For thousands of years, they had given themselves answers that all resembled one another: answers that referred to elaborate stories of spirits, deities, imaginary and mythological creatures, and other such similar things. From cuneiform tablets to ancient Chinese texts; from hieroglyphic writing in the pyramids to the myths of the Sioux; from the most ancient Indian texts to the Bible; from African stories to those of aboriginal Australians, it was all a colorful but basically quite monotonous flow—of Plumed Serpents and Great Cows, of irascible, litigious, or kindly deities who create the
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