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onewithblankets · 1 year

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I know a lot of old myths now we know next to nothing about bc there’s so much cultural context surrounding them that was lost to time bc why would anybody want to write down common sense? But like do you think people thousands of years into the future will not know Humpty Dumpty was an egg.

#like how much of our children’s books with pictures and stuff and internet will survive for future historians #we document so much but what happens when that’s burned down #same way Greek and Norse gods have like 20 different retellings of myths and origin stories #figures like santa claus have dozens of movies books etc retelling how they came to be and what they do #what conclusions will historians draw based on what survives #I talk sometimes #okay fine I’ll finally make a queue tag

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