It baffles me how ancient people were able to come up with such detailed stories, characters, myths, rituals, etc. It’s one thing to look at lighting and assumes a god is controlling it, it’s another thing to come up with that god’s entire life story and an entire pantheon with hundreds of gods interacting with one another. How were the ancient people able to come up with such claims without any shred of evidence? Even modern day writers struggle to come up with such detailed and complex stories. Can someone explain to me how myths, religions came to be and how the ancient people were able to come up with all of that and how it became popular and why the people at the time believe such insane claims without questioning them?
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I remember reading that one of the possible reasons that people saw fairies, trolls and such, was because their food was often mouldy, which could have caused hallucinations. From that perspective I can imagine that they often experienced their gods/demons and tried to rationalise it by developing a background story over time, i.e. myths, religion and so forth.
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