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What if ancient myths and legends were actually fanfics
| I mean... Dante basically fanboyed over Virgil, and self inserted himself into a piece of fiction with his homeboy Virgil. That was in his poem The Divine Comedy.
| This is very probably true. And I'm pretty sure a lot of myths is just one guy telling the story, forgetting the details, and then making things up to fill it.
Heck I know *I* made up details when I forget the story I'm telling out loud.
More religious people will probably protect their canon more fiercely, but the self-inserts are probably there.
| Most of them are. Like a bible.
| >>641693
Haha look guys I put bible in the fiction section of my local bookshop haha because it obviously belongs there haha as it is not real haha
| I could see it, and then over time people forgot that it was fanfiction and the fanfiction turned into Canon, then myths and legends.
| Gnosticism is basically a collection of bible au fanfiction, sometimes with thematic crossovers and shit thrown in for a good measure and i love it honestly
The term "Canon" even comes from religious debates and then it meant "communal agreement on what happened" or somesuch
| >>642028 I'll do you better: Christianity as a whole is just a canon divergent adaptation/reboot of Iudaism that somehow become more popular than the original
Their fans even officially went full continuity divorce and shit, as you do when seeing a shitty film adaptation or a sequel and just cancel it but it's every-fucking-where now
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| If you think about it humans has a knack for making up silly stories. It's not like they had book publishers back in the indus river valley civilization, or books at all, so any dumbass with a creative mind might just decide to carve their wild fantasy into a stone or sum shit. I haven't slept in 24 hours btw.