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Viral Mythology

Viral Mythology

By Marie D. Jones & Larry Flaxman

How the Truth of the Ancients Was Encoded and Passed Down Through Legend, Art, and Architecture. New Page Books, 2014.

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A brief summary of Viral Mythology

Exploring the ways in which people of the past spread their knowledge and information to one another, sometimes across great distances, by embedding it in stories, song, and visual forms so that it isn’t lost to humanity.

Key insights in Viral Mythology

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What do you get from this book? How art and literature of ancient times holds fundamental truths about past civilizations
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Early humans didn’t have computers, but still put in effort to get their knowledge out in the world
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We share our wisdom to progress as a species, whether it’s through biological inheritance or some plain old chit-chat
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The imagery of the ancients often contains symbolic shapes that evolved over time in their various art forms
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Writing became an efficient means of communication, revealing similarities in the stories of otherwise different cultures
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Legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes contain core ideas about cultures, even though they’ve been seen as pure entertainment
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Surprising discoveries of archeoenigmas may be clues to past civilizations being more advanced than we give them credit for
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To avoid persecution, or worse, secret societies had to encode what they knew in texts, rituals, and even in cards
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The information that goes viral today isn’t always super meaningful, but it represents the world as we know it
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read Viral Mythology

Sociologists • archaeologists • artists • philosophers • anyone interested in how info was spread in ancient times

About the author of Viral Mythology

Marie D. Jones is an author, lecturer, scriptwriter, and radio show host. She has published numerous books including Destiny vs. Choice and Looking for God in All the Wrong Places and contributed to several History Channel shows. ParaExplorers.com is the organization she runs with Larry Flaxman, who is himself a speaker with many appearances on television, as well as an author. Flaxman also founded ARPAST, one of America’s largest paranormal investigation teams and is a blogger for Intrepid Magazine.

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