon October 16, 2007 05:53PM

Re: Excellent point

Jammer October 17, 2007 12:40PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

cladking October 15, 2007 09:31PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

rich October 15, 2007 10:01PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

rich October 17, 2007 08:30AM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

rich October 17, 2007 09:33AM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

Byrd October 17, 2007 05:27PM

Re: Are myths based on reality? I'd say yes....

rich October 25, 2007 01:54PM



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