Reconstructing The Ancient Story

The Ancestral Tradition Hypothesis, founded on the belief in an Ancient Story that appears to have been handed down with great care, well-preserved in the regions we know that the culture appeared, is known almost entirely from Ancient Mythology.

What this means is that by its fundamental nature — that is, myth — is inherently speculative. We cannot know for certain the age of most of the elements in myth. We cannot know for sure what is fantasy, what is legendary, and what might contain a piece of historical truth.

Nonetheless, we must try.

The Ancestral Tradition is founded in well-documented mythical traditions preserved by multiple distinct cultures. (So we have a wealth of information to go on.) However, in the case of mythology, that is not always a good thing because it tells us that the tradition is well-developed.

Using all of the pieces that we have covered thus far, I will attempt to reconstruct what I like to call The Ancient Story of Humanities Prehistoric Past. There are too many details in this story that are missing, unverified, founded on unstable facts and evidence, and therefore highly speculative.

This is the nature of a great deal of the extant information.

Sources of the Ancestral Tradition

Conclusions

As I have discussed at length, a wealth of inconclusive evidence does not add up to positive confirmation. But at the same time, a great deal of definitively conclusive evidence amidst a treasure trove of circumstantial evidence does add weight to an interpretation, increasing its likelihood of being true.

I believe that the possibility of an Ancestral Tradition deserved a more thorough investigation, strictly on the basis of evidence. There are far too many connections to be pure consideration, which appears only to be confirmed the deeper we go.

In this reconstruction I adhere myself as closely to the available evidence as possible: the general themes of the world mythology that we have covered, especially when there is agreement among disparate myths and legends. This cultural affirmation in myth, in conjunction with the archaeological evidence that we do have available, and always weighed precisely against the scales of all solid metrics in scholarship.