>>15987333The tradition of oralism predates scribing by several hundreds of thousands of years. It is because of oralism that scribes could come to be.
Our written stories are simply a physical reflection of these oralisms, and likewise as dynamic in their interpretation as oral tales; however static in their medium.
For with written history, you'd only need a reader who understands the script; but even in parsing said story, the reader can find multiple interpretations depending on their own perspective and realms of knowledge.
Take for instance this; "the first modern civilization, the Mesopotamians wrote about myths and epics about Deluges, heroes, and gods from the sky." Where did these stories come from? Did they simply dream up such concepts and commit it to text?
That is not my belief, for as much as creativity and writing is a luxury in the present; in the past, it was a means of recording, expensive and required a higher level of knowledge not applicable to the entirety of society.
So where did the stories come from? Simple, from oralism of the generations before them, and before them, and before them; passed down, slightly distorted over time with each telling.
What began as a flooding of flatlands and lowlands evolved into a tale of a global deluge felt by all mankind, that drowned every living thing, save for a few survivors.
Our species, depending on when you when you want to be specific, dates back from 500,000 to 1 million years back; and in that, we were constantly observing the world around us, and telling one another what we had seen and experienced. And it only took until about 7000 years ago to actually put down these thousands of years of visual experience into a permanent and readable means.
Which; again, leads us back to the dual situation of.
1. We truly saw some weird shit as a species that we do not truly understand, but attempt to.
OR
2. We were all very very high for the entirety of our existence.
