Im explaining the thing. What it means to them. Modern comic books are a close analogue to how ancient people understood their mythologies. How modern people understand their mythologies.

You have these multiple iterations/retellings/translations if these stories with the ‘same’ characters coming from different cultural contexts. Why does the original necessarily take primacy?

Fuck, even ancient rome and its empire, where the big part of christian myth takes place is largely mythologized at this point. There is a verifiable real version that existed and we can verify many details of, but what is remembered and used is largely a fantasy. Even the aesthetics are not ‘true’ to any period or popular style of the original. Go show a ‘return’ statue pervert an ancient statue of venus with what chemical analysis tells us is the original paint job, tits and all. He’ll try to fucking kill you.

The original story does not matter. Even the ‘return’ is not a desire to reproduce the original, it is a desire to create an imagined world without the courage to admit new things are possible or we can have better. Its an emotional aesthetic not an actual reasoning.

Any belief about any oft reinterpreted emotoonally charged body of knowledge is the same. Nobody actually cares about the truth. I take it from the response youre a christian. If a middle aged palestinian dude wearing plants on his head descended from the sky on a beam of light accompanied by a heavenly choir of such beauty you fell to your knees and wept, then grabbed a child and told you in a language you had never heard but somehow understood told you to rape that child, would you? Fucking of course not. Youre probably not a fucking monster. Youd find a reason that isnt really your messiah. Because it isnt. Thats not what you believe in. I hope thats not what you believe in; harder than id like to assume that these days.