Mr Spock 🖖My point, once again, is not that those ancient people
told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take
them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically
and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.
— JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
bdf2121cc3334b35b6ecda66e471@SpockResists I'm not convinced. The Greeks believed some weird shit in all sincerity, so I wouldn't put it past them to believe the Pantheon of Gods was literally at the top of Olympus until someone decided to go up and check.