PugJesusFather of History and Father of Lies
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1856753/father-of-history-and-father-of-lies
Explanation: Herodotus was an ancient Greek writer who is often known as the “Father of History”, due to his works being the foundation for Western study of history from that point forward - attempting to meaningfully connect cause and effect, likelihood of events, sources, etc; rather than just chronicles of what happened in one region of one country, or blatant mythmaking with no foundation in fact.
… however, Herodotus is also sometimes known as the “Father of Lies”, because while his is the first major attempt at sorting all those issues out and forging them into a coherent narrative, he is… lacking established tools of the discipline, shall we say? His judgements as to what is and is not credible do not always pass the modern sniff-test - especially since his access to foreign sources and foreign lands would have been very limited at that time! So invariably, he passes along a few tall tales, especially about distant lands like India.
In Herodotus’s defense, he admits that he is only relaying what travelers have told him about the far and exotic land of India, and, while unstated, the story probably went through translation several times before finding its way to him, lmao.
lumpenproletariat“So they have these giant elephants that carry the gold from the mine”
Herodotus half listening: “Giant ants?”
TheReturnOfPEBWe are all aware that Marmots live underground and for the same they dig deep burrows and have a maze of interconnecting burrows underground. All this burrowing entails that they throw up a lot of earth. And the Deosai Plateau is said to be rich in Gold Dust deposits. The Marmots dug up the earth and included in this were fine Gold dust particles that were then taken by humans.
But which humans was the question again. Peissel claimed to have interviewed groups of people from Tribes living on the Deosai ie the Minaro, Maruts or Sonival tribes and apparently they confirmed this method of collection of Gold. And I have also been told Stories by people in the Kargil area about how the Marmots supposedly pile up Gold inside their burrows. So something is starting to make sense.
Herodotus's Legendary Fox Sized Gold Digging Ants
Herodotus was a famous Greek historian of the ancient times who lived around 500 BC and he was born in Asia Minor in the Persian Empire. He was referred to as the Father of History as he wrote a lot of history and tales of the unknown from lands far off. One of his most intriguing account was the on
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