RE: why are we "The Story telling apes?"
December 28, 2011 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 1:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Some of them seem to be just that. It's stories you know, there's a story for everybody, every day, and every purpose.
The Hopi had a myth about the ridges of a cliff face opposite one of their settlements that allowed them (standing from a specified point and with their fist extended) to predict lunar eclipses by the verses of the story and the ridges of their knuckles lined up against the cliff face from their perspective. Knowledge of this story doesn't seem to have been limited to any priestly class btw (though who knows, the application of the story may have been) which seemingly diminishes the case for a con or manipulation.
The Hopi had a myth about the ridges of a cliff face opposite one of their settlements that allowed them (standing from a specified point and with their fist extended) to predict lunar eclipses by the verses of the story and the ridges of their knuckles lined up against the cliff face from their perspective. Knowledge of this story doesn't seem to have been limited to any priestly class btw (though who knows, the application of the story may have been) which seemingly diminishes the case for a con or manipulation.
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