Some now suspect that certain "Faerie Tales" may be based on stories 5000+ years old. As "Ring Around the Rosy" is traced to near 800 years ago during the Black Death.
Some version of Superman, and the mix of industrial era popular heroes may survive into the 40th century. How could they not. Invincible saviors.
In the West history is generally taught as the rise, and fall of cultures. In school we learned of them as separate civilizations with little or no connections. Some suggest a more wholistic view of the human story.
Starting during the last Ice Age there began one continuous human culture. Different varieties within it the rose evolved faded. Adding their stories to the ongoing enterprise. The current space faring post industrial digital information era is directly connected to the Bronze Age, and back, and back, and back. Perhaps to them folks figuring what flint can do.
One learning one remembering from the Ice to now.
20,000+ years, and still in business.
Fairy tales are the accumulated wisdom of many centuries encoded into stories. I bet you can learn a lot from them.
ReplyDeleteI suspect civilization may be quite a bit older than recorded history. In the book "Hamlet's Mill," a couple of profs develop the thesis that the concept of the Zodiac is at least 22,000 years old; so observational astronomy has been around for that long, or more.
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The Aztecs invented the vacation.
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