RE: Brahma and Abraham
September 19, 2020 at 7:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2020 at 7:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Out group influence in cultural narratives usually isn't "strong" - as we've already discussed. As for the primary sources..if you mean old magic book, old magic book flat out states that abraham and his clan came from the east to the ane, also already discussed. You're still arguing against some thing that no one in comp myth is suggesting.
It's just the one thing - that the people who came up with one set of stories had heard the other, liked bits of the other, and chose to include those bits in their own for effect. Think Angel and Buffy. The former didn't copy the latter, and the similarities between the two aren't "strong" even though we know for a fact that one was literally a spinoff. They have a couple of shared characters, alot of thematic overlap - but - otherwise, it reflects the work of a different group of people in a different narrative universe. As it progressed, it went further and further from the source material.
Myths seem to work alot like our tv shows do, and that might have something to do with their shared purpose and shared point of origin. Let wonder lead you to knowledge, or...not..I guess? I'd suggest The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong. It sets the broad stage that our ideologies took shape in and gives the context for syncretism in the ane (and further afield). The question isn't whether these narratives were informed by each other, but how and why. What value did people see, and how were the myths physically transported. In some cases we have answers for that, others, not so much.
It's just the one thing - that the people who came up with one set of stories had heard the other, liked bits of the other, and chose to include those bits in their own for effect. Think Angel and Buffy. The former didn't copy the latter, and the similarities between the two aren't "strong" even though we know for a fact that one was literally a spinoff. They have a couple of shared characters, alot of thematic overlap - but - otherwise, it reflects the work of a different group of people in a different narrative universe. As it progressed, it went further and further from the source material.
Myths seem to work alot like our tv shows do, and that might have something to do with their shared purpose and shared point of origin. Let wonder lead you to knowledge, or...not..I guess? I'd suggest The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong. It sets the broad stage that our ideologies took shape in and gives the context for syncretism in the ane (and further afield). The question isn't whether these narratives were informed by each other, but how and why. What value did people see, and how were the myths physically transported. In some cases we have answers for that, others, not so much.
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