> a few thousand years back
replyI beg to differ, but okay. I don’t disagree to your allusions that there is a banality to mob idolatry, but that’s a discussion for other forums, ironically.
Idolatry is not the same as mythologizing. And I never said there is a banality to it, just that there could be. We don't have enough to know.
replyWe only have writing and, consequently, people who's names we know a few thousand years back.
replyA cult figure before writing would have more limited reach, and be forgotten because their name wasn't written down. But they'd still have been a cult figure.
The Buddha lived before writing in India. We have plenty of other stories that were passed by oral tradition before they were written down.
replyIt's an interesting hypothesis we can never prove. We don't even know how old names are.
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