All we have are scriptures and texts that could have been a series of meme that built/improved from eachother but lost the common knowledge between the generations that it was fictional.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    This is what happens over time with people remembering history that they start to attribute a lot to a single person. More recent example of this is George Washington which is given more credit that he deserves for creating the US.

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      And Reverend David Rice gets no credit despite handing either Jefferson or Madison well over a million dollars to fund the damn thing.