@ Rhythm, IATIA
For me it will suffice if you accept as correct my theory based on only these four traditions.
They are the basic ones because they are the ones with the earliest recorded oral traditions.
The Bible says that the sons of the God married the daughters of men and according to Japanese tradition the male heavenly Kami made love with the female earthly Kami. What is the difference?
Since the time of the Australopithecines there were always more than three types (or races) of the hominid or the human of the given time.
When Homo sapiens sapiens emerged, living were still the Neanderthals, the Early Modern Homo sapiens, the lately recognized Denisovans and most probably some other races in the Far East.
You can dispense with the “possibility,” there is ample evidence for “certainty.”
And, of course, any other kind of intelligence –not in human form- would have been easier to exterminate.
(November 14, 2011 at 3:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yes, but herein you're assuming that all mytholgies have some "original idea" that connects them, with very little evidence that this is the case.It is either the “original idea” or God having planted into our brains the god-detecting-spot, which is a very theistic approach to the problem of the origin of religion.
(November 14, 2011 at 3:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: These are not "all" of the worlds mythologies, they are not representative of the rest of the worlds mythologies, and they cannot speak authoritatively for the entirety of the worlds mythologies as presented.
For me it will suffice if you accept as correct my theory based on only these four traditions.
They are the basic ones because they are the ones with the earliest recorded oral traditions.
The Bible says that the sons of the God married the daughters of men and according to Japanese tradition the male heavenly Kami made love with the female earthly Kami. What is the difference?
(November 15, 2011 at 2:05 am)IATIA Wrote: And there is no possibility that the dominant intelligence killed off any potential competition?
Since the time of the Australopithecines there were always more than three types (or races) of the hominid or the human of the given time.
When Homo sapiens sapiens emerged, living were still the Neanderthals, the Early Modern Homo sapiens, the lately recognized Denisovans and most probably some other races in the Far East.
You can dispense with the “possibility,” there is ample evidence for “certainty.”
And, of course, any other kind of intelligence –not in human form- would have been easier to exterminate.
