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Originally Posted by latepaul
Oral tradition. Storytelling has been around forever, religious and otherwise. Recently, last few thousand years, we've been writing them down.
Cute kid. Wonder if there's a preacher in the family.
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Yep. Homer's works were passed on by word of mouth for example long before the Greeks actually wrote them down. Many rhymes like "Red sky in morning sailor take warning, red sky at night sailor's delight" came from our need to remember things in a time when writing wasn't a big thing. The druids wrote things on leaves (we still call the pages of a book leaves) and the written word had a magical effect on earlier peoples. We still ask "how do you
spell that?" when an unknown word or name is mentioned to us.