Viral Mythology
By Larry Flaxman & Marie D. Jones
How the Truth of the Ancients Was Encoded and Passed Down Through Legend, Art, and Architecture. New Page Books, 2014.
Summary of Viral Mythology book by Larry Flaxman & Marie D. Jones
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.
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What do you get from this book? How art and literature of ancient times holds fundamental truths about past civilizations
Early humans didn’t have computers, but still put in effort to get their knowledge out in the world
We share our wisdom to progress as a species, whether it’s through biological inheritance or some plain old chit-chat
The imagery of the ancients often contains symbolic shapes that evolved over time in their various art forms
Writing became an efficient means of communication, revealing similarities in the stories of otherwise different cultures
Legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes contain core ideas about cultures, even though they’ve been seen as pure entertainment
Surprising discoveries of archeoenigmas may be clues to past civilizations being more advanced than we give them credit for
To avoid persecution, or worse, secret societies had to encode what they knew in texts, rituals, and even in cards
The information that goes viral today isn’t always super meaningful, but it represents the world as we know it
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Who should read Viral Mythology book
- Sociologists
- archaeologists
- philosophers
- anyone interested in how info was spread in ancient times
About the author of Viral Mythology
Larry Flaxman
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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