how do cultures with no type of connections have the same types of creatures in there stories?

Question

how do cultures with no type of connections have the same types of animals in there stories and etc

you go to a remote village in asia, south america etc they all have some type of story about a dragon or a big foot like creature why and how if they have never seen each other

ok you find a village in the middle of asia one in siberia, australia,africa, europe, north america and south america tell me how the people would communicate

europeans didnt know anything about the america's or australia so that gets rid of them

and the people that said about trade going on in the america's and asia if thats the case did you hear about anyone going from asia to the america's in the past before the 1700's

Answer 1

Your assumption that these are "cultures with no type of connections" is false.

Answer 2

There are lots of different reasons for that.

One is that all those mythological creatures like dragons and fairies, are real. But "educated" people don't like to believe that.

So some people believe that its instincts. You know like, people are instininctively afraid of snakes, so they make up stories about horrible fire breathing serpents.

Also, I think that people used to find alot of prehistoric bones and things, like dinosaurs, and they started making up stories about how they got there. Since dinosaurs were all over the earth, different cultures had simmilar explanations for their remains.

Also, some people believe that all the different cultures of the world, came from one culture, and evolved to be what they are now. Mesopotamia was supposed to be the first civilization, so their mythology could have been transported orally all over the world, and passed to other cultures. So seemingly unrelated cultures may have a common origin.

Also, i think there was alot more interaction between cultures than we realize. I don't believe that Christopher Columbus was the first European in America, and Leif Erikson probably wasn't either. It's just not well documented. So people would travel, and see crazy things, and take the story home, and exaggerate, and elaborate, and you they'd have stories about dragons, and sea serpents, and mermaids and things. Or they would travel and hear stories about monsters, and tell the same stories when they got home, and the people at home would believe them.

Or maybe its all just a weird coincidence.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

there is no culture without connections. a) people make up stories to explain the unexplainable
b) some people take fiction and turn it to hearsay as if it were fact.
c)Trade routes always existed for these stories to change hands.
d)Traders would hear the stories and pass them on, with their own fiction, and cultural influences to bring them in.
e) Americans always knew about Asia. Native Americans are descended from Asians, and American immigrants are here well after Asia was found.

Answer 5

most cultures have the same type of stories and myths because they are mostly true but in the case of the Asia and the Americans there is evidence that native Americans and Asians were the same people it is believed that the native Americans crossed to America when the Bering strait was frozen so their cultures would be almost the same.

Answer 6

He said BEFORE the times of traid and international socializing... Back when Americans never even knew Asia existed, both countries had their own legends and tales of dragons to tell and share.

His question is: How can several other races and countries all be aware of something like dragons before any of them reached their first contact with eachother?


Dragons are real. ;) Bigfoot, I don't know. Seems like it, though. :P

Answer 7

Because they have seen each other and have been trading things for thousands of years.

Answer 8

Collective unconscious.
The human psyche thinks in symbols. Religious symbolism reflects psychological principles, and symbols are as common from one culture to another as the psychological principles that they represent.

Answer 9

And if you notice, they practically all have a religious leader, and a flood. Interesting, isnt it?

Answer 10

Because all people think the same.