PART IV — MYTHOLOGY AS DATA: DECODING THE TELEPHONE GAME

The provided text, an excerpt from “Universal Myths as Civilizational Fossils,” proposes that myths are not merely superstitions but are compressed data encoding survival logic from prior cycles of societal rise and collapse. The author argues that when civilizations fail, their physical artifacts and languages vanish, but their core structural memories survive universally as myths carried by the human mind. The text formalizes seven recurrent mythic archetypes, such as the Myth of the Fallen City (a warning against hubris) and the Myth of the Reset Flood (a mechanism for psychological cleansing), explaining that these are structurally necessary because the same collapse mechanics recur across deep time. These universal stories, or cognitive fossils, are essential for reconstructing the history of previous cycles and understanding evolutionary pressures. The author concludes that myths spread not through cultural contact but because human cognitive architecture and survival pressures are universally shared.


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