A work · 800 BC · Antiquity
The story told again
Myths are not stories people tell once. They are stories with a fixed shape that get told to the same audience on a schedule.
The oldest parasocial structure there is: fixed, repeatable, known in advance, and useless for anything except the purpose it was made for. Everything after is a variant.
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