Labster Wrote:There are other examples, like how people like to link different cultures' narratives about mega floods together, and say they are a memory of that one time the Black Sea flooded. Of course if you're Graham Hancock, you say that there's was actually a global flood event, something something Atlantis. Floods are pretty common, though; people saying that this particular mountain exploded is a precise fact.I've read a theory that the global flood myths come from the end of the last Ice Age (Estimates are that sea levels have risen around 400ft/122m since then. loads of communities that had been built neat/on the coasts back then are now utterly drowned.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Later incarnations of Sailor Moon have started portraying the moon folk as humanoid alien refugees who settled the moon because the Earth was already inhabited, unlike the earliest versions, where they are humans who somehow "magically" happened to develop and found a civilization on a dead world with no biosphere. Since we're taking Serenity I's claim to be a goddess literally (and we're explicitly using original anime continuity), then the foundation of the myth would probably be something along the lines of a "chosen people". Humans obviously couldn't evolve on the moon, so Serenity or a predecessor (serial reincarnation?) must have taken a population from Earth to the moon to be her people there. There would certainly be no small amount of arrogance built in, which as the Moon Kingdom grew in power would probably cause problems with diplomacy. "She chose us, and we grew to fill the system, while you're still stuck on your one planet." (And if the Kingdom's rise from "small colony" to "interplanetary power" happened fast enough, there would certainly be resentment on the part of the Earthbound nation or nations, which ties in nicely to the SM backstory.)I recall a fanfic or two that suggested the Moon Kingdom was settled by Juraiians