theres many possiblilitys why theres similaritys.
god's word put in a different ways for different people
if they were used for control of the masses they could be building off of other systems that worked.
If someone wanted to created effects in the sociaty they saw desirable they may notice that another region has a story they use to teach their kids/adults to act desirable, so they may modifiy it to their own region.
also the story might be just what works, so different people might of came up with them seperatly.
__________________  remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll |