Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years

Re:Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More ... by meric on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:45AM (#16947864)

In every civilisation there’s founding myths, Romulus and Remus from Rome, Yellow Emperor from China, Abraham from Israel, the Dreaming for indigenous Australians. I wonder how much those myths might actually be telling us about those otherwise undocumented times.

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Re:Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More ... by verylittlemeat on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:48AM (#16948176)

It makes me wonder what founding myths we live with today. I wont even bother to speculate at the risk of promoting flamebait but I imagine our myths are some of our most scared truths. Of course that's not to say they're conspiracies but just very convenient lies.

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Re:Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More ... by erikpukinskis on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:02PM (#16948535)

They’re not necessarily lies. I usually assume myths are faithful transcriptions of actual historical events, just stylized in order to aid in their retelling.

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Re:Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More ... by DougN7 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @03:17PM (#16949044)

I think the Big Bang “theory” is one. It might be accurate, or maybe our universe is squirting out of a worm hole. Either way we believe our stories of the beginning to be true just as vigorously and reason about them just as much as the ancients did.

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Re:Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More ... by badosu on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:29PM (#16948354)

Lies, or corruption due to verbal communication inter generations.

There are mythical accounts verbally communicated for geological events like mega eruptiona spanning tens of thousand years.

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