when you have myths, there will often be a factual basis for them
No time to read the whole article - what I've skimmed sounds plausible - but a wholehearted YES for this.
I think it's fascinating that over the last twenty or thirty years or so we've put a lot of the monsters back into maps. Dragons? Komodo dragons are pretty convincing. Giant Kraken? Giants? (recently saw pictures of the Russian guy who, at 2,85m, really made everyone else look out of place.) And let's not forget The Flood and various fire and brimstone events - collective memory twists and shapes memory, but that core of truth is all too often present if you're willing to look for it.
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No time to read the whole article - what I've skimmed sounds plausible - but a wholehearted YES for this.
I think it's fascinating that over the last twenty or thirty years or so we've put a lot of the monsters back into maps. Dragons? Komodo dragons are pretty convincing. Giant Kraken? Giants? (recently saw pictures of the Russian guy who, at 2,85m, really made everyone else look out of place.) And let's not forget The Flood and various fire and brimstone events - collective memory twists and shapes memory, but that core of truth is all too often present if you're willing to look for it.