Why do you think so many of these ancient stories (Gilgamesh, Noah, etc.) have the same themes and ideas? What does this say about the state of the world thousands of years ago? What can we learn from these similarities?
These ancient stories get better and better over time as they are told or written. There is always something that changes or adds in the stories. A lot of these stories relate to each other in a way. I think that is why they always seem to come back to each other. This says that we can't really say that the ancient stories were real. Nobody knows, it's a mystery. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn't. But we all get an idea of what might happened in the stories. We can learn that even today when we tell stories verbally or write them down some where, they will be told or written down differently in the future. Just like the Gilgamesh and Noah stories. Things will get passed on from generation to generation differently later on.
That's a good point and it make sense
ReplyDeleteThat is so true because it really doesn't matter how long the stories were told or how they were told because we know that some part of it is going to change.
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