Before a culture adopts the use of writing, when its knowledge is transmitted exclusively through oral means, it can very easily revise its history. It’s not intentional, but it is inevitable; throughout the world, bards and griots have adapted their material to their audiences and thus gradually adjusted the past to suit the needs of the present.
queey whether this is not true of written history as still scribed by humans inteeprwted thru their biased bayesian updaters / neural networks
