RE: Atheists being asked about the existence of Jesus
January 21, 2019 at 10:02 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2019 at 10:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That would be a legendary jesus and arthur, not historical. There's an easy way to remember the three tiers of characters in these stories, lol.
Mythical Arthur had a magic sword and fought dragons.
Legendary Arthur was a (or a combination of) successful warlord(s).
Historical Arthur was Some Guy™.
The reason that we can't exchange any of them for each other is that there's simply no way of determining whether they're even the same character (or were ever intended to be). Some Guy telling the story of Mythical Arthur may have based the character off of himself, despite not being a legendary warlord of any kind - for example. There's alot of similarity, just for amusement, between arthur and magic book. Both are establishment myths/legends derived from folklore - which is a highly suspect genre if what we're looking for are historical facts.
They're not really intended to record history, but to justify some (then) present reality. Generally speaking, a movement, a people, or the authorities thereof.
*all of this above refers to arthurian lit before mallory gave it a facelift.
Mythical Arthur had a magic sword and fought dragons.
Legendary Arthur was a (or a combination of) successful warlord(s).
Historical Arthur was Some Guy™.
The reason that we can't exchange any of them for each other is that there's simply no way of determining whether they're even the same character (or were ever intended to be). Some Guy telling the story of Mythical Arthur may have based the character off of himself, despite not being a legendary warlord of any kind - for example. There's alot of similarity, just for amusement, between arthur and magic book. Both are establishment myths/legends derived from folklore - which is a highly suspect genre if what we're looking for are historical facts.
They're not really intended to record history, but to justify some (then) present reality. Generally speaking, a movement, a people, or the authorities thereof.
*all of this above refers to arthurian lit before mallory gave it a facelift.
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