Extract from The Gods, All of them (Religion)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, December 13, 2010, 02:51 (5093 days ago) @ David Turell

My personal theory, for which I have little evidence at all, is that these stories perpetuate because of one of three reasons. Either a)The diaspora of human civilization happened more recently than previously thought, bringing the previous culture with them(Which to me is the most unlikely of the scenarios) b) Human civilization is much OLDER than we give it credit for, and these stories are echoes of a past that we are only vaguely aware of c) There is a underlying grain of universal truth to these stories that has been intuitively grasped independently by humans at various stages of development around the globe. I tend to leans towards B, but as I stated, I only have minimal evidence to support that theory.