(December 15, 2011 at 4:57 pm)dtango Wrote: Campbell’s theory is no better than Daniken’s (if you know his theory about alien gods) because it is not based on what words of the ancients managed to reach us. It is no more than pure speculation.
A lot of that going around.
(December 15, 2011 at 4:57 pm)dtango Wrote: If you really want to know how the idea came to be, you have to start thinking for yourself.
Should have thought of that!
(December 15, 2011 at 4:57 pm)dtango Wrote: Answer the question: Why is it that the Native Americans tell the same story about gods as the Europeans, Asians and Africans tell, while they had lived for 14,000 in isolation?
That is precisely the question Campbell addresses.
