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In response to the student, Jiang says myth-making is a natural human process for justifying hierarchy, so similar myths may arise with or without direct influence.
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Comparative Mythology
In response to the student, Jiang says myth-making is a natural human process for justifying hierarchy, so similar myths may arise with or without direct influence.
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Jiang says comparative mythology should assume influence among connected cultures, but exact influence is less important than each culture's local needs, superiority claims, and internal adaptation.
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"so my first question is like earlier you mentioned that there are three ancient civilizations that are very close to each other like Egyptian..."
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"but to be honest like are there any connections between the their distance and how they made all of this myth and their methodologies..."
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"that's a really good question so it's almost impossible for us to answer how much they influence each other okay because even if they..."
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"influenced by American popular culture probably a lot but how much okay also whatever influence that you have you still also have your own..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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