why do all cultures have roughly the same exact myths?

why do all cultures have roughly the same exact myths? tree of life, two original human beings, fruit of the tree that gives eternal life or the ability to reproduce, creation over a week's worth of time. a great flood that destroyed almost everything on earth.

and many other similarities. surely it can't all be a coincidence? it's scary bros... what did the first human beings on earth experience that we will never have any idea about? do we have a creator? are we just an experiment to some higher being we can't even being to understand? to a colony of ants born in a lab to be studied, scientists are gods. yet they will never comprehend them.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because everything is just a copy of Hinduism.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      good morning sirs

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This.
      Abram = brahma
      Sara = Sarasvati

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's not how etymology works

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I mean...they don't tho

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Why do many Ancient Near Eastern cultures have remarkably similar myths?
      FTFY. Looks like you haven't read the literature of ancient cultures outside the ANE.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life
      >north america

      >The Oneidas tell that supernatural beings lived in the Skyworld above the waters which covered the earth.

      "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

      >This tree was covered with fruits which gave them their light, and they were instructed that no one should cut into the tree otherwise a great punishment would be given.

      "And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

      >seerer religion (west africa)
      >two trees (just like the bible which has two, one for immortality, one for wisdom.)

      >ancient china
      >In Chinese mythology, a carving of a tree of life depicts a phoenix and a dragon; the dragon often represents immortality. A Taoist story tells of a tree that produces a peach of immortality every three thousand years, and anyone who eats the fruit receives immortality.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I mean there's a couple instances of that. There's also plenty of instances or different cultures thought the earth was made on a turtles shell. So what? There are commonalities among nature that humans see and drive certain conclusions from. Trees just sprout from the ground. It's not a huge step from there.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why do many Ancient Near Eastern cultures have remarkably similar myths?
    FTFY. Looks like you haven't read the literature of ancient cultures outside the ANE.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life
      >north america

      >The Oneidas tell that supernatural beings lived in the Skyworld above the waters which covered the earth.

      "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

      >This tree was covered with fruits which gave them their light, and they were instructed that no one should cut into the tree otherwise a great punishment would be given.

      "And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

      >seerer religion (west africa)
      >two trees (just like the bible which has two, one for immortality, one for wisdom.)

      >ancient china
      >In Chinese mythology, a carving of a tree of life depicts a phoenix and a dragon; the dragon often represents immortality. A Taoist story tells of a tree that produces a peach of immortality every three thousand years, and anyone who eats the fruit receives immortality.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths

      >philippines
      One year, when the rainy season should have come, it did not. When the river dried up, the people dug into its grave, hoping to find the soul of the river. They struck a great spring, which angered the river gods. It began to rain and the river overflowed its banks. The resulting flood wiped out all of humanity save for two survivors, Wigan and Bugan, who repopulated the earth once the waters receded.

      >thailand
      according to the creation myth of those Tai people folktales, were the first man and woman created by the supreme god, Phu Ruthua (ผู้รู้ทั่ว). A thousand years passed, their descendants were wicked and crude as well as not interested in worshiping the supreme god. The god got angry and punished them with a great flood. Fortunately, some descendants survived because they fled into an enormous magical gourd.

      this one is literally genesis 3. it's not even funny at this point bros, it's just scary.

      • 1 year ago
        Sharath

        >this one is literally genesis 3. it's not even funny at this point bros, it's just scary.

        Stop taking things so literally.

        >Proverbs 1:5-7
        >let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance, for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life
        >north america

        >The Oneidas tell that supernatural beings lived in the Skyworld above the waters which covered the earth.

        "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

        >This tree was covered with fruits which gave them their light, and they were instructed that no one should cut into the tree otherwise a great punishment would be given.

        "And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

        >seerer religion (west africa)
        >two trees (just like the bible which has two, one for immortality, one for wisdom.)

        >ancient china
        >In Chinese mythology, a carving of a tree of life depicts a phoenix and a dragon; the dragon often represents immortality. A Taoist story tells of a tree that produces a peach of immortality every three thousand years, and anyone who eats the fruit receives immortality.

        I am this anon (

        >Why do many Ancient Near Eastern cultures have remarkably similar myths?
        FTFY. Looks like you haven't read the literature of ancient cultures outside the ANE.

        ). I was not implying that there is NO overlap on these matters between cultures within and outside of the ANE. There is some overlap, and in a few cases, it is remarkable (especially with flood myths). What I am conveying is twofold:

        1. Commonalities decrease in weight and frequency between civilizations separated by great distances.

        2. OP's assertion that "all cultures have roughly the same exact myths" is wildly exaggerative.

        That is all. Carry on.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          bro look.
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Trentren_Vilu_and_Caicai_Vilu
          since i made two posts about 1)tree of life and 2)flood myths, i decided to take a look at 3)creation myths. i literally picked a random one, and this is from argentina. so we got pretty much the same story in all continents. look what it says:

          >It is said that after Caicai awoke from his years-long slumber, he became enraged because of the ungratefulness that men showed for every gift given to them by the sea, and desired to punish humanity and to incorporate all terrestrial life to his dominions. Caicai used his fish-shaped tail to hit the water, causing a great flood, since Caicai ordered the waters to flood the valleys and hills, and to bring all its inhabitants to the bottom of the sea.

          yet again, flood meant to destroy all humans after they're not obedient or grateful enough to their gods:

          >5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created---people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

          i believe there are two types of stories.

          one: stories that all stem from one truth. then they played a worldwide telephone game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) and we got all the different versions of the same story.

          2) stories made up from scratch. to explain all the other unrelated ones. these were probably created like joseph smith created mormonism (for clout and prostitutes) or because they served a certain purpose in that period of time (Christianity and zoroastrism) both created to fundamentally reform the way of life of the society of that time. anyway, made from nothing or maybe schizophrenia or hundreds of other reasons

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            random west african religion i found.

            >Faro, the other male twin, who had assumed the form of twin fish, was sacrificed to atone for Pemba and purify the earth. Faro was cut into sixty pieces which fell to the earth where they became trees. Mangala restored Faro to life giving him now the form of a human, and sent him down to earth in an ark made from his placenta. With him came four pairs of male and four pairs of female twins who became the original ancestors of mankind, all made from Faro's placenta. The ark also held all the animals and plants, which also carried the male and female life force. Sourakata followed with the first sacred drum made of the sacrificed Faro's skull which he played to bring rain. When the rain did not come, the ancestral smith came to earth and with his hammer, he struck a rock and then the rain came.

            Faro created all the world that mankind has come to know from the descendants of Mangala's original egg seeds. He caused the land to flood to wash away the impure seed of his brother, Pemba. From this flood, only the good were saved, sheltered by Faro's ark.

            clearly going over the great flood and all the other common themes with uncanny similarity.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >one: stories that all stem from one truth
            common origin
            but consider that some of these myths are reinserted into narrative to keep them alive

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Flood myths are super easy to explain.

        >99% of human civilizations grew up around rivers or the ocean.
        >flooding is common as shit
        >super-catastrophic flood nearly wrecks everything
        >a few generations later: "Dude, do you remember when that massive flood wrecked the WHOLE WORLD?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      did CHG/Iran_N (ANE descendants) influence their fellow ANE descendants

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Japan doesn't
    I'm not even sure that China has one

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think Kissinger wrote that China didn't have a creation myth since all its origin stories were about restoring societal order after the previous dynasty had fallen

  5. 1 year ago
    Sharath

    >Genesis 4:26
    >Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.

    It is an echo, a remnant of ante-deluvian times.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    agrarian societies created strong centers of culture with trade and migration they influenced and overshadowed less developed cultures
    + agrarian societies created first states
    so created firs power-hungry imperialists

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >why do all cultures have roughly the same exact myths?

    Nomadic Indo-Aryans figured out how to ride horses way before anyone else allowed them to play the role of pre-cursor race to basically every people habituating Europe to India, giving them a massive influence over their cultural and religious development, as well as the ability to transmit and transport ideas in a way previously unheard of or impossible.

    With that said though; some of that shit just actually happened. Simple as.
    The great flood for instance happened. The "but" being that the world wasn't completely immersed, but it was more of a global warming situation. The final scraps of ice-age glaciation melted, retreated, and with it came permeant coastal flooding and the disappearance of entire lands, flooding rivers, with the changing environment probably escalated the necessity of agriculture. People had been living in a somewhat consistent climate for over 190,000 years and then suddenly it ended.
    The "trees of life" could also be several things. We live in a "post-tree" world where most forests are somewhat immature, having been felled down by humans, with the trees within them having largely not reached their full adult sizes or rates of production. We live in a biosphere of stunted trees regularly culled in their adolescents; the implication being that trees probably could be producing greater quantities of fruit and nut, doing a better job at stabilizing our environment, bringing greater fertility, but that's an impossibility with how society functions.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >young forest theory?
      I can buy it

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they are come from same root

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not all cultures do. There were common themes in pagan mythology in places intersecting with the Roman Empire. Christianity is heavily based on Greek, Roman, Persian, Egyptian, Assyrian mystery cults. It's basically a israeli version of pagan mystery cults. It would be downright odd if israelites never invented a version of these mystery cults that were all the rage in the surrounding cultures at the time.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    all these cultures existed on the same planet with seasons, the sky, plants and animals and so on.
    there is some proof that some beliefs are incredibly ancient, far more than thought maybe 10000 BCE stemming from a moderately advanced culture lost to history.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >modern man has existed for over 250,000 years
    >historical record only goes back about 10,000 years at most, less in most places
    The obvious answer is that there were earlier civilizations than those currently accepted in modern archaeology, and the beliefs of these earlier civilizations spread to the successor civilizations that make up what we know as antiquity.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it all has the same source, namely Adam himself.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When you compare the modern human to an animal, something doesn't seem right, but then again I've seen a monke browsing instagram, so maybe it do be like that. Idk.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      fugg

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      http://www.macroevolution.net/index.html

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >monkey literally looking at other monkeys that are better then him and having more fun then him on instagram
      Mfw

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >why do all cultures have roughly the same exact myths? tree of life, two original human beings, fruit of the tree that gives eternal life or the ability to reproduce, creation over a week's worth of time. a great flood that destroyed almost everything on earth.

    Because all these events have happened. Noah's sons told the stories to their descendants who told them to their descendants etc. It got corrupted in time and gave birth to different myths.

    The true historical record was later written down by Moses in the book of Genesis in 1513 BC.

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