@ fredsbend Similarities in myth come with the practice of story-telling. Any good writer shall tell you that the key is not in the similarities but in the differences. Literature circulates the same ideas, and stories borrow plots in order to convey ideas. The fact of similarity between myths should not be a cause of treating such things with an air of superiority on our part. The story's meaning eclipses the question of fact precisely because it contextualizes facts within a greater scope.