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  1. Aug 2020
    1. Raven Tales are the traditional human and animal creation stories of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

      This particular sentence reminds me of fables. At the end of all fables the story being told, teaches the readers a lesson. For example the Tortoise and the Hare, the fox and the grapes or the lion and the mouse.

    1. Many elements are shared by most Korean creation narratives. In one such episode, two gods grow flowers in a contest to decide who will rule the human world.

      These narratives roughly share the same plot of how the world came about. In Greek mythology its said the world was brought upon very similarly.

    1. A motif of father-against-son conflict was repeated when Cronus was confronted by his son, Zeus. Because Cronus had betrayed his father, he feared that his offspring would do the same, and so each time Rhea gave birth, he snatched up the child and ate it. Rhea hated this and tricked him by hiding Zeus and wrapping a stone in a baby's blanket, which Cronus ate. When Zeus was full grown, he fed Cronus a drugged drink which caused him to vomit, throwing up Rhea's other children, including Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, and the stone, which had been sitting in Cronus's stomach all this time.

      This piece of text is referenced in many places. I've heard several different stories about how the Greek gods came about with one being that Gaia was the master mind behind Zeus escape as a infant.

    1. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq).

      Found this interesting because I didn't know that a myths like this could be recovered because i thought that they were mainly spoken back then not written.

    1. This means, on some level, the brain remains momentarily active after a circulatory death. And while research in this space is ongoing, Dr Anstey does not believe people would be conscious at this point.

      Does it act in a manner as to which the person is conscious only on the inside like mind wise.