There are seven civilizations that were the progenitors of the various other civilizations that formed from people who had split off from them.
Each of these cradle civilizations had a foundational mythology that all offshoot civilizations had taken with them, and transformed into new variants of the original mythology.
For example, European mythologies and religions all originate from those of Egypt and Mesopotamia, hence all the similarities that exist between the hostorical myths and religions of Europe, North Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and North Africa, basically all the places where classical civilizations of Greece and Rome has colonized or conquered (under great leaders like Alexander and Caesar).
These mythologies and religions bled in with those of the more Eastern Asian and Southern Asian mythologies and religions, he certainly why there's a lot of overlap, especially in location where both racial civilizationa had historucally held dominance (such as places colonized or conquered by ghenghis khan) though much less so than in the places where only one or the other held dominance (rare places like Britain and France).
Perrenialism essentially connects all the religions and mythologies of Eurasia and North Africa together as having all come from a common ancestor mythology/religion, one that had both evolved over time (towards monotheism) and diverged into various splinter myths/faiths.
Hence all the commonalities, like ugly primordial giants being killed off by a younger generation, humans being crafted out of some inanimate substance and modeled after the Gods, serpents as the symbol of night, evil, and temptation, a world doomed by a woman's curiosity, a great sacrifice to bring power to humanity, a great flooding of the world to cleanse it of its hubris, a hero characterized by both great strength and frightening rage who is made to suffer under a vow for the sake of a crime he had once committed, a weakling being placed into the body of a great and divine being before coming out with a divine power, and more.
All of these exist within Christianity, but also within Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse, and Slavic folklore.
The hero of strength and rage living under a vow he took to atone for his sins, he could be Samson, or Hercules, or Cu Cullain, the giants could be the Nephilim, or titans, or formorians, or jotunar, the serpent could be the serpent of eden, or apep the sun eater, or jormounger the one who bites at the roots of the world tree, the flood could be a reference to the biblical cleansing, or to the Greek gods putting out the fires of earth wirh a constant deluge, or the Norse flood when the world of fire got too close to the world of ice.
Paradoxical003 -1 points 2.7 years ago
It goes further than that.
There are seven civilizations that were the progenitors of the various other civilizations that formed from people who had split off from them.
Each of these cradle civilizations had a foundational mythology that all offshoot civilizations had taken with them, and transformed into new variants of the original mythology.
For example, European mythologies and religions all originate from those of Egypt and Mesopotamia, hence all the similarities that exist between the hostorical myths and religions of Europe, North Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and North Africa, basically all the places where classical civilizations of Greece and Rome has colonized or conquered (under great leaders like Alexander and Caesar).
These mythologies and religions bled in with those of the more Eastern Asian and Southern Asian mythologies and religions, he certainly why there's a lot of overlap, especially in location where both racial civilizationa had historucally held dominance (such as places colonized or conquered by ghenghis khan) though much less so than in the places where only one or the other held dominance (rare places like Britain and France).
Perrenialism essentially connects all the religions and mythologies of Eurasia and North Africa together as having all come from a common ancestor mythology/religion, one that had both evolved over time (towards monotheism) and diverged into various splinter myths/faiths.
Hence all the commonalities, like ugly primordial giants being killed off by a younger generation, humans being crafted out of some inanimate substance and modeled after the Gods, serpents as the symbol of night, evil, and temptation, a world doomed by a woman's curiosity, a great sacrifice to bring power to humanity, a great flooding of the world to cleanse it of its hubris, a hero characterized by both great strength and frightening rage who is made to suffer under a vow for the sake of a crime he had once committed, a weakling being placed into the body of a great and divine being before coming out with a divine power, and more.
All of these exist within Christianity, but also within Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse, and Slavic folklore.
The hero of strength and rage living under a vow he took to atone for his sins, he could be Samson, or Hercules, or Cu Cullain, the giants could be the Nephilim, or titans, or formorians, or jotunar, the serpent could be the serpent of eden, or apep the sun eater, or jormounger the one who bites at the roots of the world tree, the flood could be a reference to the biblical cleansing, or to the Greek gods putting out the fires of earth wirh a constant deluge, or the Norse flood when the world of fire got too close to the world of ice.