(April 21, 2012 at 1:21 pm)average Wrote: Because it all stems from Greek mythology and spread.
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Zeus had sons with earthling virgins.
According to American Indians’ myths the heavenly beings were marrying Indian girls.
Did the Greek mythology cross the Atlantic?
We know where the American Indians were, say 12,000 years ago, but we have no idea if the Greeks even existed as a separate population by that time.
Mythology is not Greek; it is international, but the events to which the myths refer took place in the Near East.
"Culture is memory"
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman
