We read Storybooks all the time, but in the Ancient World there were not so many. Printing Presses did not yet exist, and people had to rely on Scribes to write the books. Popular books in the Ancient World: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Epics of Gilgamesh, the Egyptian Book of Coming Forth by Light (funerary text buried with Mummies), the Old and New Testaments, the Koran, the Amduat, the Pyramid Texts (written on the walls inside Pyramids), etc.
What we do not realize is the importance of Characters in those stories. In Ancient Times, Characters like Jehovah, Jesus the Christ, Osiris, Quetzalcoatl, etc. were of major social importance. Their lives formed the basis for Sciences explained as Stories -- Astronomy, Physics, Evolution, Medicine, Philosophy, Justice, etc.
Today we read a book and throw it into the Recycling Bin.
M7 2019.
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