(June 30, 2014 at 1:03 am)ignoramus Wrote: Guys, a quick naive question.
What do the Chinese have for a bible?
Is that as full of bs as well?
Other cultures certainly have their divinely inspired texts, produced by the various priest-types of their respective tribal gods. Such tales and scriptures, at least the ones I'm familiar with, have a variety of "just so" tales, creation myths and divine factional struggles mixed in with some history of the respective culture.
One example that leaps to mind is the Iliad. Archaeology has confirmed there was a real City of Troy and it was destroyed in some great war of some kind. However, I wouldn't use the Iliad as a sourcebook to reliably understand what happened during this war, even if we stripped out all the supernatural elements (like the recent movie did).
I would venture a wild guess that the war was really over the Helespont, a waterway on the edges of the city of Troy that connected the Balkans with Asia Minor and the Aegean with the Black Sea. It would be a good bet that such a strategic position would grant the city state a lot of control over trade in the region.
Was "Helen" a metaphor for "Helespont"? This is how myths are made.
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