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Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
I undertook an intensive study of the Book of Genesis recently and got as far as most of the way through the story of Jacob and Esau. I began to notice in this story the many parallels with certain plot elements of the Mahabharata. I am planning to do a deep dive into the latter (I know a major undertaking but I also know I will do it) in order to become better informed at making a concise comparison between the two. As it is I suspect that the story of the patriarchs in Genesis probably has as a source the Mahabharata or a common, possibly oral, story framework of some kind. I suspect that Homer and composers of works in Greek mythology may have had access to something similar. There seems to be some kind of framework or "Ur" story that serves as a basis for the great epic narratives that I have encountered. This is more than just a coincidence or archetypal commonality I think.
We all live on the same Earth; in the same Solar System; in the same Milky Way galaxy and in the same local part of the observable Universe. These common cosmological conditions contains and provides the collective archetypes from which we all origin. This is our direct communication with the creation such.
These common cosmological conditions contains and provides the collective archetypes from which we all origin. This is our direct communication with the creation such and this is IMO why cultures all over the world describes these cosmological conditions very similar in their myths, sometimes with similar symbols and sometimes with different symbols but STILL describing the same force, object or deity.