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Ever notice how different cultures separated by thousands of miles if not entire continents have similar stories and Myths?
Dragons for instance. Cultures from South America to Northern Russia. Speak of broadly similar creatures. That shared some physical and character traits. Reptilian, Large, Hoarded various items. Often Wealth though not exclusively. That can’t be a case of saw some Dinosaur Bones and arbitrarily assigned traits. The odds of so many cultures settling on such similar ones is near impossible.
Gnomes. Cultures from Europe to the Pacific Islands speak of races of mischievous and or actively malicious midgets. Why?
Were-creatures are hardly unique to Europe either. Stories from Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. Many predating known European contact at least so it’s unlikely to be a case of cultural diffusion.
Vampires too aren’t a unique phenomenon. Similar stories and phenomenon have been noted elsewhere. Why such broadly similar traits though?
Giants I don’t even need to really elaborate on. Given how often it’s come up.
If I didn’t know any better. I’d say it’s almost like some sort of residual or fading collective memory from a singular source. Hence why some traits are shared between stories. While others have diverged with distance and time from the origin of them.
Definitely food for thought. Vampires could be globalists by another name. Didn't Putin make a reference to vampires?
There have been many varieties of the human genus on the planet in the past. For instance, there were ancient people 3.5 feet tall (https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-floresiensis)
Remember that not all bones become findable fossils. So there could be much more that happened.
Because everything comes from the one true language. A language lost to us but that internally we still "undestand"
Same with the biblical flood. I don’t remember the name of the video, watched long time ago. Every group of people has a version, story of the great flood that flooded the world.
Indeed. Everyone has a Flood Myth. Though how humans survived can differ depending on the culture. The Ark isn’t a universal feature. Some don’t even involve boats at all.