The Epistemological Problems With Ancient Egypt's Scarabs

There is this obsessive literalism that the show has taken on where there is no room for imagination. There's no room for art or storytelling, it must literally be what's depicted and of course through their funhouse mirror whatever being depicted is literally an alien. I said at one of the alien kind of events that all religious experiences were misinterpreted alien encounters. They do this good like any stories or any legends or any piece of art and you know it's the certitude of their explanation always just sort of drives me crazy. It denies humanity as we know what to exist in every form. Why did certain animals create certain or were part of such myths? What other cultures have similar animals