> oral traditions
People can't even be orally consistent over 100 years.
There's no such thing as oral traditions that are anything more than 100's of years old.
We can watch fiction stories that were written down evolve at the 100 year speed.
People can't even be orally consistent over 100 years.
There's no such thing as oral traditions that are anything more than 100's of years old.
We can watch fiction stories that were written down evolve at the 100 year speed.
Yes stories evolve, but there is a core that makes them unique, which can be traced almost like DNA. There is real evidence that a lot of fairy tales are thousands of years old.
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-or...
https://theconversation.com/finding-meteorite-impacts-in-abo...
>He said his people were forbidden from going near the craters, as that was where the fire-devil ran down from the sun and set the land ablaze, killing people and forming the giant holes.
Australian Aboriginal mythology attributes every geographical landmark to the action of some kind of spirit in the dreamtime. These rocks are three sisters who ran away from their family and were turned to stone. This river was formed by a giant snake. The vast majority of the stories are, of course, just made-up guesses, so there's a pretty uphill battle to make a convincing case that one isn't.
A crater, well, it looks like what you get when you throw a rock into the sand, so that part of the myth is an obvious guess, that it was caused by some big force acting from above.