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Faerie Tales may be 5000 year old cultural memories. As ‘Ring Around the Rosy’ is traced to the Black Death. A remote version of industrial era heroes like Superman may survive to the 40th century. How could they not. Tales of invincible saviors last the ages. We learn about the rise and fall of civilizations. Each separate with little or no connection. There’s a more wholistic view of the human story. From the last Ice Age to this moment there has been one continuous human culture. Varieties within rose evolved faded. Adding their experiences to the ongoing story. Our space faring digital information era is directly connected to folks painting bison on cave walls. One teaching one remembering from the Ice to now. 20,000 years. From painted bison to the stars.
I’ve read that faerie tales contain distinct clues about how to perform magic: the giant’s heart hidden in a tree bole, enchantments expressed as songs or rhymes, and such like; the old woman by the well is actually the goddess Demeter: that sort of thing. Old tales contain the coded and embedded wisdom of centuries of the culture from which they come. The Polynesians teach celestial navigation memorized as song and rhymes.
ReplyDeleteI think the legend of Atlantis is probably a folk memory of an ice age civilization that actually existed. Standard archaeology and anthropology deny the existence of anything outside their orthodoxy. For instance, archaeologists for decades insisted that human habitation in North America goes back no more than 13,000 years. Yet some years ago human remains were found in a tar pit near San Diego that proved to be on the order of 80,000 years old. Egyptian mummies have been found with tobacco, a product of the Americas. Lots of things have happened that aren’t supposed to have done.
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After the coming age of darkness which has already begun. Future renaissance scholars will debate the myths of travel to the planets. Till eventually their decedents find the remains of our outposts on the Moon Mars and in the belt. They will find that "...things have happened that aren’t supposed to have."
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