>>98485855I didn't say exactly the same, but they also each had prophecies, the main god causing the birth in miraculous circumstances people thought would be impossible, a folk saviour figure who did incredible things coming from it, and shit. There are earlier similar figures, too.
>>98485872>>98485880I was joking about ripoff and I've never seen Zeitgeist. More seriously I highly doubt some one to one inspiration for every little detail of those stories exists in older stories. Do I think the people who wrote these stories were influenced by earlier stories they'd heard as kids, though, maybe unknowingly? That's the most likely and logical thing, yeah.
Also that link is shit, it doesn't present any evidence or analysis it's all just people who believe that particular religion saying loudly their religion must be true. There are Hindu, Shinto, Islamic, Scientologist, Heaven's Gate, and so on books and sites that say the same thing about those religions, and some people made the same arguments about "heresy" against the Greek gods and shit.
Also how is the Gilgamesh story "more distorted" since it's the earlier written form of an oral tradition story? Unless you have a recording of the person who first came up with the story telling it for the forst time, you don't know which version is closer to the original story. That doesn't make any sense. Nobody knows when that myth was first made up.
Long story short no not every new belief that pops up is an actual ripoff of earlier beliefs like not every Disney film is actually a ripoff of an anime. But often the writers had heard some version or another of older tales and things slip in, most stories aren't totally originally. Doesn't actually mean they're stolen just that some themes and character types and plots have been around for a long time.
