What Are The World's Oldest Stories? - Documentary

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  @Fireoflearning · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  You may enjoy the audio in this video more by turning off YouTube's "Stable Volume" setting, located by pressing the cog symbol (The circle with notches around it).

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  @samgunn12 · 1 year ago

  It’s not surprising that so many ancient cultures were minutely familiar with the positions and luminosity of stars. It was the only thing on tv.

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  @sparkywilshire · 1 year ago

  Some dude ate a fish, and there was a tidal wave, and now he's blamed for eternity for the rising sea level.

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  @ariavachier-lagravech.6910 · 1 year ago (edited)

  My favourite part about Pleiades myth is that it is implied that human always keep track of the constellation before the (possible) dimming of the seven star, you cannot say something disappear unless you noticed its existence in the first place. The way I see it Pleiades myth shows that human are always fascinated by celestial bodies and like to keep track of it, and well we still do it we are still fascinated by stars, we still love observing it.

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  @aarspar · 1 year ago

  I live in Indonesia and there&apos;s an old and popular story titled Sangkuriang about the city of Bandung. The story is mainly the origin story of Mount Tangkuban Parahu, which now formed the northern parts of the city. Interestingly, there are mentions in the story about a huge lake situated in the current city of Bandung.<br><br>Then, around 1935, geological studies were conducted about the area in Bandung and there was found remnants of lakebeds and rock outcrops so large it encompasses the entire city. And the lake is believed to have existed between... roughly 126,000 and 20,000 years ago, which is absolutely nuts.

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  @FreedomToRoam86 · 1 year ago

  My tribe, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, immediately recognized elephants when the circus brought them in the late 1800’s, calling them in our language, Ni-ta, which means water meat. &nbsp;They come very early in our history, as there are few stories of them. But they would not have been recognizable just from skeletons. As trunks do not fossilize. And argues &nbsp;for earlier settlement by humans and later persistence by mammoths in the lower portion of North America

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  @mbvoelker8448 · 1 year ago

  You&apos;ve done an excellent job of balancing reasonable skepticism without dismissing genuine possibilities.

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  @GrayCatbird1 · 1 year ago

  The idea that there might be a folk story so inconceivably ancient that it exists among humans groups from completely different sides of the Earth, groups who were separated by their migrations and wanderings for eons, yet kept something of a shared link, is incredibly, absolutely amazing to ponder.

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  @YouTubalcaine · 1 year ago

  Gilgamesh may not be the oldest story, yet it survives after the people who wrote it, and even the language it was written in, are long dead. It seems that immortality was not entirely beyond his reach after all.

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  @al145 · 1 year ago

  Isn&apos;t one of the first lines of Gilgamesh something like &quot;in the earliest days, those old days before bread existed&quot; or something?

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  @Hippiechick11 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I wrote a paper in my North American Archeology class when I was in college where I tried to find any evidence of the ice age and coming into a newer land. &nbsp;I remember finding several that looked like they could be describing walls of ice, walking through a long corrider and coming out into a new land where they settled. &nbsp;It was fascinating to research.

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  @Verycereus · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66YCVbBVLUM&amp;t=1227">20:27</a> it is insanely wild that everyone across the planet saw six stars and were like naw there was seven at one point I know it

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